Rocky Point Students Participate In Pen Pal Project

Press release from the Rocky Point School District:

April 18, 2022

The fourth grade students in Mrs. Deborah Vieira and Mrs. Lisa Celentano’s class at Joseph A. Edgar Intermediate School in Rocky Point are sharpening their writing skills, stimulating their curiosities and learning basic journalism questions along the way.

They are participating in the Pen Pal Project set up by the United States Post Office and have set about to celebrate April’s National Card and Letter Writing Month. The students are writing to and learning about fourth grade students in a school in Tanner, Alabama.

Despite living in different environments, they are finding out they have many similarities including pets and favorite pizza toppings.

“Writing to Pen Pals has our students practicing their writing skills and organizing their thoughts onto paper,” Mrs. Vieira said. “They are writing for a real purpose and a real audience.”

Mrs. Vieira added that having a pen pal promotes many key skills, including reciprocation, patience, empathy and mutual concern. It also fosters the ability to search for and find common bonds, a key element of true friendship.

“This is a fabulous project and have the kids so excited,” she said.

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