Thank you!

Just a little note of gratitude
for the joy of knowing you all,
Sometimes we take it for granted,
to have friends like you!

Thank you teachers and students for be part of this dream!

Working Online

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Theme IV: How did we live? Puerto Rico 15 years ago

Puerto Rico: Cities, Small Towns, and Farms

Click on the link and download the video to enjoy it.

Theme III (Our town)

Theme II- School

Dear students:
These are the guide questions for the second part of the cultural exchange.

• Describe your school.
• What do you do at school?
• What do you do at break times at school?
• What are some of the school activities?
• How many teachers do you have? courses ?
• What do you like or dislike about them? Why?
• Describe the school conditions (building etc)?
  Would you like to improve something in school? Explain why.

Read and discuss the questions with your group, before you decide how to post it on the blog.

Dear friends of Edremit, Turkey:

We started answering your friendly letters. Our teachers are getting ready with the second theme to be discussed and posted on this site.

We enjoyed and learned a lot reading about our friends of Edremit.

Check the slide show below.

Theme I- Getting acquainted (Received letters from Edremit)

Mrs. E. Torres received the letters from Mr. Sertan Ay and his students from Edremit. This coming Monday, the students from Norma I. Torres in Villalba will read, react, discuss and answer them. They will be practicing the parts of a friendly letter.

Theme 1- Introductory letter (Getting acquainted)

Dear students, these are the guide questions for the introductory letter to your e-pal from Edremit, Turkey.
Theme: Personal

• Introduce yourself and your family
• What do you do on a day?
• What do you do on weekends?
• What things do you like
  and dislike?
• Do you have hobbies?
• Mention or describe them
• How do you feel having a friend from another country?

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Our friends from Edremit have sent us a beautiful gift. They did a fantastic job. Thank you and congratulations for your art job!

The students from Edremit, Turkey, have sent their letters in order to begin with the virtual cultural exchange. Your English teacher will guide you with the next activity in the classroom.

Welcome back, dear students!

We'll be continuing with our activity with the students from Edremit,Turkey next week. Mrs. L. Burgos and Mrs. Torres, the English and computer teacher will guide the students from Villalba, Puerto Rico and Mr. Sertan Ay is the leader teacher in Edremit. Are you ready for this new experience?

"MAY EVERYONE HAVE A JOYFUL CHRISTMAS, AND MAY ALL YOUR WISHES AND DREAMS COME TO LIFE...HAVE A VERY WONDERFUL PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR"

Nice to meet you, students from Edremit!

Dear students, be ready for the next step of our activity with the students from Edremit, Turkey and his teacher Sertan Ay. (Virtual Exchange) They are getting ready with their new site. If you have Internet access at home, enjoy the new pictures received from our friends in Turkey. You can also visit their school site: www.ingilizcekulubu.com .

Students from Norma I. Torres Jr. High School in Villalba, Puerto Rico and students from Edremit, Turkey.

The weather

http://www.wunderground.com/US/PR/Villalba.html

Where is Puerto Rico located? Who are the Boricuas?

Puerto Rico (Spanish) is a self governing unincorporated territory of the United States with Commonwealth status. It is located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands; approximately two-thousand kilometers (2,000 km; 1,280 miles) off the coast of Florida (the nearest of the mainland United States). The archipelago of Puerto Rico includes the main island of Puerto Rico, the smallest of the Greater Antilles, and a number of smaller islands and keys, the largest of which are Mona, Vieques, and Culebra. Puerto Ricans sometimes refer to their island as Borikén, or the Spanish variant Borinquen, a name for the island used by indigenous Taíno people. The current term boricua derives from the Taíno name for the island, and is commonly used to identify oneself as Puerto Rican.
Even though all people born in Puerto Rico are statutory U.S. citizens, the nature of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States is the subject of ongoing debate in the island, the United States Congress, and the United Nations. Those who support maintaining the status quo (i.e., Commonwealth status) insist that upon attaining this status, Puerto Rico entered into a voluntary association with the U.S. "in the nature of a compact", but according to a President's Task Force report, Puerto Rico is an unincorporated organized territory of the United States, subject to the plenary powers of the U.S. Congress and with the "right to establish a constitution for the internal administration of government and on matters of purely local concern". For more information, please visit: