The Kids on the Web: Pen Pals

Featured site: ePals

• Founded in 2004, Sincerely Yours Pen Pals is geared toward linking teacher to teacher so that they can allow their classrooms to buddy or pair up. Each individual child within each class is assigned a pen pal from the buddy class.
  
• Kids' Space Connection is an international meeting place for children and schoolteachers. Find penpals from around the world! Check out interesting projects you can contribute to, and cool clubs you can join.
  
• If you'd like, you could try joining Tiggy-wiggy's Pen Pal List!
  
• Intended for ages 10 and older, including adults, SAPE (called "The Soviet-American Penfriend Exchange" prior to 1991) matches people from all over the world with penpals in the former Soviet Union and the Baltic Nations. Since 1989, they've matched more than 50,000 pairs of penpals, but by the end of 1998 had more than 100,000 people from the CIS/Baltics waiting to be matched with a penpal. The penpals exchange via postal mail, not email.
  
• SmartALEC is an automatic eMail pen pal system and is intended to promote global communication via the Internet. You can enter your own profile into the pen pal database, along with a joke or kids recipe you would like to share.
  
• The its-online penpal section is designed to be used by students of English around the world and native English speakers who would like to exchange messages with students of English in other countries.
  
• All About Education is a pen pal service dedicated to keeping students and educators in contact with each other.
  
• Set up as part of a club named ``Girls Views'', GirlPals has been made available for girls between 8 and 16 years old, to write back and forth, talk about their hobbies, and the like.
  
• A Girl's World Pen Pal Spectacular is a safe place for girls to join the clubhouse and write with penpals from around the world.
  
• A Penpals Page has been set up for kids up to age 16. You can write, or post, back and forth with kids all over the place, about your particular interests and hobbies.
  
• Rigby's Keypals List lets you get in contact with students and teachers and classes around the world.
  
• Available in more than one language, KidsCom will let you post messages, send in your ideas or stories, or find a Key Pal.
  
• With the Electric Postcard, students can choose postcards, add messages to them, and deposit the "postcards" at the sites mail box. The person that the postcard is intended for is informed that it is waiting and given a code number to use to retrieve it.
  
• The Student Letter Exchange is the world's largest Pen Pal organization, with over half a million participants each year.
  
• There are two pen-pal exchanges oriented to gifted children; the Gifted Resources Pen-Pal Connection will help you find out how to take part in them.
  
• At Dave's E-Mail Connection for ESL/EFL Students you'll find folks from around the world who are mastering the English language, and would love to hear from you.
  
• KidWorld is a forum for children under 16 to share their artwork, writing, etc., with other kids.
  
• A fellow in South Korea has put together a Penpal Home Page which you can use as a starting point for getting connected with other kids around the world.
  
• In the International Kids' Space Penpal Box, you can find pen-pals from all over the world! There are 5 boxes by age groups, and a box for shools and classes.

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