Do you know what the back of the post office looks like? Well I do! This week was my turn to teach and one of the subjects was 'service'. I racked my brain for ideas on how to teach the kids about that so on Tuesday we made little 'Service Coupons' for the kids to take home. They came up with thier own ideas on things they could do to help around their house. Some ideas were to help with laundry, empty the dishwasher, be nice to brothers and sisters, and my favorite-help make sandwiches.
I couldn't come up with much for our second day of preschool to reinforce the things we'd talked about, so I figured what better way to teach the kids about service than to show them some occupations of people who serve our community?
First we went to the post office where the kids got to pretend to be letters. The mail arrives and is unloaded from the back of the mailtruck by using an elevator lift-probably the kids' favorite part of the whole day was getting a ride on this!
They also got to meet a real mailman-our family actually went to church with Bob before we moved here 3 years ago...
The "letters" were taken from the elevator lifs on these big carts before they are sorted so they end up at their destinations. Every address in the city has their own little slot where the mail is sorted-there were over 6,000 slots in our local post office!
Then the mail is loaded back into the mail carrier's vehicles before they are delivered to our mailboxes!
Here is Postmaster Kevin explaining how the postal system works and that every letter needs a stamp, an address, and a postmark before it can be delivered.
This is a machine that is a smaller version of the ones used today. It counts the letters while cancelling out the stamp that was used. The kids tried and tried to count as fast as the machine, but they proved how machines deffinitley make our lives easier!
We also learned that mail carriers can be asked to carry up to 70 pounds in their bag-just like the one Kade is wearing in the first picture. Our mailman delivers all the mail here in town and the postmaster said he walks about 10 miles every day bringing us our letters. We are grateful for our mailman-especially out there in this cold weather!
Next we walked over to the Emergency Medical Services building to learn a little about what EMT's do and to see the ambulances.
The kids got to go inside while Miss Joanna showed them where everything is kept that helps the EMT's save people's lives.
One of the moms was such a good sport to volunteer to get strapped down and show the kids how a neck brace works-it was so cute when her little girl leaned over and kissed her mommy's forehead!
Each of the kids got a chance to sit in the drivers seat and Miss Joanna demonstrated the lights and the loud sirens for us.
Hopefully we never need an EMT, but we sure are thankful that they are there, serving our community!
3 comments:
Oh looks like so much fun! I bet kevin did a good job with the kids at the post office!
The post office field trip was genius having the kids be letters! Both of them looked like fun trips!!! Nice job!
I love all the pictures and details! Thanks for posting those and thanks for the fun field trips! very informative!
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