Hi Carol, I am a Social Studies teacher in a private school in Madrid, Spain. My students are very motivated hard working 8th graders living in a very dry country...:). We would love to collaborate with your students on the water project. We are new to ePals, so I´d like for you to explain how the project is going to be done. My students are bilingual and this will be a great opportunity to exchange emails with American students.

Thanks,

Ana C Costello

SEK EL Castillo

Madrid, Spain 

Greetings,

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Hi, Carol, I am from Pushp's School Rishikul Vidya Peeth Sonepat.  So nice to hear from you.  Our school is a very big one, with 1600 students.  We are going to conduct an assembly on the same topic on the 27th of May.  The students will discuss water problems, recite poems, make speeches, slogans, posters, and quiz on how to save water by performing dances, songs, etc.  This is our international activity.  How do you conduct this activity at your school?Send me some pics if possible on my mail at tamanna@epals.com.  This favour of yours can be reciprocated as per your wishes.

Thank you, Tamanna and Pushplata

Hi Jen,

I know you wrote to Sara, but I am also looking to collaborate, or

have my students collaborate with other students on the water project.

Let me know if you are interested in working with our school...we have

7 students in the 6th & 7th grade who have studies water issues both local and

global.  We are located in Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA

Thanks,

Carol D'amico,  ELA  and Social Studies teacher

Hi Sara,

My name is Jen, I am from Waukegan, Il but am teaching in New Zealand.  I work 2 days a week with a year 5-8 classroom that has been studying conservation.  Let me know if you are still looking for a class to work with. 

Thanks!

Hi Pushp,

I am so glad you answered and would like to collaborate with us.

Hi Pushp,

Thank you for contacting us.  We would like to collaborate with you and your students on this global

water project.

Our school is small and I have only seven students who are in the 6th & 7th grade.

We are studying water problems in our town and around the world.

How would you like to begin our collaboration??

My students can write to you....and you can share it with your students...

My students all have an email address through ePals.

Do your students have email addresses??

Our school year is over at the end of June...so we will have to begin working on this very soon.

Thank You,

Carol D'Amico

Provincetown Middle School,  Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA

Let me know,

Carol D'Amico

Provincetown Public Schools

Hi, I am Pushp Lata, from Rishikul Vidyapeeth school in Sonepat, India.  We are working on International Activity On Water's Day.  We have to conduct this activity among eighth grade students.  I would like to do a collaboration with you.  Please do reply.

Ms. Pushp Lata Bhardwaj

Rishikul Vidyapeeth School

Sonepat, India                   

Hi Priyanka,

I have posted a message to Sara also, and would like my students - 7th & 8th graders from Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA

to join an international water project if it is possible at this time.

Please let me know details and if it is still possible to colloaborate from now to the end of June.

Thank you,

Carol D'Amico,  Provincetown Middle School

Hi Sara & Mrs. Baloglu,

My small middle school class is located in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and our town is located on a penisula.

We would love to join this international project and become ePals with your students.  My students can share lots of info on water resources,

global issues, etc.

Can you let me know if this is OK, and what you might be working on???

Thank You,

Carol D'Amico

Hi Sara,

We are a small middle school in Provincetown, Mass. surrounded by water at Land's End.

My students completed a water project and we are looking for international ePals to share info with re: water resources, problems, etc.

Please let me know if we would be able to join in with this project.

Thanks,

Carol D'Amico,  ELA  &  Social Studies teacher for the 7/8 grade class.

Arzu,

We are working in the computer lab today to set up our email addresses.  Please let me know when you have your students addresses.  Let's move our communication to email as well.  My email is spateoasd@epals.com

My students are very excited to send their emails.

Sara

Hi, Sara, I've found the materials.  Thanks for the help.  On Monday, I'll hand them out to my students and also I'll send their email addresses to you within a few days. My students and I are very excited, too.

See you soon,

Arzu

Hi Arzu,

I have 28 students, so I will have them partner up and correspond as a pair.  My students have filled out the water usage chart where they track their water usage for 24 hours.  All of the materials are on this site.  Please let me know if you need to know where to find them.  I had another teacher help me!  I am very excited to work together on this.  I hope to have the students send their emails next week, but I need to look into how to set up the accounts for the kids-and get parent permission.

Sara

Oshkosh, WI USA

Hi Sara,

We're very happy to work with you. I've got only 13 students but they are really eager to work on this project. Just let me know please what we should do for the project. I've already told them to search some facts about water.

Thanks

Arzu

Bursa,Turkey

Hello.  We are interested in having you join us.  Between myself and another teacher in our district, we have about 55 students.  They are in 8th grade, 13-14 years. old.  We have begun the project and would like to correspond with you soon.

Sara Pate

Tipler Middle School

Oshkosh, WI, USA