E pals

This week the 5th grade writing students were excited to start writing to their "e-pals".  They are communicating with 6th grade students from a school in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.  These students chose one of our 5th graders as their "e-pal" based on similar interests. The students really enjoyed opening their email, finding out who their pal is, reading their first message and writing back.  It should be fun to learn about a country so close to us and develop a bond with students from Canada!  We will have these pals all year, and plan to work on a collaborative Google Docs project with this class later in the Spring.