We Got Mail!!!!!

Monday was an exciting morning in our class. We received mail from Yellowknife!   Our Northern buddies wrote us a letter to tell us all about life in the knife!  The told us what they like to do in the summer and winter.  Some of the things they like to do are the same as us but others are very different.  In the winter the lakes freeze over and they can go ice fishing, ski-dooing, and skating on them.  Lots of people build outdoor rinks to play hockey. In the summer they go to the beaches near the lakes and play in the water.   They go tubing and swimming!

They told us how Yellowknife came to be a city.  It started as a mining town. They mined gold and diamonds!

They also wrote postcards to us and showed us what life is like and what they like to do.  They showed us the northern lights, dog sleds, and the foxes that roam around their city!  

Can you see the Northern Lights in these pictures?

 Mrs. Betts has been to the Wild Cat Cafe!  It is a famous place to eat in Yellowknife!

 We liked seeing the sled dogs!  Especially because we are called the Huskies!







A fox outside of WalMart????

Then we brainstormed for what we like to do in our community in the summer or winter and made postcards to send back to them.

 Can you tell what we like to do from our drawings?

Today we reread their letter and then created a class letter to send back to them. It was wonderful to
connect with another class in a different part of Canada.  We were amazed that we have so much in
common but that we live so far away from each other!
Have you ever been to Yellowknife or seen the Northern Lights?   I wonder if we can Skype with them sometime soon?