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 |