Christmas Card Exchange
Teachers and students prepare an envelope with Christmas cards to send tothe other participants prior to Christmas. Each school will be placed in agroupwith approximately seven other schools and will prepare either handmade or purchased cards (decorations may be included) to sendto each of the other schools.
Each classroom will receive an envelope with Christmas cards from a numberof different countries and will be able to make an exhibition to showtheir school community. Students will learn about Christmas traditions inother countries.
Facilitated by: Judy Barr in Australia
Ages: All
Dates: Ongoing
Languages: English
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Hello everyone
Here is thesixth group of teachers that I have placed in a group. You are Group 6.
In the holiday forum I have set up a discussion so that you may meet online and introduce yourselves and your classes.I have attached a picture to show you where the Holiday forum is located. There is a discussion group set up for each group of teachers where you can share information such as introducing yourself, your students, postingimages of the school or your district. You may use the forum for thestudents to write to each other if you wish. It would be nice to shareinformation about the celebrations at Christmas in your country. What doyou eat? What will the weather be like? Do families exchange gifts? Whendo they do that? Do they attend church? At midnight or in the morning?
Each class should prepare an envelope to send to the other schools. Please note the completion dates, particularly for the schools in the southern hemisphere. Last year many of the envelopes of cards arrived after December 7 and the students did not see them until February the following year. So please try to send them to arrive in mid-November so that we can have a display before the children finish school for their long summer vacation. This group does not have anyone in the southern hemisphere so it shouldn't be a problem.
I received a letter from Albert in Uganda requesting cards for children who are orphans from war and AIDS. I have posted the letter at the end. If you are willing to send some cards to them, I am sure they would appreciate it. (This is not an exchange school).
Have fun
Judy
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1. Teacher's name: Mr.Saksuda Thongmee
Name of school: Sukhirinwittaya School
Country: Thailand
Grade: 8th
Age of students involved: 12-15
Date when you finish school prior to Christmas:-
Date when you return to school after Christmas:-
We are not Christian but we celebrate christmas on 25 December. It's a part of English Department program. We are on vacation right now and the next semester will be started on 1 December.
2. Teacher's name: Larissa Ilina
Name of school: Secondary School №4
Country: Russia(Россия)
Grade:5th, 11th
Age of students involved:11, 16-17
Date when you finish school prior to Christmas:February,24
Date when you return to school after Christmas:January,11
3. It is our great pleasure to start working with you in this project.
Our basic information is as follows:
Teacher's names: Angela Tsai
Name of school: NationalFenghsinSenior High School
Country: Taiwan
Classes involved: 6 classes
Age of students involved: 16-18
Date when you finish school prior to Christmas:
We do not have long vacation prior to Christmas or after Christmas.
4. Teacher's name:Tatyana Adasik
Name of school:school number 5
Country:Belarus
Grade:9
Age of students involved:15
Date when you finish school prior to Christmas:December,23
Date when you return to school after Christmas: January,9
5. Teacher's name: Martin Wolowicz
Name of school: KingGeorgeHigh School
Country: United States
Grade: 9-12
Age of students involved: 16-19
Date when you finish school prior to Christmas: December 21, 2006
Date when you return to school after Christmas: January 2, 2007
6. Teacher's name: Margaret Chen
Name of school: Cheng-hsingJunior High School
Country: Taiwan
Grade: 7
Age of students involved: 13-14
Date when you finish school prior to Christmas: There isn't any Christmas holoday in Taiwan, so we will have classes at school as usual on Christmas Day.
I am a teacher from Taiwan.
This is the first time I participate in an iEARN project.
My students and I are all looking forward to workig with friends from iEARN.
I hope that it won't be too late for us to join this project.
7. Teacher’s name: PatrizioHardage
LoweryFreshmanCenter
I have 9th graders, ages 13-15.
Our last day before Christmas is Wednesday, 20 December.
Our first day back after Christmas is Tuesday, 2 January.
Hey, Y'all. Howdy from Allen, Texas, a Dallas suburb. Please count us in for this project.
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