Dear Parents/Guardians,                      

ePals is the largest and fastest growing K-12 online community for meaningful learning. More than 132,000 classrooms, 350,000 teachers, and millions of learners across 200 countries and territories safely connect, collaborate, and build a worldwide community.  Exchanging ideas and questions in a meaningful way with other learners -- down the block or around the globe -- generates great excitement about learning and builds 21st century digital literacy and learning skills.

I have signed up for my account as a teacher, and I will monitor each of my student’s e-mails. Students can not e-mail other learners without my authorization, which I feel is very important for you, the parent/guardian, to be aware of. In other words, your children will not receive or send any e-mails without me reading them first. I feel it is important for you to know that he students we will be communicating with are English learners from Spanish speaking countries, who are between 12 and 13 years old. Just as our students, these students will not be able to send or receive e-mails without their teachers reading and authorizing them first. We will be corresponding once a month with the students from other countries.

 The main goal of this project is to encourage my students to practice their Spanish and to meet learners of their same age in Spanish Speaking countries. This will give them the opportunity to learn what it is like to live in other countries. I strongly encourage you to visit www.ePals.com so that you may become familiar with this site. This is not a mandatory activity for students.