Stephen S. Wise School Los, Angelas, California USA

Dear Judy,
How are you?
I like to travel. It is so much fun to travel in Israel. There are beautiful views here.
I want top tell you about our travels. We like to travel in the north of Israel. This is a map of the north of Israel:

The small lake called "Cineret". Our drink water is from this lake. This is the "Cineret":

The big sea is the "Yam Hatihon".
We like to walk in the "Banyas" river. This is a beautiful and interesting river. There are a lot of birds and trees there. This is the "Banyas":

We like to travel in the bigest mountian in all of the country- the "Golan". It's a wonderful place with no noise. You cant see from there beautiful views that you will not see ever. This is the Golan:

A lot of people go to travel in the Golan on the holidays. There are holidays that we can't find rooms in hotels, because everybody take the rooms!

There are a lot of cities in the north. There is a big city in the north, its name is Haifa. There is a good soccer team in Haifa, big buildings and a big mall. You can understand that there are a lot of malls in Israel... this is a very popular place in Haifa, its name is "The gate of the Baha'im".

This is the place:

This is a picture of the center of Haifa

What is the place that you like very much?
Doy uo go to travel there a lot of times?
Do you want that I will tell you about the south of Israel?
Good-bye,
Michal G, Marsha and the 6th grade at Ein Ganim Israel

Thank you for your message and beautiful pictures of Israel.
We are a group of 6th grade students at Stephen S.
Wise Elementary School in Los Angeles. It is a Jewish private school. The eight of us writing to you are a group of students in a special technology program called Generation Yes.

It is a national and even international program that develops leaders in technology to work with teachers in our school. You can learn about the program at its website www.genyes.org.

In 6th grade the topic of our Jewish studies classes is ancient and modern Israel. Therefore we are very interested in learning more about Israel by communicating with you---and not just reading books about Israel. One of us, Tom goes to Israel every summer to visit family and friends. Most of his family is from Ra'anna.
We also like to spend time in shopping malls in Los Angeles. Right now in Los Angeles area their are a lot of wildfires because of the dry conditions.

We are all safe at our school, but have not been having physical education classes outdoors because of the bad air quality and ashes blowing from the fires.
In L.A. we have lots of movie theaters and many movies are made in Hollywood which is about 20 miles from us.

Next time we write we will send you some pictures of ourselves and our school and city. L'hitraot,
The Gen Yes club at Stephen Wise.
Teacher Judy Eber

Dear Michal and Nofar,
We are Rose and Tom. We are part of a 6th grade computer group called Generation Did. Rose is the only girl in the group. Tom was born in China, and Rose in California. Tomās parents are from Israel, though, and Roseās are both from America.
We are typing this in our computer lab at our school, Stephen S. Wise Temple Elementary School. We've attached a couple of pictures of our school.

Tom goes to Israel a lot: every year in the summer, no matter what. Rose has never even been to Israel. Neither have a few other people in Gen Did, and we all thank you for your interesting pictures of historic sites in Israel.

We live in California. Have any of you seen the "Terminator" movies? The "Terminator" is our new governor (Arnold Schwarzenegger)! He won the recent election when our old governor, Gray Davis, was removed from office in a recall election.

We have to get back to class now, but we'll get back to you later. ---Rose and Tom P.S. Tom says his favorite television shows are Reshet and Yatzpan. Do you like them?

It's in the play area by our kindergarten and 1st grade classes. Every year the 6th grade graduating class leaves some kind of art project to the school.

This is one of our play yards where we have physical education classes, recess free time, and after school sports.