Learn about different culture
Develop relationships
Delayed gratification- you have to wait
to get a response
Teaches responsibility- responding in a
timely manner
Promotes empathy- helps to see things
from another perspective
Networking- many start out as pen-pals
and later meet
Improves communication skills
Learn geography- my kids look up the
country/state their mail comes from
Learn phrases in foreign languages- the
internet even teaches us how to say them
Increases curiosity- Sabrina was
curious about a picture on a postcard so we looked up opossums and
learned a lot from YouTube.
Fun!
Alex and Sabrina have become pen-pals
with several of their far-flung relatives, friends who moved, and
even a friends' adult son. They also receive and send postcards from
postcrossing (though not as pen-pals). To them it is simply fun; they do not realize that it is also an educational part of their homeschool.
Marie-Anne
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