Real or Fake #10


Where do you send your letters to Santa to? The North Pole? Santa’s workshop? Actually, Santa has his own postal code, H0H 0H0 and it’s in Canada. Letters used to end up undelivered because there was no centralized address for Santa Claus. But for the past 30 years, Canada Post volunteers have been helping Santa reply to millions of letters from children around the world in different languages, including Braille.
Vocabulary
postal code = (known as ZIP code in the U.S.)

Braille = a system of writing for the blind

Comprehension Questions
  1. What is Santa’s postal code?
  2. For how many years have volunteers been replying to the letters?
  3. What happened to the letters before then?
Discussion Questions
  1. Do you think this is a good or bad idea? Why?
  2. Have you ever written a letter to Santa?
  3. What do you want for Christmas this year?
  4. When is the last time that you mailed someone a letter?