Nursery World - Enabling Environments: Christmas

Why not use the Christmas countdown as a chance to focus on
writing? Marianne Sargent offers pointers.

The countdown to Christmas provides lots of opportunities for children to write and send special messages to friends and families, as well as finding out about the postal service (see left).

A nursery post office

Set up a role-play post office and fill it with Christmas post.

- Use a table for a post office counter. Provide a telephone, weighing scales, ruler, notepad and pen as well as a till (or make a cash drawer using a cutlery drawer tray) filled with plenty of coins.

- Provide airmail stickers, self-inking stamps and blank sticky labels.

- Print off sheets of postage stamps. If possible, print them onto sticky labels and cut them up so children can peel and stick them.

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