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We used Microsoft Works to write our messages and then we used the software program Eudora to send our messages.
We needed to find out a way to get the quilt to children in Puerto Rico. Senora Rivera contacted a TV reporter who works for Tele Once (Television Eleven) in Santurce, Puerto Rico to ask her to help us.
The news reporter was happy to receive the quilt and show it on TV. After that she would help get the comfort quilt to schools and shelters to comfort children. We sent an email message to the news reporter:
October
16, l998 Dear
Weather News Reporter, We
have a comfort quilt that we are sending to you to show
people in Puerto Rico and to give to some children who need
comforting after the hurricane. We hope that the people in
Puerto Rico like the quilt. We put smiling faces on the
comfort quilt because we wanted people to feel better.
We
used fabric crayons to draw our happy faces on paper first.
Then we ironed the pictures onto white cloth. We used our
math to figure out how many fabric spaces we needed to make
rows and columns of blue and white fabric in between the
faces. The quilt has a front, and soft stuffing in the
middle, and a backing. There are twenty-five patches in the
quilt. Please
send us an email to let us know the quilt has arrived. Thank
you giving the quilt to the children in Puerto Rico.
From,
Mrs. Rennebohm Franz's Class
We sent also sent messages to our school friends in Puerto Rico. Groups of two and three children in our class used our writing process (prewrite, draft, edit, revise & publish) on our classroom computers to create our email messages for our school friends. We wanted to tell them about the comfort quilt we were making for children in Puerto Rico.
We used the Spanish words that we had learned from our school Spanish lessons and from our classroom Spanish dictionaries and we used our English words to write the email messages.
1
de Octubre del l998 Hola
School Friends, Gracias
por el email.
Es
son enviando comforting quilt to a TV Weather News
reporter. First
she will show the quilt on TV then she will send it to some
of the children in Puerto Rico.Then we will make another
quilt and send it to you in Puerto Rico. We
hope none of your things were damaged and you did not lose
things that are really important to you. We're
glad that nobody in your family got
hurt.
We
hope none of your friends got
hurt.
We
were worried when we heard that Georges was going to enter
Puerto Rico. From,
Daphne, Nancy and Daisy in Mrs. Rennebohm Franz's
Class.
October 1, 1998
Dear School
Friends, We are sending
comfort quilts to Puerto Rico. They will be on TV. We are
sending them to the Weather News Reporter at TeleOnce in
Puerto Rico. We are glad you
and your family are safe. We hope the rest of the isla is
safe. Each of us drew a picture of our face. We colored them
with fabric crayons. We also ironed them to fabric. We are
sewing the quilts to a blue background. Sincerely, Rose
and Frances in Mrs. Rennebohm Franz's class.
October
1, l998 Dear
School Friends, We
are sending comfort quilts to Puerto Rico to the news and
they will be on TV. We hope you will like them! We are going
to have all of our faces on them. Will you look for the
quilt on TV and send back email to us if you see them? We
feel bad that the hurricane came to Puerto
Rico. from
Josephine and Scott in Mrs. Rennebohm Franz's
Class
1
de Octubre del l998 Hola
School Friends, Es
son happy that you son bien!!! Gracias por la dos emails es
loved haya. Esperamos your amigos son not haga. Es son
sending un happy quilt. Has your casa got damaged? Do you
have animales in your casa? Si you do es they are not haga.
Haya you casa flooded? Has the hurcan passed el isla? A
smile can go a long, long way. From
Jo and A.J. in Mrs. Rennebohm Franz's Class
October
1, l998 Dear
School friends and all the children in Puerto Rico,
We
hope el comfort quilt comforts you. We hope you are O.K. and
that Hurrican Georges didn't hurt you. el comfort quilt is
going to be on T.V. Sincerely, Joan
and J.P. in Mrs. Rennebohm Franz's Class
10/1/98
Click here to learn more about sending the quilts by mail to children in Puerto Rico.
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Classroom Index | 1. Hurricane News | 2. Making the Quilts | 3. Sending Quilt Email | 4. Sending Quilts | 5. Thanks from Puerto Rico | 6.Hurricane Exhibit at Children's Museum