The Jolly Postman & The Jolly Christmas Postman By Allan Ahlberg and Janet Ahlberg 2 Books Collection Set

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Write your own letters, postcards and invitations to the characters in the book, or perhaps characters from other traditional tales. Share the story The book is a sequel to The Jolly Postman who delivers letters to familiar characters from fairy tales. It’s helpful if children already know this story before reading The Jolly Christmas Postman but not essential. See here for a video of the original book, The Jolly Postman, read aloud Watch the The Jolly Postman story Age 3-7 This very special book is perfect for sharing at Christmas time. The jolly postman does his rounds on a snowy Christmas Eve. The postman’s round eventually takes him to Father Christmas’ workshop and an exciting trip on his sledge with lots of special deliveries to make. This book is very interactive with interesting Christmas mail and presents to take out of the envelopes and share. Watch the first minute of this video of Allan Ahlberg talking about how he and Janet got the idea for the book from their daughter playing with the post. Where do you get ideas for stories? The Jolly Postman follows an unnamed mail carrier as he delivers letters by bicycle to characters from traditional children's stories that are well known in Britain. Following each sheet of narrative verse and illustration, there is one shaped like an envelope and containing one of the postman's deliveries. Each envelope is opened and its enclosure read at that point in the story.

There are lots of rhymes in the story; see how many you can spot together. Say them together and learn some new ones. Print off the nursery rhyme book– your child can illustrate the rhymes they know to create their very own nursery rhyme book. Do some festive baking together The postman has lots of festive treats on his round including little mince pies at The Gingerbread Man’s house. Look here for a recipe for mince pies.a b "The jolly postman, or, Other people's letters" (one catalogue record for the first U.S. edition). WorldCat. Retrieved 2012-07-19.

A special edition of this classic picture book to celebrate its 30th anniversary – with festive foil on the cover! The award-winning Jolly Christmas Postman is the ultimate children’s picture book. There should be a copy beneath every Christmas tree in every house with young children! 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… Bring in a selection of different types of mail. What are they for? Sort them into different types. Are any of them the same type of letter as the ones in the book? Sing to the tune of ‘Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush’. This jolly Christmas postman EYFS song is all about who the Jolly Postman meets on his Christmas post round.

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With this lovely collection of enhancement ideas, you’ll be able to deliver the much-loved Jolly Christmas Postman to EYFS with ease! Alternatively, The Jolly Postman is a series of three books including 1991 and 1995 sequels to The Jolly Postman, or Other people's letters. In the U.K., the first book won the Red House Children's Book Award and the Kurt Maschler Award. [3] [4] The second book won the 1991 Greenaway Medal for British children's book illustration. [5] Summary [ edit ] 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? The "Jolly Christmas Postman" is a simple picture storybook, a timeless gem that just gets it right. Beautifully illustrated with letters and parcels for the children to open and touch. It tells the tale of a postman delivering his Christmas post, along the way he encounters classic children’s story characters such as “Mr. Wolf” and “Mr. H Dumpty”. Each section is divided into adult-led focus, indoor enhancements and outdoor enhancements. With so many ideas to choose from for each topic, you can take your lessons in any direction you like.

Make a postbox together out of a large cardboard box, if possible paint it red or cover in red crepe paper. Children can make Christmas cards for characters in the story and cards, letters or invitations for the family to in their box. They can pretend to be a postman, sort the mail and make deliveries to members of the family and perhaps to toys representing characters in the story. This is even more fun if they receive replies from the family or even from characters in the story. Draw a map of the story The Jolly Christmas Postman morals teach children all about giving and sharing. This includes great selflessness as he travels far and wide, stopping at nothing to make sure that all the fairytale characters across the land receive their gifts and have a lovely Christmas. The Jolly Christmas Postman follows a postman on Christmas Eve as he delivers letters by bicycle to characters from traditional children's stories that are well known in Britain. These are characters like the Big Bad Wolf, Red Riding Hood, and the Three Bears. We have a wide range of jolly Christmas postman EYFS activities and resources to support teaching and learning. This brilliant teacher-made set of 'The Jolly Postman' resources is designed to save you time and make planning lessons easier. With this wonderful selection of tools, you will be able to create wonderfully exciting lessons for your students to enjoy.Plan a party and work out problems such as; “how many buns will we need if 4 people are coming and they want 2 buns each?” Additionally, we also have some great 'The Jolly Postman' activities and games so that you can make your lesson interactive. For example, this Jolly Postman Roleplay Activityis a great way to get your students thinking about the characters from the story. We've also made sure to include a variety of resources that you can incorporate in core lessons such as maths and English. A good example of this is this Jolly Christmas Postman-themed number counting worksheet, which you can use to add a dash of festivity to your end of term maths lessons. Alternatively, you could also incorporate our range of word searches and word mats to help your pupils practice their spelling. The above video may be from a third-party source. We accept no responsibility for any videos from third-party sources. Please let us know if the video is no longer working.

If you want to take a deeper look at ' The Jolly Christmas Postman' storybook, then we recommend that you go through each chapter of the story with this beautifully illustrated PowerPoint. This is a great resource to introduce children to the characters and themes of this brilliant festive tale. Read more books by Allan Ahlberg, titles include: The Jolly Postman * Each Peach Pear Plum Happy Families Peepo Burglar Bill *See more lovemybooks ideas Tell stories together Each piece of content has been designed by real teachers, meaning you can rest assured that they are suitable for EYFS children, whilst remaining in line with the standards and objectives of the National Curriculum. Kate Greenaway Medal". 2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State University ( CCSU). Retrieved 2012-07-19.Use this PowerPoint presentation to allow children to learn the words to the song so that you can use it during a group singing activity or during an assembly. That’s where this book comes in, that’s how this book makes me feel. Happy and joyful, it makes me think of my childhood and how special it was. I continue to this day to read this to myself every Christmas and one day I will read it to my children, hopefully one Christmas to theirs too. The Ahlbergs won two major British book awards for The Jolly Postman, the 1986 Kurt Maschler Award [4] and 1987 Red House Children's Book Award. The Dutch translation of the book De puike postbode won the Boekensleutel literary award in 1988.