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  • Valentine mailbox printable

    Printable Valentine Mini Mailboxes

    It’s officially February! It feels like getting through January is really something to celebrate, so let’s get down to business and dive into Valentine’s Day. This is an easy little activity that uses one of my FREE printables and is absolutely perfect for leaving each other little messages. My favorite Valentine’s dramatic play center is a post office, heavy on the hearts and pink and red colored decor. Decorating and adding these little mailboxes makes it fun for children to deliver mail for each other. I used my phone number and address freebie for the printable mailbox template. This template is editable, so you can also add children’s real addresses…

  • Why you need an address

    Most kids learn their address by repeating it over and over and over without really understanding what it means or why they have to learn it.  I really wanted to make this concept a little more meaningful for my kiddos. Earlier this year we did a great activity – you’ve probably seen it on Pinterest – Students use different sized circles to represent the planet, continent, country, state, city, and street that they live on.  This was our introduction to our addresses, but we hadn’t really revisited the concept. This time around we drew pictures and wrote simple letters to our families, then we put them in envelopes, and talked…