A description of Primary Family written by students.  The "real" booklets would include drawings by students. 

Flat People travel!

Flat People Travels

Miss Miller's First and Second Grade

Cohoes Catholic School

We read Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown.  In this story Stanley Lambchop is flattened one night when a bulletin board falls on him.  One of the wonderful things about being flat is that Stanley is able to visit friends in California by being mailed there in a large brown envelope!

We loved the idea!  First we wrote stories about how we became flat.  Each child created a flat person that looked like himself.  The flat person was glued to the cover of a journal.  We wrote about our home and school adventures.   Then we mailed our flat people to friends and schools all over and labeled a map for the hallway.  Each Flat Person  returned to us with new adventures written in the journal and souvenirs like postcards and photos.

Click on the list below to find our where our Flat People have travelled.

The Official Flat Stanley Site- ideas for using the book and addresses of worldwide participants

Lesson Plans for Teaching with Flat Stanley

- word study lessons  http://www.gardenofpraise.com/lesson2.htm

We could also read

Mailing May, the true story of a little girl who in 1914 was "mailed", and rode the train to visit her grandmother.

Links and plans

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00000819.shtml

http://libweb.uncc.edu/cimc/integration/Units/FlatStan.htm

Jeff Brown - Teacher Resource File

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/brown.htm

This page was last updated: February 28, 2012

Visitors Since February 10, 2004

Cohoes Travels

Here's a sample of the letter we sent to our hosts.

Letter

All About Us

Primary Family at St. Joseph's-St. John's Academy

The Primary Family (Grades 2 and 3) participated in Flat Stanley projects for many years.  

photographs_for_Flat_Stanley.doc

Flat Stanley Journal St. T

Flat Stanley Journal Introduction St. T

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