Post Office 2016

I have blogged about my Post Office center in the past, and you can read those posts {HERE} and {HERE}, but please don’t try to download anything from those posts because they don’t exist.  Or they used to, but they don’t now.   Back in the olden days, I used to use something called Scribd and I don’t know why, and it’s not that friendly, and I can’t even remember my log-in to get the stuff that I used to put on there.

Log-ins drive me INSANE.

Who has time for log-ins?

NOT ME, that’s who.

So anyways, I’m here to discuss Post Office 2016 with you anyway.  Forget the other years.

I introduced this center about two weeks ago, and my kids are ALL. ABOUT. IT.  But they don’t call it the Post Office Center.  They call it the Writing a Letter to Someone Thing and/or The Mailbox Center and/or Are You Going to Deliver the Mail Today?

This is our new class mailbox!

(Do you see that liquid stuff on the butcher paper in the background?  That would be from last year when we had celery in a cup of food coloring for a science experiment.  And then someone spilled it.  And then I never changed the butcher paper out because , hello, if I don’t have time to log-in to something, I sure as heck don’t have time to change out butcher paper.)

My other class mailbox was an ACTUAL mailbox.  The kind that you could nail onto a post and put real, live letters in, with stamps, and an actual mailman  person would take them, and leave mail in it, too.

But I just used that real mailbox in my classroom.  An actual mailman person never saw it.

So, being that it was a REAL mailbox, it was GIGANTIC.

And black.

And ugly.

And, apparently, I threw it away this summer because when I went to get it out of the cupboard where I always keep it, it was not there.

And then I had this vague, nagging feeling that I threw it away, but I wasn’t too sure.

But I’m pretty sure I did.

So I ordered this little white one on Amazon and IT IS SO MUCH CUTER AND I LOVE THAT IT IS LITTLE AND WHITE and it only cost $10.

OBSESSED.

I took a picture of my stapler (which has who-knows-what on it, but let’s all just say it’s something from a science experiment in the hopes that you think I’m cool) next to it so you could see how little it is.

Anywho . . . I offer my kids four different kinds of writing stationery and lots of markers and pens, and I let them write to one another.  I don’t have envelopes or stamps available because I just want them to write.  And, in the interest of being open and honest, I don’t want to offer envelopes because that’s seriously overkill, and then they’ll either lick them closed and complain that it tastes disgusting (or that it tastes delicious), or they’ll pull off the tab of the peel and stick kind, and I’ll have the sticker trash everywhere.

So yeah.  No.

Just no.

Then they stick their letters in the mailbox and I deliver them whenever I remember.

And then I find adorable things like this:

I can’t even!

We did have a little boyfriend/girlfriend/I love you thing going on so I had to put a crack-down on that right away.

And by crack-down, I mean I said you are all JUST FRIENDS, that is all, NO MORE THAN FRIENDS, and if you write a love letter to anyone besides someone in your family (or me), I will take a picture of it and email it to everyone I know.

It worked wonders.

I’m also hoping they’ll think of me when they are older and they have a cell phone (or whatever newfangled thing hasn’t been invented yet) and they’ll think twice before texting a love letter (or a not-so-nice letter) to someone.

Well.  Anywho.

My stationery is old.

Old, old, old.

But it does the job and like I’ve stated 14,231 times, I don’t have time right now to make new stuff.

So click {HERE} if you’d like it.  When I made it, I made it in WORD.

I KNOW!

And I had to trick it by saying I was using legal sized paper so that it would print the way I wanted it to.  You don’t need legal sized paper, but it will allow you to print more to the edge of letter sized paper.

🙂

Later on, we will write to Scruffy.

And that is all I know for now.

The End.

🙂