“I just thought wow what a better way to have a pen pal program, to have these kids, they can work on their writing skills,” said Valerie Krieger, 4th grade teacher and founder of Operation Save.

And keep in mind, you might write someone a letter and they might not write you back, or maybe your pen pal relationship will fizzle out over time. Syme says, that's OK. SYME: It's OK.

Well, now we have a story about two unlikely pen pals - 17-year-old high schooler Michelle Liu from McLean, Virginia, and her 80-year-old friend, Sue Miller. SUE MILLER: I think you were 3.

Ben Greco didn’t realize how impactful puffy stickers could be. In a letter addressed to second-grader Ben Guedes, the finance and marketing major from Franklin, Massachusetts, adhered multiple puffy ...

For months, third graders at Crooked Lake Elementary in Andover, Minnesota have been trading letters with pen pals a few generations older. On Friday, they finally met face-to-face.

The pen pal program, Senior2Senior, came to Davie County High School English teacher Ashley Snider as she thought about a previous project where students wrote letters to children called "Letters ...

"The pen pal idea, I didn’t expect it to be this big," Carpenter said. "By the first meeting, we had eight people show up. By the second or third meeting, we had 30 or 40. It just kept growing." ...

Pen pal program: Coloma 4th graders work on writing skills, form friendships with veterans Raelynn Lee,WSBT22Reporter Tue, May 27th 2025 at 4:59 PM Updated Tue, May 27th 2025 at 7:13 PM 9 ...