E-mailing with

Macdonald Drive Elementary

Evaluation

We started our correspondance with the school in the middle of February. By the end of the month we got a reply from our contact person. She wrote that she had arranged for us to mail with Grade 6 students.We answered this mail by introducing ourselves.

A week later we recieved mails from two girls. They wrote quite a bit about themselves and what it is like to live in Newfoundland.

Heres a few qoutations:
"The place where I live-St.John`s-has a population of almost 200,000 people. Some of the most popular buisnesses are: Chapters, a bookstore which just opened up, Price Club, which is a large store which sells products in large quantities and Dominion, a grocery store. We have three malls, The Torbay mall, The Avalon mall and The Village mall."

"Newfoundlands climate is generaly a cold one, but it can get very warm in the summer. The warmest it gets in the summer is about 15'c and the coldest that it gets in the winter is about 10'c. Since we are so close to the ocean, we get mild winters and summers. The ocean is also what gives us all the fog we get. The Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream mix to make lots of fog and fish come to the coast to Newfoundland.
Most of the animals in Newfoundland have to be able to adapt to the cold weather. Some of the animals that live here are the caribou, moose, fox, mink, rabbits, and many others. We also have a fish called cod. It was one of our main resorces but it got over-fished. However, we stopped catching them and the population grew."

These are the only two mails we have received. We sent them two mails after this, asking for more information about Newfoundland, and telling them to mail us some questions about Norway. We also told them a bit about what Oslo is like at this time of the year. Since we have only received the two letters, we believe that they may have had some problems with their computers. We are sorry this didn't work out as intended.

Update:
On Wednesday the 12th of April we have received a mail. They had answerd the questions from our last mail, and asked some questions about Norway to us. We answerd these questions as good as possible, and also told them that this was the last mail because of the coming exams.