This afternoon I sent off 18 colorful letters from my 4th graders to America. Their pen pals are 3rd graders in Rochester MN - a class that Mikaela has been volunteering with. She graciously agreed to help me with the project, and their homeroom teacher sent me a packet of letters filled with introductions and questions about life in Taiwan (do you have electricity? are there sharks where you live?). She even taught them to write a few Chinese characters. My students were a bit confused at first when I started explaining where in the world Rochester is, but they quickly got excited about the prospect of new American friends. And they went all out in decorating their correspondence:
I was really impressed by this epistle of a hardworking student:
Most letters were not quite as polished as Mayble's... the one below especially cracked me up. The student copied a sentence from the textbook, and made a plea for his pen pal to write back in Chinese. But he was willing to part with 5 NT! Another funny phrase on several letters was "you can have good memory." Not sure where this came from, but Roxanna theorizes that one of the better students wrote it first and the others borrowed it when they ran out of things to say.
I was really impressed by this epistle of a hardworking student:
Most letters were not quite as polished as Mayble's... the one below especially cracked me up. The student copied a sentence from the textbook, and made a plea for his pen pal to write back in Chinese. But he was willing to part with 5 NT! Another funny phrase on several letters was "you can have good memory." Not sure where this came from, but Roxanna theorizes that one of the better students wrote it first and the others borrowed it when they ran out of things to say.
