Cake

The pocketmails are really something for us, especially for the children. They've got more friends, they become to know each other better. Also make us closer with the children, they also send mail to their teacher.
One of my teacher-mates, Ms.E....., I think she is more excited than me in sending mail or replying mail from children. Her mail -replied is always creative and full of color, make the children badly want to read the mails, and I am always being asked by the children for telling them what the meaning is :o)

And voila............... Ms.E 's pocketmail is always full at the end of the day.

Today, I saw two girls of my students are sneaking around, in front of Ms.E's classroom. And holding something.

I ask them, "What are you doing, girls? Should both of you be in the class right now?"

Both of them answer me,"We want to give Ms.E a piece of cake." and with one little yellow M&M chocolate on the cake :D

And they continue walking slowly, maintaining her balance, while holding a small piece of cake in her both palms.......................
I mean the cake is really in her palms..........!!!

I say." Eh...wait???!! where do you get that from?"

"It's from my lunch, Mr.Danny. I bring 2 pieces of cakes, one for Ms.E"

Ah............I get it, I thought they are holding their unfinished lunch.

So I say," Girls, if you want to give something to somebody, you should put the cake on something first, for example put it on the tissue. So it will be looked nice, better and hygiene." I dont want to let them get dissapointed by rejecting the only one cake in their hands, their little present that's from the heart. Although the cake is already not in a good shape.

Then I give them the tissues, and they put the cake on it. Ms. E is very happy to accept the cake, the girls are also happy. I am also a happy guy who keep the little secret :)

I've got mail : to the next level

I stare the pocketmail, well a lot of mails inside. And I found this one, when one of my students show me the letter. Haha......... now they are sharing their home phone numbers. By the way, the other day we taught them the song about phone number using the "Skip to my lou" rythm (from Teach Preschool-Deborah).
"3324567...........3x"
"Dont you forget to call me up"
They are really happy now because they remember their own phone number, thanks Deborah. It's really nice that the children have the spirit just like that. By sharing their own phone number, it means that their friendship is going to the next level.

I've got mail : the power of giving

Ar first, we designed the pocketmail is for sending mail only (as far as we thought). But the children are having so much creative, sometimes far away from our ideas. Beyond unthink-able things. They are now even sending a gift box or presents via pocketmail !!! That's cool.
We grow their sense of sharing between their friends. They've learned that if we care to our friends, their friends also care to them. By this mail-sending activity, they will understand the power of giving.  

Giving it first then you will be receive it too.

I've got mail : Cinderella teacher

These mail sending activities are really motivating the children to write, to draw and to color. The most important is that they want to know how to write their friend's name. I can see on their face, when they were writing mail-letters, what a full enthusiasm face. One student can write 3 to 4 letters a day. Haven't counted those'd been written at home. How cool it is. I also saw that one girl has a small cute notebook with colorful pages in her bag, ready to be ripped off one by one page when the girl want to write a letter. Last week I found that they only wrote letters to their class mates, this week they were writing letters across to other classes. Even in different levels. Surely also across the gender :). That's pretty amazing.

My teacher-mate, teaches PG class, told me that she got many mails from other class students. And the letter it's quite interesting, it writes ,"Miss D........, you are so beautiful, just looked like Cinderella" or "Miss D......, you're looked like a ferinses" (it means Princess). it's a  sweet letter, makes everybody happy :).

Deep in their mind, it's so simple, the "beautiful" word is belong to Cinderella or princess, and the "handsome" word is belong to the prince. And it's very true, indeed.

Since we have mail-pockets, our class' life is much more fun and surprising :)

I've got mail part 3 : Likes you

T'day ,in the morning as usual I open the classroom and see nothing special since yesterday that I left. And also looking at the empty postmail pocket. One by one students go inside the classroom. Putting down their bag on the chair and go to play in the playground while waiting the bell rings. Then I go to the playground for checking up the toy safety. After 15 min, the bell rings, all of us go into the classroom. I see the postmail pocket is already full with mails. Wow what a surprise. They have enthusiasm about the mail sending things. They already wrote the letter at home. It's very sweet to know that they spent time @ home to write letters for their friends. There's one boy in my K-B class , got a lot of letters in his mail-pocket. And when I asked him, he said he got those from a girl on his class. And when we read them , the letters got the same contains. There are about 4 letters. "Dear A......... , you are so handsome , you looked like a prince from a fairy tale. I like you. Love G.....
Huh.... ???!!! Well well ,Some of them can show their feelings ,and others can't show their feelings so open :) I think their writing skill is improving a lot.
Hope will find other new interesting letters soon.
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I've got mail part 2

Everything first time is always hard, today we begin to use the postmail pockets. Writing a mail is new for the children. Some can write their name but cannot write their friend's name, some can write their friend's name but forgot how to write theirs :). But something at the first time to tell them the rule of writing a mail:

1. write their name on the paper

2. write friend's name

3. write or draw and coloring

4. fold the letter and put into friend's mailpocket

Now they know the rule, they can freely write mail without any wrong address :)

I've got mail, an idea from Mrs.Deborah J.Stewart

Finally.............we made it, with the help of other teachers which I designed it first. Now after a month, we made it, the postmail pockets for children that children can send letters each other by putting letters in their freinds' mailpockets :). Can't wait to start using it :). Thanks again Mrs.D.