First graders visit USPS

 

February 19, 2020

HAXTUN students in Mrs. Dena Gerk's first grade class visited the Haxtun Post Office last Wednesday, Feb. 12 to mail their Flat Stanley projects. While there, Postmaster Melinda Groshans gave students a tour of the local post office and explained how the post office works while also answering the many questions of young minds.

First graders are pictured front row (l-r), Angel Grilli, Adley Kurtzer, Rylie Ham and Tayton Lover-Stone; middle row (l-r), Dylan Bazan in front of Dena Gerk, Emmett Robb, Reid Oliver, Aulbrie Hershfeldt, Karson Hofmeister, Levi Anderson, Landon Delaney and Ammon Jones; back row, Melinda Groshans.

Flat Stanley, written by Jeff Brown, is about a fictional character who is flattened when a bulletin board falls on him and he becomes half an inch thick. Throughout the story, Flat Stanley goes on different adventures and solves various problems because he is now flat. In one adventure, Stanley gets sent through the mail in a large envelope to California.

Gerk said in her class, students incorporate this into friendly letter writing and learning about the parts of a friendly letter. Every student writes a friendly letter, colors their own flat Stanley and chooses someone to send Flat Stanley to in the mail. Students include a return form so the person they wrote to can give information about their city and the adventures Stanley had while he visited. The students address their own envelopes and visit the post office to mail their Flat Stanley envelopes in person. When Stanley makes it back to Haxtun, students present their return form information to the whole class. Students also track Stanley's adventures on a map in the classroom.

 

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