Early this year we wrote thank you cards to soldiers in Kuwait! One of my student's dad is there and we wanted to thank him and his fellow soldiers for what they do everyday! And yesterday we got a letter back! My kiddos were SO excited! They were super happy and so we decided to use our formal letter template to write back and practice our letter writing skills! I also let them draw him pictures for him on the back! Here are some examples...
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I thought it was awesome that most of them wanted to write that they missed him and most of them haven't even met him! But I have taught them all year we are a team, a family, and we stick together, so they have our little soldier in my class' back! :-)