THE FISH - prijatelji iz Amerike

Naši ameriški prijatelji (RIBICE :) so nam poslali e-voščilnico ob njihovem nadvse priljubljenem prazniku - dnevu zahvalnosti. Preberete in ogledate si jo lahko s klikom na spodnjo animacijo.

In ker so nam v mesecu novembru poslali že dva pisma, objavljamo tudi njiju (več o otrocih si lahko preberete s klikom na povezavo ePals na desni strani našega bloga).

Hello everybody! We loved your pictures; thank you! We only have 19 people in our class, so you have more kids than we do. We like the yellow scarves you all wear too.

We are going to tell you about Halloween, which we just celebrated on Saturday. Halloween is lots of fun! You get to dress up in costumes, and go Trick-or-treating. That means we wear our costumes and go to our neighbor's houses and ring the doorbell. Then we say, "Trick-or-treat!"
They give us lots of candy. Some of the costumes we wore were: vampires, mummies, ninjas, witches and fairies. Most of us dressed up as something scary. Even our parents go to Halloween parties! At school we had spooky snacks, like spiders made from crackers and bloody fingers made from cheese. We had monkey faces too; they were banana slices. We had a lot of fun! Stores decorate for Halloween, and people decorate their houses with scary things like skeletons and fake spider webs. We make jack-o-lanterns out of pumpkins. We scoop out the inside of the pumpkin and carve a scary face on it. We put a candle or a flashlight in the jack-o-lantern to light it up, then we put it in the window or on our steps. We LOVE Halloween!

What holidays do you celebrate? The next holiday we celebrate is Thanksgiving. It is on 26 November. We'll take pictures for you and tell you all about it.

We are going to make a movie of our school for you. It will take us a long time, but we hope to finish it by Christmas. And we want to know how you celebrate Christmas.

Thank you for sending us so many pictures!

Your friends,
Ms. Mathes' First Grade
Maine, USA

To Our Friends, the Sparkles,

Your letter was interesting and we liked it.

We have another holiday coming up next week - Thanksgiving. We have a big feast at Thanksgiving. We eat turkey, cranberry sauce, corn, stuffing, peas, mashed potatoes, and we have pumpkin pie or apple pie for dessert.
We watch a parade, and we get together with our families and friends. We have lots of people at our house! We are thankful for our cats and dogs, our bunnies, and all animals, our food, our planet, the trees, and for everyone! At Thanksgiving we give thanks for all these blessings.

We want to know if your teacher calls you Sparkles. What do you say when she says, "Sparkles"? Our teacher calls us "Fish" and we say, "Yes"!

Would you please make us a video of your school? We would like to see what your classroom looks like. We will make you a video of our school too.

Do you have other e-pals besides us? We are writing to children in England and Russia.

Your friends,
The Fish

Hmm, izgleda, da bomo morali še malo delati na utrjevanju imena Iskrice ... (tega do sedaj res nismo preveč trenirali). Seveda smo jim tudi mi vestno pisali, jim razložili, zakaj nosimo rumene rutice, in jim predstavili za nas najbolj zabaven "praznik" - pusta (fotografije sledijo, ko pridemo do februarja). Sedaj pa nas čaka predstavitev šole ... Spet bo zanimivo :D