an invitation to our grandparents
Monday, October 19th, 2009
At this later time of year we like to hold an open day at kinder for special people in the children’s lives. These usually tend to be their grandparents, but can be anyone they would like to invite to come. We ask the children to sign and decorate invitations which they then place into stamped addressed envelopes and pop into our kinder post box, and then we post them in the official post box.
Perhaps due to us using the telephone and internet so much, we have found that many children are not familiar with how to fold the paper to fit into the envelope.
We saw many interesting variations!
What a lot of maths was used – which is biggest, what shape are they both, how are you going to make the letter fit into the envelope, how many folds do you need to make etc …
Also great fine motor skills were needed to do all that folding, placing into the envelope and sealing.
Some struggled to actually seal the envelope, not being aware if they needed to lick it, just flip the top over or pull off the strip of paper then put it together.
Even fairly basic activities are an adventure!
