Hello World!

Funded Oct 22, 2018

My students want to thank you so much for the opportunity to communicate with classrooms all over the world. We made use our smart board to find the countries that we were partnered with thru the Holiday Card program on Ilearn website. Then we made cards to send to 8 different classrooms in the countries of Belarus, Sibeira,Russia, Slovenia, Taiwan, China and Mexico. We have received cards from every country but Mexico. Each set of cards came with a letter of introduction from the teacher. Several of the countries did not celebrate Christmas, but had a different type of holiday cards. This lead the class to lively discussions about cultural traditions and how they compare and contrast to their families traditions. My students also were amazed at the materials that the students from the different countries to make the cards. Later, this year we will be skyping with one of the classrooms. The teacher and I have picked a day in the spring to do this.

I believe that this project opened the world to my students, who for the most part have never traveled more than 100 miles from home. Their excitement and willingness to be open to learning about the world was a highlight of the first semester of the school year.”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Tedford