Pen Pals

We are officially on summer vacation around here. And although it will seems like it is gone is a flash, 3 months is a long time for a kid to be out of the classroom. My daughter just finished 1st grade and she has learned so much in those 9 months and I want her to keep those skills over the summer and give her the best start to 2nd grade that I can. So I came up with one activity that will have her practicing her writing, grammar and vocabulary all summer.

Now thanks to facebook, blogs and message boards we all have a friend that has kids the same age as our own kids. I have a blog reader who has a little boy born the exact same day of my daughter! Since both of our kids are in the same grade, I reached out to her to see if her son would be interested in being pen pals with my daughter. Yes, old fashioned letter writing! My friend thought it would be a great idea and we exchanged addresses. My daughter wrote her first letter to her new pen-pal and at the same time she was  practicing her cursive writing, her punctuations, her spelling and even the proper way to write a letter!

My daughter is already excited to get her first letter from her pen pal. But more importantly to me, she is excited to write him back!