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Children will evaluate what it’s like to work at a post office in Antarctica.

Vocabulary: Antarctica, tourists, postcards, colony

Science Focus: polar regions

Social Studies Focus: jobs

Simple, spectacular ideas to boost your lessons.

• Introduce children to Antarctica’s climate, landscape, and animals with this photographic nonfiction book.

• As a class, write a journal entry about a day working in the penguin post office! Invite kids to include details such as what clothes they would put on for work, what they would do on the job, and what they would see outside.
• Invite children to come up and write any words they may know.

• Discuss the pros and cons of working at the penguin post office, using the issue as a guide. Then take the online vote! You can also check out the poll results of all our readers.

Skill: writing and drawing

Materials: Send a Postcard! skill sheet, pencils, markers, crayons, scissors, glue

• Invite kids to pretend they went to Antarctica and have them send a postcard! To make the postcards, cut the sheet on the dotted line and fold together on the solid line. Glue the insides together so you have a card that can be flipped over.
• On the front, invite kids to draw a scene of Antarctica. It can be of animals, the post office, or themselves in the icy landscape.
• On the other side, have kids fill in the blanks to complete the card. On the first line, they can write words such as fun, freezing, great, and icy. Possible words for the second line might be snow, penguins, and ice. On the third line they might write words such as cold, happy, or even nervous!
• Let children give their postcards to the recipient they choose!