To practice letter writing, we paired our classroom with another local school. Through penpals our students are excited to share, write, and go through the writing process. Even though we are in the same county their schools are completely different. Ours being an urban school and their penpals being at a charter school with an emphasis on environmental science. The plan is to have the students meet at the end of the year and experience a life science lesson at the charter school, until then the learning continues through letters.