Hi Everyone,
I just wanted to send you all a friendly reminder that you signed up for the Post Office Imaginary Play center. Listed below are your fellow committee members
Group Coordinator: Person A (2 Day)
It is the Group Coordinators job is to delegate jobs to everyone else. To make sure that everyone is helping as necessary. To keep up with communications between group members as well as to make sure that when collecting donations that everyone knows where to go so that everyone doesn’t go to the same exact store. The Group Coordinator must also keep track of all items needed and collected so that they can ensure the Imaginary Play area has all that is needed. The group coordinator is also responsible for setting up a date where everyone can get together to create the Imaginary Play theme and also to decide who will be helping with clean up.
I know it sounds like a lot but don’t worry I am always here to help and I am more than happy to do so.
*Here is an idea for delegation you change the job description or needs as necessary
* Everyone helps with setup and takedown
Members: Person B (Class) Collect Donations and specific items
Person C (Class) Collect Donations and specific items
Person D (Class) Collect Donations and specific items
Person E (Class) Create Something Specific
Person F (Class) Create Something Specific
You will be responsible for setting up AND taking down this center. The setup date will be ---- and the take down date will be---- If you are unavailable it is YOUR responsibility to trade with someone from another month.
The School/ teacher Barbara has the Following:
• Post office bags
• Shirts
• Use kitchen units to make tables for Post Office
• Cash Register
• Scale?
You will need to Create, Collect, or get donations for the following:
• *MUST HAVE- Make a conveyer belt with turning handles use a large box (got to Bike Store ask for bike box)per Teacher Barbara
• A large mailbox (big box)
• Lots of Envelope’s scrap paper, pens/pencils, stickers, rubber stamps and ink pads,
• Does anyone have an old mailbox? If so bring it in maybe go to a hardware store ask for a donation?
• Go to the post office and get a bunch of empty priority mail boxes and whatever else you can get (seals and stickers etc)
• Make post office hats and badges
• Create a cubby space where the kids can put envelopes/ letters into different slots ( try BevMo or Trader Joes ask for donations of wine crates)
• Make a specific Teacher Barbara and Teacher Jackie mail Drop box
• Bring in small kid size tables for the kids to sit at and write
• Make a large sign that says LPPP Post OFFICE hang from loft
• Bubble wrap
• Post cards
• Junk Mail
• Scale (if the school doesn’t have one) ask TB
• Paper Punch
• Ask Post Office for the Bins to hold mail while on vacation sometimes they will donate
* What do you think about using the wine crates and labeling them, create our own letters so that if the children choose they can actually really sort the mail. We can use words, and perhaps shape sorting. So a name and a + sign so that readers and none readers can sort easily if they so choose.
• Buy $2 or $3 worth of 1 cent stamps for the kids to use
• Use voting booths as back drop
• Anything Else you can think of?
Go Here for the Donations letter for the Post Office of basic items needed remember you can always add to it as needed. Simply Copy and Paste into a Word Document (change Font size as needed)Include the Base Donations Letter along with the specific Donations Letter for the unit you are working on
Please “REPLY TO ALL” and keep me in the loop with all emails so I can stay up to date with your progress and ideas.
Go Here for the Donations letter for the Post Office of basic items needed remember you can always add to it as needed. Simply Copy and Paste into a Word Document (change Font size as needed)Include the Base Donations Letter along with the specific Donations Letter for the unit you are working on
Please “REPLY TO ALL” and keep me in the loop with all emails so I can stay up to date with your progress and ideas.
Our Post Office Sign
We added a sign with prices of postage etc
The Post Office counter consists of registers scales and postage and microphones so they can call out for who is next
Back of the post Office Counter
Lots of envelopes
Plenty to sell
We turned the upstairs loft area into a writing center which includes two mailboxes one for each of the Teachers
The are envelopes, stamps, paper, markers, and more to create all the letters for sending and sorting
Mail bags for carrying the mail
Very cool Mailbox it even has a door in the back to pull all the mail out
The Letter sorting game
A letter game I created with small boxes to further their sorting
Each box has an Upper case and lower case letter they also need to be sorted into the right larger box with assigned letters
Racks for all the boxes and sorting
Plenty to mail in these great boxes
Shirts for the Post Office employees
Hats for the employees
We created badges for the children to wear
Our Mail chute
The mail shoot is connected to the top of the loft where the writing center is so after the children have written a letter it can be sent down the mail shoot to the conveyor belt where it can then be sorted and sent off to the mail truck to be delivered.
There is also a mail bin with some bags for carrying letters and packages to the mail truck.
The mail lands on the conveyor belt
The inside of the mail truck has an awesome shelf
The back of the mailbox
Front of the mailbox
Instructions on how to build the Mail Boxes above are in the link below
http://notjustcute.com/2009/02/18/how-to-build-a-mailbox-for-your-preschool-post-office/
