I have such fond childhood memories of corresponding with my pen pal, but I remember that it was sometimes difficult to keep the correspondence going. With class pen pals, your students volition likely get stuck at some point. Sign up for The USPS Pen Pal Project, and take your students try this listing of questions to ask a pen pal to jump start their conversations:

Getting to know you

  • Who is in your family?
  • What three words best draw you?
  • What'southward a fun fact virtually you that most people don't know?
  • Who is your part model?
  • What'due south one thing you lot're really good at?
  • What is it similar where you live?
  • What's something you like that most people dislike?
  • What's something you dislike that most people similar?

Favorites

What is your favorite …

  • colour?
  • moving picture?
  • book?
  • show to lookout man?
  • fauna?
  • sport or activity?
  • game?
  • toy?
  • school discipline?
  • band or singer?

Hopes and dreams

  • What practice you lot want to be when you grow up?
  • If you lot could live anywhere, where would information technology be?
  • What's one affair y'all would change almost the world?

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All the feels

What makes you feel …

  • proud?
  • calm?
  • frustrated?
  • scared?
  • excited?

Never have I e'er

Take you e'er …

  • broken a bone?
  • been in a talent show?
  • had a pet?
  • learned some other language?
  • pulled out a loose tooth?

The last time

What was the last …

  • book yous read?
  • pic you watched?
  • dream you remember?
  • food you ate?
  • matter that made you laugh?

What if …?

  • If yous were granted three wishes, what would you wish for?
  • If you could have any superpower, what would it be?
  • If you were invisible for one day, what would you do?
  • If you won the lottery, how would you lot spend the money?

This or that?

  • Indoors or outdoors?
  • Cake or ice cream?
  • Pizza or tacos?
  • Mountains or desert?
  • Netflix or Disney+?
  • Winter or summer?
  • Unicorns or zombies?
  • Treehouse or castle?
  • Fiction or non-fiction?
  • Flip flops or sneakers?

Don't have a pen pal? No problem! If y'all're a 2d-6th grade instructor, head on over to The USPS Pen Pal Project and sign up to exist matched with another class. You'll also get a free letter-writing kit mailed to you!