This email was sent to us before our Easter Holidays. It is from our friends at Innes Middle School in Akron, Ohio.
They have sent us this picture of the snow that has fallen there in March!
“Hello everyone!
We are sending a picture of what our blizzard was like here in
Ohio. A couple of students, Steven and [...]
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An email from America…
Published by April 14th, 2008 in ELP USA, ELP diaries and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 CommentsIt’s Spring Vacation!
Published by April 14th, 2008 in ELP USA, ELP diaries and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 CommentsWe have just returned from our Easter holidays - the annual two week break we always enjoy at this special time of year. In Scotland, the spring holidays coincide with Easter, signifying it’s importance down the years in our country.
Between Easter and the summer break we have a few Monday Holidays that let us relax [...]
Hershey bars and snow balls…
Published by February 28th, 2008 in ELP USA, ELP diaries and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 CommentsThis week the class pupils were lucky enough to receive a special mailing from their friends in the USA. There was much excitement as we opened a fabulous goodie bag of letters, pens and American candy. It was as though Christmas had come eight weeks late…
All of our children received wonderful and interesting letters from individual [...]
A letter TO America…
Published by January 15th, 2008 in ELP - English, ELP - ICT, ELP USA and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 Comments Today in ICT we used our ever improving computer skills to write a letter to our friends in America. Not only did this allow us to practise using Microsoft Word software but it encouraged us to make use of the simple sentences we have been practising in English with Ms Monaco.
In English we have been [...]
Thanksgiving and St Andrew’s Day
Published by November 26th, 2007 in ELP USA and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 CommentsSt Andrews Day-ThanksGiving Activity
In America, over the last week, people have been celebrating THANKSGIVING.
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North American holiday to give thanks for the things that people have at the end of the harvest season. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on [...]
Using Powerpoint to send information to America…
Published by November 13th, 2007 in ELP - ICT and ELP USA. 0 CommentsThis week we are learning how to use a special computer package called Powerpoint. The reason we want to find out what this special programme can do, is that we would like to tell our American friends in Akron, Ohio all about our lives in East Lothian.
At first we thought that we could maybe send [...]
We find out a little more about our friends in Ohio…
Published by November 9th, 2007 in ELP USA. 0 CommentsToday we received an email from the school in Ohio that we are forging links with. It came from the classroom teacher whose idea it was to make contact with Preston Lodge - and she answered some of the many questions OUR students had about life in an Akron school.
Our pupils were very excited to [...]
Hello Ohio!
Published by October 23rd, 2007 in ELP USA and Enhanced Learning Provision (ELP). 0 CommentsOver the coming months we hope to link up with fellow high school pupils who live across the Atlantic Ocean…
These students are pupils in the state of Ohio in the United States of America…
The USA is a much larger country than Scotland and has many things that are very different to our way of life [...]
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