4th grade pen pals from the other side of the country!

Below where this picture is taken, are pictures of all of my students' pen pals.  

We began having pen pals from California very close to the start of the school year.  My students are LOVING it!  What a great thing to get to know more about another place, different people, and learn the value of handwritten letters.  They get SO excited every time we get something in the mail from them.  Last Monday, we received a box from them containing a fleece scarf from each of their pen pals.  The students made them for the friends in Maine in hopes to keep them warm during our very cold Maine winter.  They cut the fleece into a scarf size strip then cut slits on the end and tied knots in them.  This is a picture Mrs. Gomez took of the fleece before her students made them... 

 There were all kinds of fun designs; camo, pink camo, black with brightly colored peace signs, butterflies, flowers, and others.  

We wanted to send them some "snow" from Maine, so we sent them some foam snowflake ornaments.  The students each added a design in glue and then we added glitter to them.  The students added their pen pal's name, their name and the year.  

I can't wait to see what the rest of the school year has in store for us!  Maybe we will continue our classes being pen pals after this year as well! :-)