Each school will submit one letter of introduction. Use your own discretion on whether or not to combine letters from several classes into one. Please include the name and location of the school, including latitude and longitude, and the grade levels participating. We would also like an email address and postal address. This information will be posted. We encourage teachers and students to correspond with one another. Free email accounts may be set up through Yahoo or E-mail if necessary. Use this letter of introduction to describe your school and community. Any other information that you can share would further enhance the project.

Greetings from Charles J. Riley PS #9. CJR 9 is located in Paterson, New Jersey. Paterson is an urban area located in Passaic County and is 20 miles from New York City. The elevation of CJR 9 is 121 above sea level. Our coordinates are 40:54N and 74:9W. Paterson is located in a Deciduous Forest biome. We experience all four seasons in a year. Our average temperature in the winter is 36F (2C) and in the summer it is 87F (31C). The average rainfall is 43.97in per year. Currently we are enjoying a typically rainy Northeastern Spring. We look forward to sharing our results.

Our school is located in a very diverse community and our students come from all over the world. Our student body is made up of approximately 1200 students in grades K-8. Our students are predominatly Latino, Arabic and Turkish; however, over 16 different languages are spoken in our students' homes.

Our school was selected to be a theme shool and contains three different academies. The theme for grades 6-8 is the Global Awareness Academy. Students receive instruction in interdisciplinary units. Our teachers designed this project to help in the study of heat transfer and solar energy. Mrs. Tarant will teach the science concepts, Ms. Warren will teach the math and Mrs. O'Rourke will help with the technology comonents of the project.

Mrs. Tarant, Ms. Warren, Mrs. O'Rourke

6 Timothy Street

Paterson, NJ 07503

     G'day to everyone from Invergordon PS,
Invergordon is a small rural community (population approx 500) in Victoria,
which is the most southern state on the east coast of mainland Australia.
Invergordon has a small township (population about 40) and the rest of the
community live on dairy farms or orchards. ( There are also some small hobby
farms.)   Our school is called Invergordon Primary School.  It has 62
students from Prep to Grade 6.  We're in Grade 6 and there are 10 of us, 6
boys and 4 girls.  Our teacher is Mr Paul Cairns.  He is also the school's
Principal.  There are three other classrooms, a Prep/Grade 1, a Grade 2/3
and a Grade 4/5.  We have five computers in our classroom and four of them
are connected to the internet.  It is summer time here at the moment and we
have already had some very hot days.  We often have days over 100F.  Our
winters are cold but we never have snow. We are only 590 feet above sea
level.   Our town isn't on most maps.  It is about 30 kilometres NNE of
Shepparton which is our nearest city.  Our latitude is South 36 degrees
8.75minutes and our longitude is East 145 degrees 36.644 minutes.  Our
e-mail address is inverps@cnl.com.au and our postal address is:
Invergordon Primary School
RMB 4272
Invergordon
Victoria   3636
AUSTRALIA.

From
Grade 6
Invergordon Primary School
Australia
 

Greetings from Scoil Eoin, Kilbarrack, Dublin5, Ireland.

Kilbarrack is a suburb on the N.E. of the city of Dublin. It is a 15
minute train journey to the city centre,yet we are only a 10 minute walk
from Bull Island  a Nature Reserve where thousands of migratory ducks
and geese over winter.

There are 270 pupils in the school  aged between four and thirteen.We're
in Fourth Class and there are 32 pupils in our class.We have one
computer in our classroom  and one Internet connection in the school.

At 53 degrees 25.59minutes North  we are nearer to the North Pole than
the Equator.However, even at this latitude solar panels are beginning to
appear on the roofs of some houses.Our longitude is 6 degrees 15 minutes
West.

The climate in Ireland is mild, moist and variable.Dublin is on the East
coast so we fortunate in that less then 30 inches of rain falls here
annually.

We are looking forward to participating in this project as it will be
our first occasion  collaborating with schools around the world.
Our e-mail address for the project will be scoileoin@hotmail.com

Mary Purcell
Scoil Eoin,
Kilbarrack,
Dublin 5
Ireland.

Our climate here is dry (4-7 inches of rainfall per year), except for the past
three weeks, when we've had much needed rain. It has snowed in the mountains
adding to our precious snowpack water supply for our reservoirs. We are an
agricultural and petroleum producing area, and our local economy has depended on
those areas economically for years. We have a long growing season. Nighttime
temperatures usually don't fall below the 40's even in the middle of winter, and
many of our annual plants phase into perennials because of that. Sometimes we do
get surprised, however, with a late frost (mid-February, usually). Temperatures
in the summer soar, and it gets hot for a long time, cooling off near the last
of October (Halloween).

We look forward to participating in this project, and I ask you to bear with us;
I am a "rookie" at on-line projects, and many of my students know more about
computing than I. Thank you for letting us join you, and we look forward to a
wonderful learning experience for us all. If we can do anything or provide
anything, please contact me at: stiernj@bcsd.k12.ca.us

Thank you again!
Jeff Stiern's 5/6 One-Day GATE Class

Sincerly,
Brendan Murphy
(student teacher)
Sheryyl Vormittag
(teacher)
Our Lady of Ransom School
8300 Greenwood Ave
Niles Il 60071

    Kenosha is a city in southeastern WI. We have a population of about 85,000. Kenosha is 45 minutes south of
Milwaukee and 1 hour north of Chicago, Illinois.  We are two eighth grade students, Jennifer and Kelsey, and we are
working on this for the District Tech Fair with our teacher Mrs.. Glembocki. Kenosha is at an elevation of 600 feet.
Our latitude is 42 32N, our longitude is 87 48E.  Our average temperature over the course of the year is 46.3 degrees
Fahrenheit.  Our lowest temperature ever is -31 degrees Fahrenheit, the highest temperature ever was 103 degrees
Fahrenheit.  We usually get snow between the months  of late November to early April.  During the summer the
temperature usually reaches 100 maybe a few degrees more or less.  On average our precipitation is about 33.2 inches
per year.

    We attend Lance Middle School, grades 6 to 8.  We have approximately 1000 students as of the 1999-2000 school
year.  We are in the Summit House.  A house is a group of the four main school subjects: Math, Science, Social
Studies, and Language Arts. Kelsey takes Computer Applications as an elective and Jennifer is a Spanish 1 student.

    This is the first time any of us has done an online project. We are interested in seeing the results, and we'd like to
chat if possible.

From:
Mrs.. Glembocki, Kelsey Olson, and Jennifer Deeter
Lance Middle School
Kenosha Wisconsin USA

Mrs.. Glembocki: mamichka@yahoo.com
Jennifer Deeter: rdnd@powerlynk.com

Greetings,
We at St. Attracta's Senior National School  Dublin, Ireland, would be delighted to partake
in the Sunenergy Project.Below is a copy of our school's website. We look forward to the
experiments. We are a sixth class here.There are 32 people in our class ,15 boys and 17
girls. Our teacher's name is Ger O Se. We have had him since 5 th class. Every year at Easter
we decorate a very large Easter egg and it is hung in our local shopping centre. In fourth
class we did a write a book project, so I am pretty sure we will enjoy doing this one too.

Cheers for now.
Chris Ward
 
 

Welcome
To the home page of
St. Attracta's Senior School
Meadowbrook
Dublin 16
In our school there are 411 pupils. Our school caters for children from third to sixth class.
It was opened in 1981. In our school we have a library and a computer room, which has 17
computers in it, 16 IBM and 1 Apple Mac (which we won). We have 15 teachers, 2 secretaries, 1
classroom assitant and two caretakers. We also have a junior school, St. Attracta's J.N.S.,
on the same campus which caters for junior infants to 2nd class. There are 17 teachers in the
school. They have 3 computers, 2 IBM's and 1 BBC and a library. It was built in 1976. It was
opened on the first of July 1978. There are 470 pupils in the school. Every year the junior
school has an Art's Awareness Day in honour of Ms. Lee their first principal who died in
1986, and a Sports Day. In the races the children can win different coloured rosettes, red
for first, blue for second and yellow for third. In the senior school there is also a Sports
Day, and we also have Sports- for-all-day and Book Week. Both schools have a Book Fair each
year. In the Book Fair 50% of the proceeds go to the school so we can buy new books for our
school library.
To find out a little more about our school
choose one of these items!
Christmas Rotating Stories

Netd@ys Rotating Story Project

DWEC Computer Teacher's Support Group - Inter School Newspaper Project 1997

Global School Net Foundation Newsday Project - Fall 1996

Our Story Writing

Healthy Eating Project

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Please click HERE if you would like to send us a message.

The James Still Learning Center is located in Hindman, KY USA at 37.58 N and
82.71 W.  We are a non-graded K-8 school for children with learning
differences.  We have a total of 32 students, 4 certified teachers and an
aide.  Eleven students (grades 6-8) will be participating in the project.
Mrs. Ann Titsworth is the teacher of this middle grade science class.

The area in which we are located is hilly.  We are on the western edge of
the Appalachian Mountains.  The economy is based mainly on coal production;
both deep mines and strip mines. Winters are relatively cold with several
snows from 3-6 inches deep on the average.  We experience all four seasons
and are now enjoying an early spring.

Our email address is atitsworth@knott.k12.ky.us.  Our snail mail address is:
James Still Learning Center
P.O. Box 844
Hindman, KY 41822
USA

Greetings from Mill Pond Elementary in Lacey Township!!  We are a 6th grade
Science class working on this project. We are located in central New Jersey
at 47 Latitude and 74 Longitude.  We receive an average of 47 inches of
rainfall each year.  We have 4 distinct seasons:  in the Winter, the
temperature averages 32 degrees, in the spring 50 degrees, summer 73 degrees
(although it gets much hotter: most days are in the 80's or 90's), and our
fall is cool, averaging 45 degrees.

We have no computers linked to the internet in our classrooms yet, but once a
week, we have Internet Research class, where there are 30 computers connected
to the internet.

We have been studying Solar Energy for almost a month now, and this project
that one of the students, Vienne Z., discovered, directly ties into our
studies.  It would be interesting to learn how other parts of the world
experience the Sun as well. We also look forward to communicating via the
Internet with other schools.  Our e mail address for this project is:
SloanScience@hotmail.com
Mrs. Sloan
Mill Pond Elementary School
210 Western Boulevard
Lanoka Harbor, NJ 08734
From, Mrs. Sloan's Science Classes