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Lesson Plans

Unit:

Community Helpers

Title:

Mail Carrier

Center:

Dramatic Play Center

Center Rotation:

Week 3

Grade Level:

Kindergarten

Standards:

 

 

 

                 

Communication /Language Arts Standard Listening and Viewing Indicator 2: follow simple rules for conversations, e.g., taking turns.

Theater/ Dramatic Arts:  students will use theater as a means for creative self-expression and interpersonal communication

Objectives:

The students will learn how to be a mail carrier.  The center will be set up as a post office.

Activities:

The students will dress up in mail carrier clothes; they will have a mailbag and pretend letters to put in the mailboxes. They will have pretend stamps to sell and use a rubber stamp to cancel the letters.

Materials Needed:

Mail carrier clothes, mail bag, mailboxes, envelopes, stamper, ink pad, pretend stamps and rubber date stamp

Assessment:  

Teacher observation during Center time

Resources:

My own idea

Extensions:

Have a class mail carrier to deliver the class mail everyday.

Ask a mail carrier to come to the classroom to speak to the class.

Visit the post office

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