Connect With the Troops

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This is being billed as a ‘classroom project’ but I have read the rules and it looks as though homeschoolers can participate. It looks like a great project for those of you with kids who like to scrapbook!

From the site:

The “World’s Largest Scrapbook – with messages for the troops” came about as a result of numerous requests from teachers who were looking for a creative collective method for their students to send their messages of support to the troops.

Letters to the troops are certainly always appreciated! Just recently, we received an email back from a soldier who stated: “It really feels good to hear from you all. Makes us feel good here knowing that you are back home supporting us! The cookies were great too!”

Here we have embraced a method of scrapbooking and designed a series of free downloads for your students to use. We also have included Lesson Plans that will assist you in making this activity into a learning experience.

We encourage your input and creativity. We will include essays, journaling projects and messages. We look forward to building a scrapbook that will be a one-of-kind for our troops. We want to hear from you and your students, and welcome any personal articles and thank-you’s. Page format is 8 ½” x 11″.

We respectively request that all pages/content submitted be appropriate in design and content for our mission: support the troops. We also ask that you do not include any last names of the students, or home addresses. Deadline is December 31, 2007.

Click here for the official submission guidelines.