You may be wondering what was involved with running a postal service. Well, read on!
First, all the students brainstormed what they thought would be involved in running a post office from advertising to creating stamps and selling them, and all the jobs that we would need to do to make it work. We read several non-fiction books (and some fiction books, too) and invited a first grade parent to join us and share all about his job working for the U.S. Postal Service to make sure we hadn't missed anything. We heard all about big machines, busy days and even about some unfriendly dogs that may be encountered when delivering mail!
Then we got busy making signs, mailboxes and most importantly our hero stamps! We took a field trip to the Elkins Park Post Office to get a first-hand look at how it all comes together. Then bingo, we got our service up and running. We learned the value of different coins and how to add them together and how to make change if it was needed. We practiced sorting - a very important postal skill, and we even wrote lots of letters too! And, we went to Tyson House to use the stamp machine there to send our very special valentine cards to our families!
We had another first grade parent visit and share his extensive stamp collection with us. We even got to soak old stamps off of envelopes and start our own stamp collections in our own albums! It was great!
On another field trip we visited the post office where Benjamin Franklin worked andsaw a museum all about him! He was the first Postmaster General in our country!
You can see it is a lot of work and a lot of fun to run a post office. So please keep us busy for our final week and write lots of letters!!
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