Kate Greenaway Medal". 2007(?). Curriculum Lab. Elihu Burritt Library. Central Connecticut State University ( CCSU). Retrieved 2012-07-19. 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:

We have a wide range of jolly Christmas postman EYFS activities and resources to support teaching and learning. Your learning objectives for this lesson could be about reading names and practising pencil control. 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 or Other People's Letters is an interactive children's picture book by Janet and Allan Ahlberg. The innovative project required five years to complete, and much discussion with both the publisher Heinemann and the printer before it was issued in 1986. The first subject heading assigned by WorldCat is "Toy and movable books". Little, Brown published a U.S. edition in the same year. 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…

If you live in the UK and use the Royal Mail Postal Service you children can mail their letters to Santa to: We also have resources to help your students develop their writing and literacy skills such as this easy to print Word Mat. What is The Jolly 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”.It’s Christmas Eve and the Jolly Postman is delivering greetings to various fairy-tale characters – there’s a card for Baby Bear, a game appropriately called ‘Beware’ for Red Riding Hood from Mr Wolf, a get-well jigsaw for hospitalised Humpty Dumpty and three more surprise gifts. Venn Diagrams — Children can use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast two of the fairytale characters in the story. What are their similarities and differences?