{"id":3814,"date":"2022-03-18T16:06:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2022-03-18T16:06:31","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T23:06:31","slug":"letters-to-soldiers-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/letters-to-soldiers-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student Contributor -M. Russell
\nThis organization, Soldier’s Angels<\/a>, is something that allows everyone to support our soldiers in so many different ways. There are multiple different teams included in this organization include card and letter writing team, angel bakers team, chaplain support team, deployed adoptions team, ladies of liberty team, and special operations forces team. All of these aspects of the organization provide some kind of support and help for soldiers that might not get it from other sources. It shows the soldiers that they are loved and appreciated by a lot of people around them. For this project, I chose to register for the card writing team and send some letters from my kindergarteners to the soldiers.\"\"<\/p>\n

After researching this organization and getting in contact with someone from the team, I finally got the chance to work with my students on what their job was. I started with a discussion of what a soldier is and all of the things that they do for our country, including how they protect us. I showed the students my example letter and helped them write out the message we decided to send which was \u201cI am thankful for your service.\u201d They then drew whatever picture they wanted to in the space above the words. They used lots of colors and got really creative with what they wanted to soldiers to receive. It was super cool to see the way the kids were so interested in this project and how happy they were that I was actually sending the letters. This idea is a quick and easy service for the community that can be done by anyone and everyone in the school. It is a way to show kindness to the people who protect us and it helps us give back in a way that can be forgotten sometimes. A simple letter can be so powerful for someone to receive, especially in hard times and from a young student they do not even know.<\/p>\n

\"\"I thought the project went really well. The kids were super engaged in writing the letters and genuinely enjoyed the process, which was really cool to see. A lot of them took their time on their drawings and really wanted it to be something the soldiers were going to like. Most of the parts of my plan worked well, and I was happy to be able to do it with the whole group of students. There were a couple kids that I had to modify things for a little bit because they struggle with their writing, so they had to trace the letters that we wrote for them. It was good though because we still got to see their handwriting over ours. Another aspect of it that I would have liked to be more prepared for was introducing the topic and explaining the \u201cwhy\u201d of it all to the kids a little better. I would tell anyone that was trying to do this same project to allow your students to write whatever they want for the letter if you are in an upper grade level. Since I did this with a kindergarten class, it was a little bit harder to do this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This organization is something that allows everyone to support our soldiers in so many different ways. There are multiple different teams included in this organization include card and letter writing team, angel bakers team, chaplain support team, deployed adoptions team, ladies of liberty team, and special operations forces team. All of these aspects of the organization provide some kind of support and help for soldiers that might not get it from other sources. It shows the soldiers that they are loved and appreciated by a lot of people around them. For this project, I chose to register for the card writing team and send some letters from my kindergarteners to the soldiers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2049,"featured_media":3815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,14,16],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-small-project","tag-3rd-5th-grade","tag-6th-8th-grade","tag-k-2nd-grade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2049"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3819,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/3819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inside.ewu.edu\/civicengagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}