Today the meetup is starting its community worker series. We started with the post office. Well, we started off discussing what a community is and what takes place in it. We discussed stores, libraries, fire stations, police stations, etc.we discussed what you can buy in a store.
Then Leslie read three books about what goes on behind-the-scenes in a post office. Then she read about mail carriers in general and how they have to deliver the mail in all sorts of weather. This was to show self-discipline, perseverance, and sense of duty (civil duty).
Then we handed out Popsicle sticks with different workers on them. A description of the community worker was read and when each kid's community worker was called, they had to raise their stick.
Then after this, I discussed the format of a letter and they had choices. The first was to write a letter. The second was that they could cut and paste the parts of a letter that was given to them in the right order in the given squares for the various parts. Another activity that they could do was making an envelope from scratch.
Megan chose to write a letter. It was soooooo impressive. She set it up right, drew dotted lines on the sheets of paper, Made and labeled her own envelope and is going to mail it out. She wrote a letter to Lillian. Apparently Amanda helped her spell appreciate, as she told her that appreciates Lillian coming over.
Then she did a little post office math. She counted by 5's to solve a math problem related to what kind of letter a kid could send with some nickels and a penny.
She was asked what the boy could buy and she told Leslie, since it was 0.46 cents, the boy could mail a postcard or a letter. Then I had Megan tell me the difference in price. That is,if he mails a post card, how much money would
he have over. She did this on paper, and then we did it with money itself.
