foreign+friends

“Pen Pals” // By: Anna // Pen pals: pretty much online friends, but on paper. Most adults think of your social side as just fun and games. Pen pals can be just that, but in addition, can also get in contact with your intellectual side. Exchanging letters from foreign countries, or even just another state, would give students an audience to revise and help them with their work. As well as an extra eye to look over pupils' work, motivation can influence kids to write more often, and might start making it fun for them. Pen pals would make writing more fun, and definitely easier to grade last night’s homework. For example, a teenager just got her first letter from her pen pal in Sweden, and gets really excited to write back to her. This girl is so excited to hear her friend’s response, that she can almost hear “you’ve got mail”, coming from the mailbox. In other words, this teen is so delighted to write back to her new pen pal, her enthusiasm converts into motivation. Improving, motivational, and exciting will be those new letters being sent from one country to another. Starting a whole pen pal project may sound difficult, but definitely beneficial for both students and teachers. Many classes around the world might want to start a pen pal project, let us make West Lee Middle School one of them!