They can be found decorating bulletin boards or in boxes organized by topics and states. Zurow coordinates them with her lessons. When a class is drawing flowers, trees, animals, or the Statue of Liberty, she pulls out postcards with these items on them as models. The children learn about American history by looking through the cards from the '40s and '50s, and use math to figure out the different postage prices throughout the years. The postcards are such a hit that students often want to keep them.
Students celebrating birthdays can pick one out for free.
This is something tangible they can hold in their hands and keep. I n his classroom, Georgia kindergarten teacher Andrew Baumgartner has hosted Sleeping Beauty's wedding and knighted Jack after he killed the giant at the top of the beanstalk. A 23-year teaching veteran and NEA member, Baumgartner knows the job isn't all fun. It wasn't easy, he acknowledges, to become a male kindergarten teacher. But being paternal is of equal importance.