“Dear Little Red Haired Girl,” Charlie Brown writes. Or “Dear Mom and Dad.”
Letters are a big part of Peanuts. Sometimes they were printed. Sometimes they were in longhand. They are a reminder of the era when we wrote letters to friends and relatives on paper. Some of us even saved all our letters.
The art of letter writing, while mostly lost, is a great summer tool for teaching students how to organize their thoughts, practice cursive, and tell a story.
My sixth grader has taken off for California, but we agreed that we would be pen pals while he is there.
Time to run out and make sure I have those Snoopy stickers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/books/art-of-writing-letters.html