connected through love lettters from the kids...just a few

so...these are letters written by elementary or middle schoolers. i've been going into classrooms the past few weeks and teaching a short lesson on africa and what i will be doing there. then i asked the kids to imagine that they are writing to someone in africa. what would they want to tell them about life here? we brainstormed ideas of what could be in the letters and then i asked them to write a letter and draw a picture. i'll take these down with me to africa and give them to people there. then, hopefully i can have people write a letter and draw a picture in africa and bring it back to show or give the kids here in colorado. i think this is a fun and awesome way for us all to be "connected through love." plus...it was so fun and i loved what they wrote and drew!

Dear friend,
My name is ***. I am 13 years old. I live in a house with my mom, my dad, my little brother, my cat, and my dog. My cat's name is Bananas. He does not like me! My dog's name is Murphy. He is a very strange case, that one.
I like to go to the movies at the theater and act in plays. I also like singing.
In school, my favorite subject is writing. It is very fun and educational.
After school, I like hanging out with my friends. We have sleepovers where we watch Barbie and speak in accents. We also wear footsie pajamas and scare the pizza guy with exfoliating masks.

5-14-10
Dear friend,
I'v been hearing about you, now its your turn to hear about me. But first I have 1 question what is your name? Mine is ***, you can call me *** for short. I'm 9 years old right now, I'm going to be ten soon, well I'm going to tern ten on June 14th. Have you ever seen snow its so cool, its wite and puffy. It's like a cloud but its on the ground. It's also really cold. I have so much to tell you about. But thats all I have time for right now. Bie!

Dear friend,
My name is ***, and I'm 10 years old. What's your name, and your age? My school is Wingate Elementary. It got it's name from the red rock formation outside. It's called the Colorado National Monument.
I live in Grand Junction, Colorado, in the U.S.A. Western Colorado is a desert just like part s of Africa. But we don't have cool animals like you see almost every day are caged up in a "zoo" so we can learn ab out them.

Dear friend,
My name is *** and I am in the USA and Im is 3 grade. Do you play football? If you dont I will tell you. You hick the ball if you run it you run tord's your tuchdown. If you throw it you throw it to your team mat and he run's tord the tuchdown like you ran tord the tuchdown. If you kick it you put your foot on the Ball and kick.

Dear friend,
Hi my name is *** I'm a 10 year old third grader in the U.S. A. How is Africa. Have you been to the Victoria Falls? If you have do you think you can tell me about it. I think it would be cool to know about them.

Dear friend
My name is *** what is your name? my favorit hobbey is playing football how we play football is you need a ball you need players and a field. there is two team captions and they get to pick players then they do rock, paper, sissors to see who kicks and who trys to make a tuchdown and the team captain chossis the plays.

Dear friend,
My name is ***, what's your's. I live in a house with my dad, my older sister, my cat, and my dog. I am 13 years old. I can draw really good, what is your talent because I think everyone has one. I hope that you write back.
P.S. I hope you enjoyed this.

Dear friend,
How are you? I hope that you're good. I'm supposed to tell you about my life in America, so I'll start out with my education. I am 12 years old and in the 7th grade. I am lucky to be learning math, literacy, geography, science, and music! I get to do many hobbies like hiking and skiing! You might not have heard of skiing before, but I don't have enough time to explain it (you should ask Carina.) I have to go now.

Dear student,
I would like to tell you about life in my town in America. It can get really hot here in the summer, but it can also get really cold. It can even snow! Snow is white, wet, cold and fun. To a point that is. This winter it snowed all the way into May! It usually doesn't and after a while all that white fluffy beauty turns into a dirty, icy annoyance. It's finally stopped and started to get warm for summer when I'll be wishing for snow because of the heat.
What sorts of things do you like to play with? I have many toys , but sometimes the most fun is a plain old stick.
I hope you live in a nice place and a good home.

Dear friend
hi my name is *** but I want to meet you in real life. But do you like hsharks? because I like sharks. I want to be a mereanbyolagest. A mareanbyolagest is a person who goes under water and studies sea life like sharks and fish and dolphens and whales.


SOOOO cute, good, insightful, and loving hunh!!! This was so fun! There are so many good letters but I wanted to post a hand full because, they are just worth sharing! I love what kids say!