The Jolly Christmas Postman (The Jolly Postman)

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She won the 1978 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British Library Association - an award recognizing the year's best children's book illustration by a British subject - for Each Peach Pear Plum. From classroom display materials, to fun activities for your KS1 children to complete, this activity pack contains everything you need to bring the story to life. 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.

Our wonderful The Jolly Christmas Postman activities for KS1 are a lovely set of materials that you can use to help support your teaching of the iconic Christmas story. Starting with a Christmas Card for Baby Bear that included a very funny joke from Goldilocks, whilst The Gingerbread Man received a book within a book - honestly this had everything. In this follow-up to the Ahlbergs' classic The Jolly Postman or Other People's Letters, we follow our happy postman on his Christmas rounds in a fairytale town. 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? As he rides by bicycle with “six letters in pockets”, he also pays a visit to Alice in Wonderland, Dorothy from Oz, The Giant from Jack and the beanstalk, Hansel and Gretel, the Wicked Witch, Goldilocks and Cinderella!It’ll be a story that never ends, with lovely spin-offs of the original story, as well as interactive activities galore! This book is very interactive with interesting Christmas mail and presents to take out of the envelopes and share.

You’ll find them perfect for adding some festive fun to your lessons in the build-up to the Christmas holidays, too! Janet Ahlberg (1944-1994) was a British children's book illustrator, and the co-creator, together with her husband Allan Ahlberg, of the best-selling Jolly Postman series.Wonderful story of the Jolly Postman bringing Christmas letters to beloved fairy-stories' characters, with charming and fairly unexpected presents tucked in the envelopes as well.