Families offer to send in envelopes and stamps to help get our project off the ground.

In the letter, I also ask for donations to the project. This way, each student will hopefully receive a Flat Stanley back. I’ll even reach out to staff members who might know someone who lives out of state. In this case, I ask my own family members and friends if they are willing to participate. 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. A favorite activity in my second grade classroom was creating our own Flat Stanley project.

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