Email lesson plan

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

So, I have to do an email lesson (or two) with my reception group. (Yes, Bean, I do have one in mind already). The teacher really wants me to email a real person outside the school. In the past, they've emailed Postman Pat (not a possibility anymore) and the Queen (for her Jubilee, so no longer appropriate). 

 We could email the Bishop to say thankyou for his recent visit (I just had that idea), but I bet they've made cards already.

 So, do any of you have exciting people (for 5 year olds) that you can think of that we can email, or alternatively, do you have a Kindergarten/Reception class that's dying to contact a class in England?

Comments

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

postman.pat@entertainmentrights.com

But you don't get to email Postman pat, just the 'postman pat website'.

Perhaps you could ask for the parents' emails, and the children could email their own parents?

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Yes. It used to be that you got a reply from Postman Pat.

The trouble with emails home is that they have to use my or the teacher's email address, so it's best to do it as a whole class activity.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

Of course, they can't actually write yet, let alone type. Are you teaching them to send attachments?

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Actually, we're pretty much down with typing. Much easier than writing. Spelling is another matter.

Attachments come much later... not before year 3.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

touch typing?

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

No, of course not. It doesn;t need to be dast, they're only little.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

Yes, but will they ever learn touch typing? It's not the speed, it's using the fingers properly. All these people nowadays who just expect to do their jobs on computers, and they can't actually type or anything...

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Proper touch typing is not something I ever expoect to teach. Nor is it something I ever expect to learn.