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Hello iEARN Community, from New York City!
Our first foray into the happy world of iEARN is a Christmas Card Project between us and a school in Russia. We tried to enter the existing project but were too late to join, so the facilitator kindly put us in touch with our Russian counterparts, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Before we began contemplating our first communications with the Russian children, we did a few days of reading about Russia. We learned lots of different things about life there, so we had a bit of information before we received our first letters from them.
To our surprise and delight, the Russian children wrote in perfect English! Moreover, their interests paralleled ours- for example, many children enjoyed playing the same video games as ours, and all enjoyed the same kind of music as well as the same artists! Whoops of delight and recognition filled our class as the letters were read aloud. We responded in kind, and now we will commence the creation of Christmas cards for our new Russian friends.
We hope to enclose some little gifts and samples of American Christmas celebrations in our envelope to send to Russia. We’re gathering materials, and we’re going to try our hands at poetry to enclose with our cards. We’re happy and excited to do this!
iEARN is certainly a window through which we can all look at each other to find our differences and, more importantly, our similarities, on a global scale. We’re happy to be on board!
Joanne Colucci, Danielle Lichtenstein, and the Kids of PS 35
Hollis, New York
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