Colorado Writing Pen Pals

Over the last few months we have been sharing some of our writing with a class from Colorado. The class we are partnering up with is a first grade class from Vista Peak Elementary School in the Denver, CO area. Their teacher is Mrs. Danielle Hunter who also happens to be married to my cousin. We worked hard to send them a book that taught them all about our school. This book was from our informational writing unit and included an all about me page as well. Yesterday, we received a package of writing back from them. The kids were VERY excited to read writing from another first grader.

We also connected this adventure to our social studies unit on mapping. We located their town on the map and visited the outside of their school with a virtual field trip on Google Earth.

Our next step is going to be to write a book review about a favorite book to send to our pen pals. This will go along with our current opinion writing unit. I also hope that by the end of the year we will also be able to do a Google Hangout with them so we can see their faces and classroom.

Below are some pics of the kids with our pen pals writing. :)