ENGLISH PROJECTS' CORNER: PENPALS EXCHANGE

SKYPE SESSION WITH OUR POLISH FRIENDS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vM9uAJE7_A&feature=youtu.be

HAPPY EASTER FROM POLAND :)

2nd letter of Our new Russian friends:

Hello to boys and girls from Russia,

We a lot of things learned from your 1 letter, you are a very good class. We wanted to learn how you celebrated Halloween, Christmas? How do you celebrate this holidays in a class?

In the winter we often walked, we were cheerful, we played and had fun.

The last 2 weeks it was warm, but on March 17 it rained in the morning, and snowed after a while. Now it is not so warmly.

We would like to recognize you even closer, we like to communicate with you. You are cool .

We wait for your response letter :)

Your friends from Russia, 6^th A :З

New letter from Fontana:

3/19/14

Dear Pen Pals,

We have been having some trouble with receiving and sending e-mails so we were very happy to hear from you again. Carnival sounds very exciting! Do you have a swimming pool at your school? We don’t have a swimming pool, but we do have a basketball court and soccer field. Do you get to do lots of projects in your school? We do. Our teacher told us that we might get the chance to Skype with you in the future. We think that will be fun.

Since we last talked to you we have had many celebrations also. In February we celebrated Valentine’s Day. We exchanged cards, candy and teddy bears. We made cards for our reading buddies in kinder. We also celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Day. This day is important to us because Dr. King was a very famous Civil Rights leader, here in America. He fought for equal rights for all people. Another celebration we had in February was Presidents’ Day. We celebrate President’s Day in this month because two of our most famous presidents’ (Abraham Lincoln, and George Washington) birthdays are in this month.

We celebrated Read Across America on March 2, which was Dr. Seuss’ birthday. Dr. Seuss wrote many well known books including The Cat in the Hat. Our librarian invited professional hockey players to read to us. It was a great experience because we got their autographs. March 17, was St Patrick’s Day. On this day we usually wear green, but if we don’t, we can get pinched by our friends. We had Picture Day where all the sixth graders took a panoramic picture together. We have four new students in our classes. Our school had a penny drive and we collected over three thousand dollars to help cancer patients. We are going on vacation for Spring break and we will be back at school on March 31. When we return to school we will be doing our state testing. Do you have to take state tests? We look forward to learning how to Skype with you and will write to you again in April.

Sincerely,

West Randall 6^th Graders.

Our great friends from Poland:

California's friends new letter:

1/13/14

Dear Spain Pen Pals,

We received your letter/PPT. We are sorry we haven’t answered your letter right away. We have been very busy lately. Tio day sounds like lots of fun. We had a great Christmas too! One tradition that we do for Christmas that is similar to yours but slightly different is we have the Three Wise Men too. We call it Dia De Los Santos Magos and on this day some families will share a bread called a “Rosca” that has a tiny plastic baby called “El Nino Dios” inside of it. If you get a piece of the bread with the doll inside you are supposed to host a dinner in your home and invite everyone.

Another tradition we have here is that on Christmas morning we open our gifts from under brightly decorated Christmas trees, and then we have a feast with our families. Not only did we celebrate Christmas at home with our families, our whole school had a celebration too! It was called Winter Festival. We had fun. There were so many treats and games there and we also got a chance to sing and perform for our parents.

We were on vacation for three weeks after that. When we returned to school it was a new year. In our class we talked about New Year’s Resolutions and set new goals for ourselves. One of our goals is to try to write to you at least once a month. We would also like to spend more time with our kindergarten buddies. Our next holiday here is Dr. Martin Luther King Day. Dr. King was a very important civil rights leader who fought for freedom and equality for everyone. We will write to you again next month. Will your class do anything special in February for Valentines Day?

Sincerely,

West Randall 6^th graders.

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New friends from Russia!

Our last letters of the year from Poland, Argentina and Bugulma!

Poland children's letter.

Argentina children's letters.

5th B

Hello! How are you?

We want to tell you about Sacanta, our town. It is very small, but in spite of that it has two churches, two schools, one long and deep swimming pool. There are also many clothes shops, a library, a museum, a police station and much more…

Here we show you some pictures of Sacanta. The first is of the day that snowed and the second is our little lake where you can go fishing or have a barbecue at noon.

We expect a little note to tell us about your city.

We hope you liked our letter.

We are anxious and wait for your answer.

Bye, bye!!

5^th A

Hello Chidren! Thank you for your letter. How are you?

We are going to tell you about our idols. Most girls like Justin Bieber, Selena Gómez, Martina Stoessel (Violetta Tv series).

Most boys like sport stars like Lebron James, Michael Jordan, Kün Agüero and Djokovich.

We also like some programmes and channels like History, Discovery Channel, Disney Channel, The Simpsons, Solamente vos (Argentinian sopa opera), Jessi and Good luck Charlie.

Do you know them? Do you have the same idols?

Our school’s name is Ituzaingó.

We like Carnival and Halloween! And you?

Do you like football or basketball?

Do you like English?

What’s your favorite food? We like barbecue! It’s typical here in Argentina.

Can you play hockey? Can you swim?

We wait for your answer.

Good bye!!

P.S: In our previous letter the teacher forgot to tag Antonio’s name. He is the tallest boy you can see in the picture we sent you.

Bugulma 5thG grade children's letter.

Hello boys and girls!

Thank you for the nice pictures of celebrating Castanyada. They are very interesting.

We are all fine. It is winter in our town. Everything is in snow now. Our winter holidays will begin on the 29-th of December and last for 2 weeks. Before the New Year we’ll decorate our school. There will be a big New Year tree in our school gym. Every year our elder school children arrange a New Year party with fairy-tales for younger boys and girls.

We have a uniform at school (we wrote about it). Also students wear green ties. That means that we are the successors of Tatarstan. In Bugulma nobody wears what he wants. School uniform is a must. It is sad, because everybody must put on the same clothes. As PE uniform, we wear white T-shirts and black shorts. Also we have badges. In the mornings when we come to school we are checked if we put on badges. It is for our safety. There are our photos, form, and the stamp of the school.

There are a lot of plants in our classroom: geranium, fuchsia, begonia, and others.

It’s a pity, but we have no friends in Spain. We would like you to come to Russia.

We have a lot of subjects and they are very interesting. Our favorites are English, Geography and History of Russia. Usually we have 6 lessons. We come to school at 7.40 a.m. Every morning we do morning exercises. The lessons begin at 8 and finish at 1.25 p.m.

Have you got badges at school?

Is there a New Year Tree in your school?

Do you do morning exercises at school?

When do your lessons begin and finish?

What are your favourite subjects?

Hope to hearing from you soon.

Your Russian 6-form pen-friends.

Bugulma 6thB grade children's letter.

Hello from Russia!

We are 27 students from Bugulma. We staudy in the 5-th G form. There are 17 girls (Arina, 4 Alinas, 2 Nastyas, 2 Annas, Yana, Dasha, Liana, Vika, Eleonora, Katya, Evelina, and Tanya.) and 10 boys (Iliya, 2 Nikitas, Ilnaz, Ayaz, Erik, Evgeniy, Andrey, Danila, Alexander).

We like our school. We have 12 subjects in our timetable. Our favourite subjects are English, History, Maths, Russian and Tatar. There are two state languages in our republic: Russian and Tatar.

The most famous streets in Russia are Molodezhnaya, Lenina, Sovetskaya, Gagarina, Shkolnaya and others. As for typical food, there is a great variety of it. In our republic we like plov, noodle soup, meat dumplings (pelmeni), ishpishmak (a triangle-shaped pie with chopped peppered meat, potatoes and some onion). We like tea with sweet pastries.

People in Russia like New Year best of all. Students have 2-weeks holidays and adults don’t go to work for several days.

The most famous people in Russia are the president Vladimir Putin and the prime-minister Dmitry Medvedev.

We like to search the Internet, watch TV. We watch Disney, Russia, 1, Karusel and other channels.

Last week we celebrate Mother’s day in our class. We arrange a concert for our mothers and make a clip for them. We like to take part in different school activities. This school year we have already took part in the Battle of talents, where we sing and dance.

And what about you? Do you take part in school activities? What are your favorite holidays? What is interesting in your school?

Best wishes,

Your Russian pen-friends.

Let's learn more about Tatarstan and the school kids!

Hello, dear friends!

How are you? What’s the weather like in Spain now? In Russia it is raining.

This week we have a rest. Our autumn holidays began. The 2-nd term will start on the 11-th of November. And you? When will you have vacations?

We like our school. It hasn’t got name. It is called secondary state school №3 of Bugulma municipal region. Our school is big. There are 3 floors, two gyms, a canteen, an assembly hall and lots of classrooms in the school. There are different sport schools, swimming pools in our town too.

We would like to know about your school uniform. Do you wear a uniform at school? In our school we do. The colours of our school uniform are white and black. Also we wear green ties.

Last week we went to the military museum. We were told about three wars: the world Great Patriotic war, wars in Chechnya and Afghanistan. As you know, Russia won victory in the war with Germany in 1941-1945. A guide told us about life and families of citizens of our town, who took part in those wars. Many of them died. We liked the excursion very much, especially boys. We put parachutes and military clothes on, held guns, saw private photos and things.

We haven’t visited Spain. And have your ever been to Russia? Have you ever been to excursions with your class? Did you go to the countryside with your class?

You asked if we have got pets in our school. Unfortunately, we haven’t. We would like to have a small zoo and take care of animals. It would be great!

Good-bye. We’ll wait for your answer.

Your Russian pen-friends. Form 6B.

Look! New friends from California.

Dear Spain Pen Pals,

We hope that you are having a wonderful school year so far. We are a group of students from Fontana, California in the USA and we go to school at West Randall Elementary. Even though we’re 6^th graders and we go to an Elementary school, we’re still considered “Middle Schoolers”. We have three classes and three teachers in 6^th grade: Mr. and Mrs. Romero and Mrs. Beaty. .Our “homeroom teacher” is Mrs. Romero. There are 27 students in our class and our ages are from 10-12 years old. In our school we learn Language Arts, Math, Science, Music, Social Studies, and we get to do P.E.

We enjoy reading a lot at our school! This month we are having Storybook Character Day. We get to dress up as our favorite storybook character and do book reviews and other related activities for half of the day. Our school is creative and very different from other schools. What makes us creative and different from other schools is that teachers and students work together to make enjoyable activities. Is your school fun and creative? How many teachers do you have in your grade? What do you study or learn at your school? What’s the name of your school?

Sincerely,

West Randall 6^th graders.

Perth pen pals' letters

Dear Penpals

Good day, it is your Australian penpals here.

We really like your presentation, our favourite part was the picture of the holy church.

We would like to visit near bacerlona one day, so we would like to ask you what it is like to live in near bacelona?

We are your penpals Jesse and EE Hong from the school called Burrendah primary school.

Your penpals Jesse and Eehong.

Dear Pen pals,

G’day, it is your Australian Pen pals here.

We liked the part where the eggs were on the roof of the Dali museum because it was funny and we have never seen eggs on any house.

I’m just wondering how many Gaudi buildings are there?

Marzuk likes playing on his Ipad and I (Kefei) like playing soccer.

We hope to hear from you again soon!

From: Kefei and Marzuk.

Dear penpal,

G “day it is your Australian penpals .

We REALLY liked the Holy Family Church because it was a awesome design for the building.

What do you like about your life?

Why is the Holy Family Church called Holy Family Church?

What did you like about our slideshow?

We like trying out new food.

Me and Harrison love lego!!

From Josh and Harrison

Dear penpals,

Hello, this is your Australian penpals.

The thing I liked about your class presentation was that it was really interesting and the pictures were very colourful.

What time do you go to school,in the morning or in the afternoon ?What do you like about Barcelona?

My name is Chloe and my friend who’s helping out is called Taylah .Some of our interests are reading and doing art.

We hope that we can hear from you again!

From Chloe and Taylah.

Dear Penpal,

G’day it’s your fellow Australian Penpals.

We really loved your slide show because you showed us interesting buildings and because you wrote it in English for us. Our favourite thing was the giant fountain that changed colour.

What types of food do you like to eat? What are your favourite hobbies?

Let us introduce ourselves,Hi I’m Connor and I’m Shana. Connor likes bike ridding. Shana likes playing

with her Monster High Dolls. We hope to hear from you again.

From Connor and SHANA

Dear Penpals,

Good day ,it’s your Australian Penpals.

We really liked how you could write in English even though it is not your home language. We also liked how beautiful the buildings where in your presentation.

We would like to know what you do in your spare time and what is your favourite building in Barcelona ?

We enjoy reading, gymnastics, caring for animals and playing games in groups.

We live in WA Perth in a suburb called Willeton.

From Lilly and Sylvia J.

Dear Penpals,

G`day it`s your Australian Penpals here.

I really enjoyed the information about the church that is still being built this very instant.

What do you like to do in your everyday life?

How does it feel when your favourite football team wins the match?

My name is Matthew and I like all animals so does my best friend Troy. We have many species of animals in Australia like the red kangaroo which I have seen up close before.

We hope we hear from you again.

From   Matthew and Troy

Dear Penpals,

Hello, it is your fellow Australian penpals here.

We liked all the buildings that Gaudi built. We also liked that you could write in English and that is not your language that you write with.



We’ve been wondering how it is like to live near Barcelona and what do you do there that is fun and how do you play it? We would like to learn one of your games.

If you have been wondering, our name is Samit and Sans. We live in Perth. We are interested in flying our boomerangs.



We hope to hear from you again.

From Samit and Sans

This is a photo of our Perth' friends in Australia.

Look, we've got new friends from Russia!

We live in rostov region

Here you are the new e-mail from Poland.

Hey kids, finally we got news from Mauritanius School in Africa! We need to visit their blog in the following address:

http://www.lcbvenglish.blogspot.com.es/2013/10/loreto-college-bambous-virieux-mauritius.html

We've got three new letters, can you guess from which continents are them this time?

Hello children!! How are you?

We are students from Argentina. We are from a town called Sacanta and we would like to write to you.

Sacanta is a small town in Córdoba. Córdoba is in the centre of Argentina. Sacanta is very nice and quiet.

We are good friends, but we speak too much in class! In the afternoon, after school, we meet and eat ice cream. We also like sports very much: tennis, volleyball, skate, football, swimming and basketball.

Do you like the same sports? What do you do in your free time? What is the name of your city? Is it big? Is it quiet?

Please, write soon.

Best wishes,

5^th A

In the picture: Ana Paula, Julieta, Catalina, Franco, Manuela, Fernanda, Paulina, Nico, Carolina, Pilar, Lara, Flor, Angel, Gaspar, Lucas, Valentín, Jorge, Yohanna, Karen, Álvaro.

Hello! How are you?

We are students from Argentina. We are ten and eleven years old. We live in Sacanta. Sacanta is a small and it is in Córdoba. Córdoba is in the centre of Argentina.

Our school is big. There are about three hundred students and thirty teachers.

In 5th B, our class, we are twenty five children.

Where do you live in Spain? Is it nice? and how is your school?

We are looking forward to your answer. Please, write soon!!

Bye bye!!!

5th B

In the picture: Morena, Guadalupe, Sofía, Morena, Agustina, Sara, Mili, Camila, Rafael, Martín, Agustín, Walter, Angel, Juan, Lucas, Natanael, Brian, Facundo. There are a few more students but they couldn’t come to class today.

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/5thgrade1-130926125159-phpapp02/95/slide-1-638.jpg?1380217940

SURPRISEEEEEEEE!!!!

We've got this from three different continents. Can you guess which ones?

Hello Janire and your students,

We, 27 students from Russian school, want to do the exchange with Spanish schoolchildren. Our class is funny, creative, merry, clever and sociable. Look at our photo! We study in the 5-th form. We are 10-11 years old 10 boys and 17 girls. This year we have made friends with two new classmates.

We live in the south-eastern part of the republic of Tatarstan, town Bugulma. It is a small nice town. About 100,000 people live here. What about you? What city do you live in? Do you like English? Have you got Russian in your timetable?

We are going to answer all your questions about us and our country and we want to know about your country and school life.

Best wishes,

Your Russian friends.

Hello Janire and your students!

We are from Russia. We live in a beautiful town Bugulma in the republic of Tatarstan. As you know, the 2013 Universiade took place in the capital of our republic Kazan. We study in the secondary school №3. Our school is big. We are 13 students (4 boys Ruslan, Daniil, Alexey, Misha and 9 girls Katya, Adelina, Angelina, Dasha, Adelia, Aliya and 3 Nastya). We study in the 6-th form (11-12 years old). Everyone is very curious, smart, friendly and kind. We like English and want to know it better. We like the idea to do the exchange with Spanish students to get to know about you, your country and your school life. Our country is so big and interesting, so we have a lot to tell about.

Best wishes,

Your Russian penfriends.
P.S. You can see only 11 of us: Nastya, Angelina, Nastya, Daniil, Dasha, Misha, Aliya, Nastya, Katya, Adelina and Alexey. Ruslan and Nastya are ill.