If your first lesson is for the aim 'Personal, Social and Emotional Development', for example, you could follow the indoor enhancements suggestions and make your main activity making Christmas cards and sharing them with the class.

Remind the children about road safety. How do you keep safe when you are out on your bike or scooter? As you can see, there are plenty of ways that you can include The Jolly Christmas Postman in your teaching, no matter the subject. Children will love the festive theme and be engaged and excited to learn. The Jolly Christmas Postman is a children's storybook written by Janet and Allan Ahlberg in 1991. It is a follow-up to the original storybook 'The Jolly Postman' which was released a few years before in 1986.All of these Christmas letter box materials are teacher-made and beautifully illustrated to make your seasonal lesson planning simple and easy this term.

If you live in the UK and use the Royal Mail Postal Service you children can mail their letters to Santa to: This comprehensive collection of teaching materials has a variety of different activities for you to use in class. Each resource has been designed to help you plan interactive lessons and allow you to focus on what matters most - educating children. All of these resources are also perfectly suited for use at home, whether as festive homework tasks or as part of home school lesson plans. The Jolly Christmas Postman story, (and these resources too!), includes the perfect chance to build on children's awareness of rhyming words. Children can be encouraged to find words that rhyme within the story, by how they sound the same. This makes it great for phonics teaching, too! What is The Jolly Christmas Postman? A special edition of this classic picture book to celebrate its 30th anniversary – with festive foil on the cover!Janet Ahlberg was a commended runner up for the 1986 Greenaway Medal [7] [b] and she won the 1991 Greenaway for the sequel. [5] The annual award by the Library Association then recognised the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject.

All our teaching materials and resources are teacher-created. A Twinkl membership gives you access to trusted content to inspire great lessons and engage your learners. Ideas for The Jolly Christmas Postman Planning for Year 1 pupils: They’ll also help you to save time in creating an enjoyable and interactive learning experience for the younger learners. Off through the snow the Postman rides, with more than a meal in his insides. He’s all shook up and all of a-quiver, and it’s not just the cold that makes him shiver. There’s a letter he’d rather not deliver… Data Handling — Children can draw up a bar chart to record the different kinds of mail that the characters get. This is great for developing children's observation and data handling skills.The story follows The Jolly Postman as he delivers letters and parcels to various characters from popular children's stories. This is a great way to build cross-curricular links across your teaching. You can use these The Jolly Christmas Postman planning ideas for Year 1 to structure your lessons and produce a thorough plan for your teaching on this lovely book.