The children in my reception class receive emails from family members and others regularly, and send replies. But our most fun project to date has to be e-mailing Father Christmas. A grandad who had been writing in all term to his grand-daughter had offered to write to other children who were not getting such regular e-mails. The content of the messages he had been sending showed he had a great respect for four-year-olds and a good sense of humour, so I asked if he would take on the role of Father Christmas for a one-week project.
First we set up an e-mail account called 'SantaforPandas' - Pandas being our class name - and earmarked some specific mornings and afternoons when Santa could guarantee being at home and send prompt replies. Over the course of three such sessions the whole class sent their messages, dictating to me what they wanted to say and then clicking on 'Send'.
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