And there will be students who don’t have any addresses at all. Some students will come back with addresses from across the world, while others will have addresses of fellow community members. The letter outlines what is involved in the project. The letter asks for addresses of family and friends who live around the world and would be interested in receiving a Flat Stanley. Send a letter to parentsĪfter we finished reading the book, I send home letters with my students. We share it together as a class read-aloud and discuss Stanley’s many adventures. We start our project by reading Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. Here are the step by step plans that I used to do Flat Stanley in our classroom.Ĭheck out my YouTube video that walks through all the steps of The Flat Stanley Project! Read the book We were able to bring reading and social studies together in one fun activity. The Flat Stanley books are perfect for newly independent readers thanks to the fun illustrations, short chapters and crazy adventures.A favorite activity in my second grade classroom was creating our own Flat Stanley project. There are benefits to Stanley’s strange predicament - he can slide under doors and be posted to his friends for a holiday - but it’s not always easy being different and, once the novelty begins to wear off, Stanley wishes he could be just like everybody else again. Since the night a giant pinboard fell on top of him, he has been completely flat. Stanley Lambchop is an ordinary boy with an extraordinary problem. And in 2017, more than fifty years after the first book was published, new editions were released illustrated by award-winning author/ illustrator Rob Biddulph. Since the author’s death in 2003 several other writers, including Sara Pennypacker and Jon Mitchell, have continued Jeff Brown’s books in Flat Stanley’s Worldwide Adventures. What started out as a bedtime story for author Jeff Brown’s sons, soon became a bestseller and there are now more than twenty Flat Stanley books, published all over the world. Flat Stanley is a classic American children’s book series for readers 5+.
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