Last Thursday I went along with Frances Kinney to visit a classroom of 6th graders who were writing to their pen pals in Mexico.  The purpose of this pen pal idea is an effort for children in both the U.S. and Mexico to work together to help our environment and do what they can to save the Sea Turtles.  As Frances explained to the students, this is important because since sea turtles have no understanding of the line that the border represents, it is necessary for both countries to work together.  It was fun to see how excited the children got about writing to kids in another country, and how the Spanish speakers really made an effort to help out and work together with the English speakers so that they could write their letters in Spanish.
Here are some pictures of the kids working together!