From

Bailey

Dear, Our Brazilian Friends,

            Hi, my name is Bailey and I’m in Mrs.Brachbill’s 5^th grade class and I think it is so cool that you guys are trying to make a difference in your environment. In our arboretum we have about 50 trees. We are having a Nest Project and we have about 15 nests around our school and in our arboretum. Everyone is paired up in groups of 2 and 3 people. As you can, see we are doing a lot of projects this year. The pictures we drew of ourselves we did in the beginning of the year. We are happy to keep in touch with you. My mom has a good friend from Brazil.
             Love,
             Your Friend,
             Bailey

From

Lesley

Hi, I think it is cool that you guys are trying to help your environment. Keep at it. You can make a difference. In the trees in our arboretum we have found robin nests and a couple of doves nests. Doves and robins are very popular in this area. I hope your arboretum will grow full of many new trees and that your goals for the arboretum are met. When we first started this arboretum we had goals and now that all of our goals are met, especially the one we made to have a chipped path that we just finished we are making new ones. I wish you and your arboretum the best.

         Sincerely,

         Lesley

Dear Brazilian Friends,

My name is Brooke. I love the idea of planting trees. You are doing a great thing for the Earth. Planting trees is a good way to show people that they need to take care of the environment.

  Sincerely,

  Brooke

Dear Friends in Brazil,

  Hi, my name is Kenzie. I am 11 years old, I’m in 5^th grade and in Mrs.Brachbill’s (Nancy) class. I love seeing your pictures. Your trees look nice. Do you know how many trees you have? I think we have about 50 trees! But they are not very big trees. It is a lot of fun in the arboretum, getting to run around and look at nature. I love to look at nature and help nature, the more we help, the more we have. We have a lot of fun with our arboretum and I hope you have fun, too! 

            P.S That picture of me I drew (I draw bad), so I’m not made of crayon, I look a bit different. Now my hair is a little shorter. 

Your U.S.A friend,

 Kenzie!

Dear friends, my name is Alexander and I think it’s awesome that all of you are planting trees and helping the environment. I really hope we can meet sometime. I’m really looking forward to it.

Sincerely,

Alexander 

Dear friends,

From

Reghan

Dear, Brazilian Friends, Hello, my name is Reghan. I’m very excited to hear from you and your students. It is very cool to see your trees. They are beautiful! To me it is very cool to know that there is someone out there typing to us and sharing pictures with our class. It is very wonderful to see your trees and your beautiful students working on planting trees. I think it is very cool you want Mrs.Brachbill and Mr.Ghere to come and see your Arboretum. I think it is fun doing actives with nature. I hope you have fun to!!!!!  Love your friend,

Reghan

PS: Thanks you for your time 

From

Shelby

Dear, Friend,

My name is Shelby, Thank you for sending our 5^th grade class pictures of your wonderful class. We really enjoy looking at those pictures every once in a while. In one of your letters you ask Mrs. Brachbill and Mr. Ghere if there was any way that our 5^th grade class could come visit you in Brazil. I really hope that we can someday soon. We are almost done with school though because we get out in June! I thought that it is very unique that you are always sending pictures of you and your students, planting trees, because in Mattoon, Illinois where we live we have A LOT of tree here.

Thank you,

Your Friend,

Shelby

From

Hayden

Dear Brazilian friend,

    Hi, my name is Hayden, age11. I am so excited to meet you! I have heard that you have an arboretum. How large is it? Do you have any baseball fields over there? We have 3 baseball fields near my house. Right now we are beginning spring! Hope to talk to you soon.

Your friend,

Hayden

Hi my name is Shane; I think it’s great that you’re cleaning up your environment and we think this is an awesome project that you’re doing.

Hi my name is Dylan, I think its great that you guys are helping the environment and that you are planting trees and watering them. Thank you for everything you do.

Dear Friends,

            Hi my name is Cole, and I am 11. I like how you are planting different trees. Also it is cool having a Brazilian sister. And if I could I would go to Brazil and visit your school.

                               Sincerely,

                               Cole

Dear friend in Brazil,

My name is Brewster and I am 11 years old. I like what your do to help the world.

It is fun to grow plants.

Dear friends,

           I think Brazil sounds neat. I’m glad we have you as our sister Arboretum. I loved the pictures you sent us. We do a lot with the Arboretum. It’s fun to write to people in Brazil. How do you like your arboretum? It’s cool isn’t it? I love to be in the Arboretum. I think it’s fun to be outside walking in the Arboretum. Well, that’s all I can think of for now. Bye. 

           Love,

           Your Riddle friend,

           Hannah

From Zoe 

Dear Friends,

      I’m Zoe. I’ve participated in the arboretum Project RESCUE.

I’m 10 years old and in fifth grade. Here at Riddle, we are trying to help kids learn the value of nature with the arboretum. I personally would love to visit you arboretum in Brazil. Keep up the great work on protecting wildlife. I also would like to meet Lavina. We have 50 trees in our arboretum, 15 nests, and we are very dedicated to having an arboretum. I would also love for someone to be my pen-pal.

Sincerely,

Zoe

From

Jessica

Dear Friends,

            My name is Jessica. I am glad to see you girls and boys working  in your arboretum. We have about 50 trees in our arboretum. We also have some nests in our arboretum.  I think we have 3 nests in our arboretum. All together around our school we have 16 nests. I have two nests. I share my nests with Hayden. He is a kid in my class. 

                                                            Sincerely,

                                                            Jessica

From

Tyler 

Hi my name is Tyler. We did this project with nests. Our teacher gave us each a nest to do-to watch and see if they hatched. We had 3 eggs. They hatched and now they are all grown up.