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A round of applause to all of you who helped with the postal unit. The
teacher involved will really appreciate your suggestions. I'm sending out
the HIT rather rapidly, so there may be more responses. If they are
different from the current ones, I'll post an updated HIT at a later time.

Hits about the post office:

P.O.--my teachers like the NationalGeo video on the Post Office
and also use The Jolly Postman book.
--Julia

The USPS has a program , I believe its free, dealing with setting up an
inschool mail system. For some reason I have the name "Wee Deliver" stuck
in my head. Try contacting the largest Post office in your area.

Also she can use any of the "postman" books (author's name  escapes me,
Ahlerg?)
Maybe get other schools to send her class postcards from their states.
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Suzanne Weinheimer, Library Media Specialist


A Letter to Amy by Keats
My Friend Kate series by Brisson (two books of letters written while on a
trip)
Stringbeans Trip to the Shining Sea by Williams
The Jolly postman by Ahlberg???
Postcards from the Universe (a BIG book)
Flat Stanley (gets mailed around places)


Have fun!!!

-Kate Stirk

  Can't help with the first part of your post; however, I
listed a number of titles below that are excellent for the unit
about letters/post office.  Also, if you aren't already
familiar with the book, A to Zoo, it is wonderful!  It provides
subject access to children's picture books.  Authors are
Carolyn W. Lima and John A. Lima; publisher is R.R. Bowker.
Cost approximately $50, but well worth it.

Ahlberg, Janet.  The jolly postman.
                 The jolly pocket postman.
Baker, Keith.  The dove's letter.
Bell, Norman.  Linda's airmail letter.
Brandt, Betty.  Special delivery.
Brisson, Pat.  Your best friend, Kate.
Caseley, Judith.  Dear Annie.
Gibbons, Gail.  The post office book: mail and how it moves.
James, Simon.  Dear Mr. Blueberry.
Keats, Ezra Jack.  A letter to Amy.
Leedy, Loreen.  Messages in the mailbox: how to write a letter.
Martin, Ann M.  Mary Anne's bad -luck mystery.
Palazzo-Craig, Janet.  A letter to Santa.
Ross, Lillian Hammer.  Buba Leah and her paper children.
Schumacher, Claire.  Tommy the winner.
Selway, Martina.  Don't forget to write.
Siracusa, Catherine.  No mail for mitchell.
Wild, Margaret.  Thank you, Santa.
Ziegler, Sandra.  A visit to the post office.

              Kathy Keeney


Cynthia Rylant's _Mr. Griggs' Work_ is about  a postal worker.
              Marcia Garman Zorn



Instructions for "Tiskit/Tasket" game:

Children sit in a circle with their hands behind their backs.  One child
carries a basket with a piece of paper in it and goes around the outside of
the circle.  The child drops the "letter" into another child's hand, who then
must get up and chase the "deliverer" who is trying to reach the receipients
now empty spot.  If caught, the deliverer must sit in the middle of the
circle (time to be determined by teacher).  The receipient now become the
deliverer.

Michele Pozner

Gayle, I remember playing this game as a child.  What a treat to have it
recalled to me.  All the players except one stand in a circle.  The one
who is it has a handkerchief or other object and skips around the circle
while singing the song repeating the last refrain "I dropped it, I
dropped it..." until she actually drops it behind one of the persons
standing in the circle.  That person must turn around, pick up the object
and chase the "it" around the circle.  If the "it" makes it around the
circle and back to the spot without being caught then the next person
becomes "it"; otherwise she must go another round.

I grew up in Virginia during the 60s.  We played this game a lot along
with London Bridge, Mother May I, and Red Rover.

Sue Kimmel

Recalling from my earlier days, "it" would skip around behind the backs of the
other children in a circle while the song was being sung.  When you came to
the line
"and he dropped it , he dropped it..." "it" would drop the hankie or
whatever behind
someone who would then have to get up and chase "it" until they caught "it"
or reached
their original spot.  If they caught "it," they could sit down.  If not,
they were the
new "it."
Have fun, Laurel Brunell

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Gayle Hodur
ghodur@redshift.com


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