Drawings from Svetlana's Class, Russia

6-4's Post Cards to Russia

For these lovely children in Svetlana's class: Anastasiya, Nastya, Alina, Katya, Julia, Arsenii, Artyom, Maxim, Victoria, Olesya, Zhanna, Oleg, Alina 2 , Maxim 2

Our Reply toTANFIELD LEA COMMUNITY P. SCHOOL, UK

Dear Daniel, Ella, Aaron, Olivia, Sophie and Caitlin

Here are the answers to your questions.

1. What is it like in Taiwan?

The weather here is very warm, sunny and wet.

The people here are friendly and passionate.

Taiwan abounds in fresh, sweet tropic fruit.

And there is no lack of beautiful seceneries, for example, beautiful beaches in Kenting, and the Taroko Gorge in Hualien .

But I think that the most special thing for you is the night market.

We often go out with family or friends after dinner, and night market is a good place for people who want to relax after a working or school day. Good snack, games, and drinks, you can have a lot fun there.

2. What's the name of your school?

The name of my school is Kaohsiung Municipal Fo-Gong Elementary School.

3.What’s your favorite subject in school?

My favorite subject is English. Because we always sing and dance in the class, that's funny!

4. What's the most commen pet in your country?

Dogs and cats are popular. There is a Cultural Center in Kaohsiung, many people will walk their dogs there and enjoy a beautiful afternoon. 

5. What type of music do you listen to?

I listen to pop music of Taiwan like Jay Chou, Jolin Tsai and May Day.

I listen to K-pop music, too. Girls' Generation, Super Junior, CNBLUE.

6. What kinds of things do you celebrate?

We celebrate the Chinese New Year in January or February.

We gather around the table to eat Lunar New Year's Eve dinner, and children receive red envelopes from their parents.

And paste spring couplets on the gateposts.

7.What’s your culture like?

Taiwanese culture is a culture of mixed Confucian culture, Japan, Europe and the United States.

Roughly divided in aboriginal Culture, Hakka culture, and Han culture.

In recent years, Taiwan has increased a number of foreign brides from Southeast Asia, these new immigrants bring some new culture.

8.What do you do for your Hobbies?

I enjoy watching TV, listening to music, painting and playing basketball with my friends.

9. What have you been learning about?

In Taiwan, we have to learn many things.

Math, Chinese, and mother tongue, I have been learning from grade one.

Science, History, Geography, Civics, and English, I have been learning from third grade.

10. Do you know any facts about World War II which we have been learning about?

Comparing with the part of Europe, I think that I  know  more about  China and Japan's wars.

I think that If WWII had never happened, Taiwan might have been a part of China today and the leader of China might were not the communists.

Of course, mentioned above is just my guess.

As everyone knows, the US dropped the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki , and that brought an end to WWII.

Japanese paid the price for their ambition. But my opinion is that war is cruel and uncivilized, so we should use more wise way to solve problems.

Thanks for all the questions, we had fun answering them.

The way we say goodbye is "zai jian(再見) "and it means "see you", or just say "bye bye".

Zai jian!

Yours Sincerely,

Ming-shuang

(Linlin’s student)

6-2佛公寶寶到英國的回訊 by TANFIELD LEA COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Thanks to our classpal in Tanfield Lea school.  They wrote their reply of our Fo-Gong Babies via Oddizzi.  They also ask some questions and we will answers them asap.

Dear G6
Here are some of the answers you asked us.

The population of the UK is 62,698,362.
I eat Golden balls for breakfast.
Yes the people here are very friendly here and yes the food is amazing here.
My name is Olivia and Aaron. Aaron’s best friend is Daniel and Olivia’s best friend is Bethany.
The weather in summer is sometimes hot and sometimes not.
I am 10 years old yes I have a lot of friends and we live in the Stanley area.
Yes the chocolate cake here is stunning. Football is what I am good at.
Yes we like Taiwan. My favourite sport to play is football.
The weather in England is cold and freezing. We play on the computer at home.
We go to bed at 10:00pm. Thanks for all the questions we had fun answering them.
Also, we received your questions but we are here to ask you some questions!
1. What is it like in Taiwan?
2. What's the name of your school?
3.Whats your favourite subject in school?
4. What's the most commen pet in your country?
5. What type of music do you listen to?
6. What kinds of things do you celebrate?
7.Whats your culture like?
8.What do you do for your Hobbies?
9. What have you been learning about?
10. Do you know any facts about World War II which we have been learning about?

I am going to tell you about our amazing school. We have 9 classes, 2 reception classes and one class in each year group 1 to 6. We have many different after school clubs such as street dance, craft club,multi sports, football,choir,garden club,homework. All children throughout the school can attend a club for a small charge. Our head teacher is called Miss Hemmings but she is currently working with a different school, so our deputy head covers, she is called Mrs Northcott - whats your headteacher called? The reception teachers are Mrs Hunter and Mrs Geech. Mrs Geech is new to our school she only recently joined in september . Our year 1 teacher is Mrs Northcott and our year 2 teacher is called Mrs Penna. The teachers from year 3 up to 6 are called Mrs Davis,Miss Brown, Mrs Raper and Mr Temple.
What are the teachers called in your school called? How many classes do you have in your entire school?
We also thought you would like to know about the area where we live.
Stanley is a former colliery town (this is where men and boys a long time ago would work underground collecting coal for fuel).
There are about 16,200 people living in our town at the moment. The children in the area go to a range of schools they don't all come to our school - can you imagine how big our school would have to be if they all came to Tanfield Lea.
Stanley means stoney field in old english.
In Stanley we have a range of shops such as ASDA which is a food shop, Boots which is a chemist, Peters and Greggs which are both bakeries, some banks, travelagents,a police station, and a post office.
It would be great if you would send some information about where you live.

Goodbye (how do you say goodbye?)
From Daniel, Ella, Aaron, Olivia, Sophie and Caitlin.
From: Year 6
TANFIELD LEA COMMUNITY PRIMARY SCHOOL, STANLEY, UK

6-4 busy drawing and writing for friends from Russia