Teachers also discuss whether children will use real addresses, or create addresses for themselves using towns in their state. A group of students chooses which student art work will be used for stamps, and the teacher reduces them with the copier. The design of stamps can become an ongoing third-grade activity during this project. Each teacher then makes class address maps, to exchange with the partner class. Review of postal processes and how to address postcards is followed by writing the first cards.
Mail is sent in the afternoon.
Once underway, most postal jobs are done about once a day. The children meet and talk with their pen-pals. Nominate an educator for Feature Teachers.