The Post Office

The kids were so excited to see each again today.  It feels like forever since we last had school!  Everyone was excited to share all about their Thanksgiving....the foods they ate, the places they went and people they visited.....and there was even some talk about some Christmas decorations going up!

Ms. Michele was so excited to hear about our wonderful Thanksgiving meals! She had the kids take off their shoes for our first activity. Who knew that this would be so EXCITING???  For they whole body warm up, they crawled through a short tunnel, jumped on bubble wrap, and then jumped in and out of a circle.  Next we worked our muscles with a special tension band. The class had to pull the band, push the band, move it up and move it down.  And lastly, for our finger fun today the kids made "turkey soup". They used a variety of tweezers, tongs and chopsticks to pick up the different ingredients including packing peanuts, beans, and beads.

 

Our story today was "Send It" by Don Carter. In the story a boy sends a package to a friend far away. It travels on a truck, ship, airplane, train and finally the mail truck. Then the mail man delivered the package to another boy. Inside the package was his birthday present! After reading the story we talked about things we find in our mailbox. We get letters, magazines, cards and packages. We also discussed the different ways mail can travel before being delivers...it can go by truck, train, ship and airplane.

For art we made a special gift and wrapped it up like a package so we could deliver it. First, the kids used beads to make a bracelet. Once the bracelets were finished the kids used paper to wrap it  up into a package. We used tape to make sure the package was sealed tight. Then they had to address the package so that it would be sure to make it to the right person. They couldn't wait to deliver them at the end of the day!  We may have some future mail carriers in the bunch!!