We have had the pleasure of watching our interest in mail grow from the first letter Arnav wrote when he missed his friend Owen, to a full-fledged interest that led us to visit the Shanghai Post Office Museum! Along the way children expressed interest in writing and mailing numerous letters to their friends and families. We supported this by making clear word walls of the common letter phrases and photographs with names of recipients that they were eager to write. A post office was constructed in K4A and children began to bring in bags from home to deliver the mail. They worked hard to clearly label their letters so they would be delivered properly by K4A mail carriers. Later, we moved our post office to the K4 Learning Commons and invited all friends to create and send mail through our office. 
We were fortunate to welcome Viviana’s Daddy to share his knowledge of the post office as a former Post Office Master in the USA. Our field trip to the Shanghai Post Office Museum was cumulative of our learning as each child was able to post an official item and tour the museum with their parents to learn more about post offices in Shanghai and around the world.
K4A Co-teachers – Traci RAPP & Grace ZHOU