Postcards to a school in another city

Children create greeting postcards and send them to a group in another locality, hoping for a reply.

Steps

1. Conversation: when and how we greet others, including people we do not know personally.
2. The teacher arranges in advance with a partner school or preschool in another town.
3. Children draw a postcard of their town on cardboard and write or dictate greetings.
4. Older children address the cards and stick stamps, younger ones walk together to the post office to mail them.
5. When replies arrive, you locate the senders' city on a map.

Tip: Partner groups are easily found in teacher community groups on social media or via eTwinning.

Materials needed

• White A6 cardstock for postcards (1 per child)
• Fineliners (1 set per 4 children)