You've Got Mail!

Too busy to turn around and smile for The International Educator, two SSIS Kindergarten Mail Carriers get down to business (photo: D. Nguyen/SSIS).

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The Kindergarten Postal Service is a fun-filled educational project that our Kindergartners engage in here at Saigon South International School, and this past school year marked our second annual Kindergarten Postal Service project/event. It is a great activity that creates excitement throughout the school and encourages students, teachers, staff, parents and siblings to write and send mail to students and people who work in the Early Childhood/Elementary School.

The Kindergarten students and their teachers are busy prior to the scheduled week, preparing their post boxes, mail hats, mail baskets and large mail graph. During the week of delivery, each Kindergarten class has a mail route and delivery zone. They empty their corresponding post box, hand stamp-cancel, and look over the pieces of mail before sorting them by room number into that classroom’s mail basket. They also count the number of pieces delivered to each class each day, and update the wall mail graph.

SSIS' Kindergarten Mail Carriers often begin the week on the shy side, and deliver in small teams; but this quickly fades as they develop confidence and excitedly boom, “YOU HAVE MAIL!” as they enter classrooms for deliveries. The kindergartners provide a service to the school, reinforce their number recognition, sorting, and graphing skills and also learn more about their school, their building, and the people they share it with.

It is a very real activity, which makes for lasting lessons and fond memories. During the 2013 "mail season," Kindergarten Mail Carriers delivered 1,855 pieces of mail during the week!

Mr. Flesher is a Kindergarten teacher at SSIS.

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