Pre-school pen pals share, care in the name of reconciliation

An unlikely friendship between young learners from two Manitoba pre-schools 450 kilometres apart is being welcomed as a small act of reconciliation.

Despite the distance between the two centres and their children’s developing literacy skills, Winnipeg’s Oak Street Nursery School and Headstart Misipawistik Cree Nation in Grand Rapids have found a way to keep in touch.

Early childhood educators started a pen pal program this year to swap stories and pictures to expose their students to new friends and life in a community much different than their own.

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