A pen pal program at Oak Crest Senior Living is connecting seniors with third graders at Kingsville Elementary School, ...

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 ...

One of the teachers, Donna Arntson, retired in 1985 when the term "tick-tock" only referred to the sound of a clock hanging on a wall rather than an entire subculture. Katie Van Sickle, a retired ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- An important field trip for a group of Pearson's Corner Elementary School second graders to Hermitage Richmond Senior Living began with a serenade. But the point of the trip was for ...

What happened this week in the Pound Middle School library started as a writing project, a way to get students to improve on all those annoying details. Punctuation. Grammar. Spelling. Teacher Anica ...

The lost art of letter writing was recently revived in Pomeroy Living senior living communities, providing a technology-free way for senior citizens to connect with people of all ages. “I decided to ...

After writing as pen pals since the first of the year, 51 Willett Elementary fourth-graders and their “senior buddy pen pals” at nearby Atria Covell Gardens exchanged gifts and letters in person for ...

Students at a North Carolina high school are breaking stereotypes, getting encouragement and gaining new texting buddies as part of a pen pal program with older adults. The pen pal program, ...

FISHER — Fifty senior citizens and the same number of Fisher Grade School students will assemble in the school cafeteria Tuesday morning, May 17, for a program with their pen pals. The seniors will ...

Bridges Community School fourth grader Mollie Miller and her senior volunteer pen pal Mick Emehiser might be years apart in age, but since they started writing this past fall, they’ve found out they ...