We had a great time with our Five in a Row book Mailing May by Michael O. Tunnel. It is about a little girl who is mailed to her grandmother's house via the US Postal Service on a train. It is really cute.
My kids were most excited that the setting was in Idaho. We have some good friends from there, so the lights went on in immediately with this one. The kids both talked about what it was like in Idaho with our friend, and we viewed photos from the Idaho tourist website. They both learned that you can do lots of cool outdoor sports in Idaho. Also, that potatoes are grown there.
We had a wonderful visit with Nana at the university post office where she works. Not only did the kids enjoy the mail cart rides, they also learned about how Nana does some of her job. It was neat to see how it is sorted. We watched a video on the entire process of the mail and also learned more about postcards. We enjoyed a postcard exchange with all of our FIAR friends over the summer. I put those postcards to good use in a geography/mapping activity. We put the postcards in a lapbook, and identified where each one came from on the map, using our map skills. We learned about North, South, East and West. We learned about grid maps, and how to use the index of an atlas. We are continuing this throughout the month.
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