Lets Say Thanks

Our February Book of the Month is The Impossible Patriotism Project by Linda Skeers with illustrations by Ard Hoyt. Patriotism is having a love for your country. In this book Caleb is challenged by his teacher to come up with a project to represent Patriotism. Caleb's peers have no problem coming up with great project ideas like a papier-mache Liberty Bell and a poster of the 50 states but Caleb can't think of anything. Finally, Caleb comes up with a fabulous Patriotism Project... but you'll have to read the book to find out Caleb's idea! In order to further study Patriotism, The Lipsky Team visited Let's Say Thanks, a sight that supports American troops fighting overseas. At http://www.letssaythanks.com/ you can pick a postcard to send to an American solider and write a personal message inside. The postcards were all designed by students just like us! You can see Miss Lipsky's favorite above and the class' favorite below. It is free to send as many cards as you like (this sight is sponsered by the Xerox company) so please visit and send, send, send! One way we can all be Patriotic is by supporting the troops that leave their friends and families to fight for their country (some of those troops are moms and dads of members of The Lipsky Team!)


As our homework on Tuesday, Miss Lipsky had us do our own Patriotism project. Come back soon to see the amazing postcards we designed!