Card Making…Writing…and Mailing Cards

The Cards…

Making cards is a fun activity and we had a ball making these cool cards from Styrofoam prints.  Linoleum is fantastic, but it takes a lot more time, tools, and skill to pull off a great design.  Styrofoam, on the other hand, is quick, easy and allows kids to create great designs quickly. 

The Writing…

They could send their card to ANYONE in the WORLD.  In their  Writer’s Notebooks, they wrote their draft letter.  Once they finished their letter, they re-read what they had written and fixed punctuation, spelling errors, sentences that didn’t make sense, etc.  They then enlisted the help of an EDITOR (anyone in our class...except for me!) and working with their editor, they made further changes to their work. 

Mailing…

We learned how to address an envelope and some kids even decorated them…turning their letters into a work of art.  J  YahoOooo!  Letters were placed into the mail on Monday.  Yay! 

Letter writing is a lost art.  Writing letters is an AWESOME way to get kids writing.  Email works too, but there’s nothing better than getting an actual LETTER in the mail.  And, usually, when you write something, you get something back!  Your kids wrote to a variety of different people.  So cool.  President Obama, grandparents, friends, parents, US Fish and Wildlife…and so much more!  You should be very proud of all of their hard work.

Postrcossing.com is an awesome way for kids to write and you will absolutely get things back!