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Dear Kinjal,
My name is Tasha.
The United States of America is the third lagest country in the world in population, and it's the fourth largest country in the area. China and India are the only countries with more people.
There are 50 states in the U.S. Our flag colors are red, white, and blue.
Our capital is Whashington D.C.
Your Friend,
Tasha
Manton Consolidated School
Manton, Michigan
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:36:14 -0800
Hello from Room 10, Mrs. McCalmant's class!
We are a class of 4th and 5th graders in Kennewick, Washington. We are located in the Northwest corner of the United States of America. Our city is in southeast Washington where three rivers meet (Columbia, Snake, Yakima). Many of our cities and landforms are named after Native American Indians or their words.
Our school is called Amistad Elementary School (grades kindergarten - 5th). We have about 400 kids in our school.
Our country is big. It's called the United States of America. We have 50 states but 2 are not attached to the other 48 states. These two are Alaska and Hawaii.
Our country has 3 active volcanoes. One is Mount Saint Helens which is 8365 feet high and erupted in May 1981 in our state. The other 2 volcanoes are in Hawaii. Their names are Mauna Loa and Kilauea.
Our country has a president named Bill Clinton. A president can serve up to 8 years.
Juan & Antonio
Amistad Elementary School
Kennewick, Washington, USA
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Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 16:56:27 +0100 Dear Class, Hello! Did you have fun on you holiday vacation ? I'm in the 7th grade at Keith Junior High School . I live on the east coast of the United States in a state called Pennsylvania . Our country is very industrial but also beautiful !The people here are very diverse . What is the main religion in your country? Most people here are Christian or Catholic ; although there are many exceptions ! Where I live it is about 4 hours from the ocean . Do you live near the ocean ? A lot of people in our country are interested in sports like basketball , football , soccer , and tennis . Some people are also interested in music , art , and learning about other cultures ! I am so involved in learning about other countries , so this is a great expirence for me . What is your schedule for school ? When do you get in and out of school? We go to school at 7:30 and get out at 3:00 . Your friend,*************************
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:54:16 -0500
Hi, This is Rachel George from Mrs. Buck's 7th grade class at Keith Junior High School. I am going to be writing to you about our hobbies, interests and collections.
Most people in seventh grade hang out at our mall, The Logan Valley Mall. It is a fairly large mall and has a lot of shops that teenagers can buy cloths from.
There is also a movie theater at our mall. There is another theater right across the highway. A lot of people go to the movies very often. I myself am at the mall every weekend.
There are also several bowling alleys that people hang out at.
People in Junior High also go to many parties. There is one, if not more, almost every weekend.
Some people to go a thing called Rock'n'Bowl. That is you go to the bowling alley and stay until very late. They have a Disk Jockey that plays music all night.
Some interests are Sports, friends, and Boyfriends/Girlfriends.
In Keith a popular thing to do is to go to a friends house and just invite people down at random. It is very fun and sometimes interesting! We can get into a lot of trouble doing these kinds of things but it is worth it.
A lot of my friends are into going to high school and Keith Basketball games and wrestling matches. We enjoy watching and playing these sports.
There are many different kinds of music people listen too. Some examples are Korn, Limp Bizkit, Reel Big Fish, Will Smith, Brittney Spears, and Jay-Z. My favorite band is Passing Jym. They are not big because they don't have a CD or anything but they play a lot of concerts in my city. My sister's boyfriend is in that band.
Well, That is all for this letter but I will hopefully hear from you soon. Bye! Bonjour! Adios!
Your Friend,
Rachel George
7th Grade
Keith Junior High School
Pennsylvania, USA
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:43:28 EST
Dear keypals,
Even though we have to wear uniforms, we sometimes have dress days. On certain occasions or special days we get a dresss day.Sometimes our principal will give us a dress day near a holiday. We also get one on our birthdays. We have a dress up day, but we have to wear nice clothes. We are very luckywhen we do get one. The clothes we wear have toa modest nature.
On Dress day we can wear jeans, sweatpants, or windsuits and any shirt we want. When we have a dress up day we wear khakis or any other nice pants and a nice shirt.
Stephen Norris
St. Mary's School
South Carolina, USA
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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 10:43:28 EST
Dear Friend,
We recently celebrated St. Patrick' s Day. On St. Patrick's Day we wear green or we get pinched. We celebrate St. Patrick's Day because Patrick spread Christianity through Ireland.
Your Friend,
Meredith Nell
St. Mary's School
South Carolina, USA
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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 17:29:02 -0700
Dear Mrs. Shah's class,
We have four schools in our town: Wheat Elementary (4-7 year-olds), Woodville Intermediate (8-10 year-olds), Woodville Middle School (11-13 yr.-olds), and Woodville High School (14-18 yr.-olds).
At our school we don't wear uniforms. We wear shorts, pants, jeans, short-sleeve shirts, and long-sleeve shirts in winter.
Our school time if from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Sometimes we get out a little early if it's a holiday.
We only have one principal. Her name is Dr. A.
Sincerely,
Travis (boy)
Third Grade
Woodville Intermediate School
Woodville, Texas, USA
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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 17:29:02 -0700
Hi, my name is Jessica Leeanne Hargrove. There are 16 people in our class. Most kids wear T-shirts, shorts, or jeans to school.
My school's name is Woodville Intermediate. I'm in Mrs. Williams' 3rd-grade class. Our school has only one floor, but many rooms. We have one computer room, one music room, one cafeteria, one nurse's office, and one principal's office. Our main language is English. We have a substitute teacher today. Do you ever have a substitute?
Well, I've got to go. Bye.
Your friend,
Jessica Hargrove (girl)
Third Grade
Woodville Intermediate School
Woodville, Texas, USA
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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 17:29:02 -0700
Dear Mrs. Shah's class,
My name is Jeremy. I am in third grade. I am going to tell you about my school. In our class we read books called Accelerated Readers. After we read them, we take tests on the computers. The high school kids play football games on Friday nights. We speak English. Three weeks ago we started learning sign language, and when we grow up we will learn Spanish in high school. Right now we are reading a book called "How to Eat Fried Worms." We have 16 people in our class. We do not wear uniforms.
Sincerely,
Jeremy (boy)
Third Grade
Woodville Intermediate School
Woodville, Texas, USA
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Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 17:29:02 -0700
Dear Mrs. Shah's class,
My name is Felicia Janell Land. I am in third grade. I am going to tell you about my school. We don't wear uniforms. We wear T-shirts, jeans, dresses, warm-ups, and hair bows.
My school is made out of cement and bricks. We have one principal, and her name is Dr. A. We have one school counselor. Her name is Mrs. Dengler.
We have social studies, science, math, English, writing, and reading.
We learn one language. That is English.
We have a cafeteria where we eat our food. We also have a woman who helps us in our classroom. Her name is Mrs. Taylor.
Sincerely,
Felicia (girl)
Third Grade
Woodville Intermediate School
Woodville, Texas, USA
March 18 1998
Dear Pen Pal;
Hi I'm Becky Paine and I'm happy to be your new pen pal.I'm a thirteen year old female who goes to Cedar Crest Middle School. I'm somewhere around five foot two.I have dirty blond curly hair and brown eyes.I'm happy and very energetic.
My hobbies include participating in plays,talking on the phone, being on a Odyssey of the Mind Team, and just hanging with my friends.
I will explain what Odyssey of the Mind is. This is a team of seven kids who work on a problem for about three months to come up with a skit to solve it. This is called our long term problem. Spontaneous is when they give us a problem like name things that are black. We have one minute to think and two to respond. This may seem easy but when your under pressure and you want creative answers, it isn't.
I hope to hear from you soon.I would like know how you spend your spare time.
Your New Friend,
Becky Paine
Grade 7
Cedar Crest Middle School
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
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March 18, 1998
Dear Pen Pal,
Hello my name is Jeremy Wingle. I am very excited to be your pen pal.
I am a thirteen year old boy. I am about five feet, six inches, and weigh about one hundred and thirty pounds. I have blonde hair and blue eyes. I part my hair to the right.
I am on an OM team at school. OM is Odyssey of the Mind. Did you ever hear of this? If not, each year teams which consists of seven team members, are given a problem to solve. The team works on it for about three months, then go to a competition and present their solution in the form of a skit or short play. The teams are scored and winners are chosen. My team this year got first place at the Regional Competition and we are going to State Finals.
If you want some more info about this you can go to their website at: http://www.odyssey.org
Sincerely,
Jeremy Wingle
Grade 7
Cedar Crest Middle School
Lebanon, Pennsylvania
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:42:28 PST
Hello! My name is Johanna Gomez.
I'm gonna start out with talking about an outdoor education program called Camp Rotary. Camp Rotary deals with having to adapt to the outdoors.
The types of activities that we are given are rappelling and climbing. Map and compass, winter survival. We made shelters and fires in Winter Survival. We had many other activities also.
Camp Rotary took place February 22nd through the 26th. It also took place March 1st through 5th. The reason it happened 2 weeks is because another school joins in also and it creates too many people.
As you heard it's a whole week of camp. I honestly think that I had a lot of fun making new friends there.
At this camp we sleep in cabins too. We get awards for whatever cabin is the cleanest. We call that the "Golden Broom".
When we'd get done eating a meal our table would have to set up their silverware nicely. Whatever group had it the neatest won a medal called "Golen Banana"
We had a lots of fun contests like that! Well i gotta go!
Bye!
Sincerely,
Johanna Gomez
Manton, Michigan
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:42:28 PST
Dear Friends,
We went to Camp Rotary on the 22nd of February. We went for a whole week. We had lots of good food.
We had 8 different classes that week. They were winter survival, nature awareness, pond study, rappelling, map and compass, first aid , Indian Lore, and iniutiative games. My favorites were rappelling and map and compass.
We went ice fishing and caught a 34 inch (86cm) long pike.
Your friend,
Alex (boy)
Manton, Michigan
Dear E-pals,
Hi! We are writing to you about camp Rotary. This is a camp where we learned about the outdoors. We had classes. Classes were outside for the most part , but some were indoors.
One of our classes was called winter survival. We learned how to build a fire and make shelters in the winter.
We also did Initiatives. Initiatives are mind problems, they're trick, but possible to complete, if you use teamwork.
We stayed in dorms. Actually they were big cabins that had bunk beds and two bathrooms. We stayed for a week then came back to school.
Our classes were called Nature Awareness, Rappelling, Map and Compass, Indian Lore, Pond Study, Winter Survival, first aide, and Initiatives.
All of them were fun
Your Friend
Krystina(girl)
Manton, Michigan
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Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:42:28 PST
Dear Friends,
Camp Rotary is a camp where half of the 6th graders go down to this camp and half stay here at school and do fun activities. The people that are at camp do activities like the human knot, and learn about the outdoors.
Your Keypal
Stephanie Clay (girl)
Manton, Michigan
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:42:28 PST
Dear Keypals,
Hi! On the 22-26th of Febrary we went to a camp. Camp Rotary is a school activity where we go to a winter camp and learn different things.
Nature Awareness was where we learned there is only one bush that flowers in the winter.
Your friend,
Amy (girl)
Manton, Michigan
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Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:42:28 PST
Dear Keypals,
Hi, my name is Charity. My classmates and I just got back
from camp. it was so much fun.
We did different activities like winter survival, map and compass, nature awareness,
indian lore, pond study, cross country skiing, and one of my favorites, repelling.
Reppelling is where you climb a wall and then reppel off the wall.
Cross country skiing is when you go down a snowy hill on
skies.
We had night activities like a nightime hike in the woods, play olympics, folk concert,
political rally, and a dance. I liked camp a lot.
In the morning we raised the flag and at night we lowered it.
We had a handicapped hike where our leaders psick a handicap for us. I was a Siamese twin. It was fun, but hard.
Your keypal,
Charity
Manton, Michigan
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Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:42:28 PST
Dear Pals,
Our sixth graders went to Camp Rotary. It is a winter camp. we went and played games and had classes.
The classes were pond study, we played in the mud to find bugs and put them under microscopes.
One of the games we played was broom ball. That is where you use brooms and a ball and if you put it in the net you get a point.
We get lots of snow. When we get snow it is very cold and the lakes freeze. At camp we fished through the ice and caught a 34 inch (86cm) long pike. I will send a picture of it to you.
Your Friend,
Walker(boy)
Manton, Michigan
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Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:42:28 PST
Dear Friends,
I am writing to tell you about our week at camp. Camp Rotary is originaly a boy scout camp, but during a two week period February 22- March 5 Manton and Lake City [cities) 6th grade classes go to learn about the outdoor things like wilderness survival were we learned how to build fires and lean-tos.
Pond study was were we had to find animals in the swamps and lake and make up marching songs.
Map and compass was were had to find clues hidden on trees in the woods by using our compass and map.
Rappelling were we jump off a tower with ropes and finally indian lore were we made neclaces and wrote stories.
My favorite was map and compass. Well bye!
Your friend,
Nina ( girl)
Manton, Michigan
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Fri, 12 Mar 1999 08:42:28 PST
Dear Keypals,
Hello my name is Kayla. I wanted to tell you about the camp I went to. It is called Camp Rotary. I had a great time. It was a lot of fun.
I went rappelling for the first time and I loved it.
My teacher is Miss. Bathrick. She taught us pond study at camp. We made a song up to the tune of Mary Had A LIttle Lamb. Mr. Hejnal, another teacher, put a live frog in his mouth, and Mr. Smith ate Gypsy Moth eggs. We went to camp with Lake City students. I got to know some people from Lake City.
We won the award for the cleanest table, the Golden Banana, on the last day.
Your keypal,
Kayla (girl)
Manton, Michigan
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