Our Adventures with Flat Stanley!

This week we read a fun novel titled Flat Stanley, written by Jeff Brown.  One of the amazing things Stanley is able to do once he is flat is visit friends by traveling through the mail.  Well, we took this idea and wanted to try it out for ourselves!  Each child has created a flat version of them self, written a letter to a friend or family member that lives somewhere in the USA, and we mailed out our flat kiddos on Friday.  This is such a fun way to learn about several different states in the U.S.  I am so excited to hear about the upcoming adventures!  Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Young for walking with us down to the mailbox on a wild and drizzly afternoon. You are amazing!

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Flat Stanley Unit Has Begun!

Woohoo!  We have officially started our Flat Stanly unit!  So far we have read the book and done several reading, writing, and vocabulary activities to deepen our understandings.

Then the students got busy creating their "flatselves" and wrote a letter to me telling how they got flat.  Such silliness and creativity!

Next each student wrote a letter to a friend, family member, or the president of the United States asking them to host their flat person for a week.  Accompanying the letter is instructions and a travel book.  We are going to learn so much about our beautiful country throughout this unit.

We walked on down to the mailbox and carefully placed each letter in the mail.  I am anticipating several good mail days in the coming weeks! Our trip to the mailbox Flipagram!