Richards
Elementary
School
5812
N.
Santa
Monica
Blvd.
Whitefish
Bay,
Wisconsin
USA
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Have you ever read the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown? It's a story about a boy named Stanley who had a dreadful accident - a school bulletin board fell on him! Stanley becomes flatter than a pancake and finds out that in some ways it's an advantage to be flat and in other ways it's a disadvantage to be flat. Our friends in Mrs. Morton's third grade class at Murphy Ranch School in Whittier, California read Flat Stanley earlier in the school year then they created flat versions of themselves using paper, pencils, markers, and crayons to send around the world to visit many schools. Flat Alex, created by Alex at Murphy Ranch School, arrived in Whitefish Bay a few weeks ago. However, he did not arrive from the Post Office folded up in an envelope, he came as an email attachment - so we printed him, laminated him, and attached him to a dowel so he could stand. After we read Flat Stanley, we brainstormed ways that our visitor Flat Alex could have adventures right here at Richards School. Next we worked in nine groups of 2 or 3 students each to write about the problems Flat Alex would have in second grade because he is flat and how he could solve those problems. After writing first draftz, we proofread and edited our stories, then wrote final draftz which we checked over again with our teacher. We learned how to use a digital camera so we could illustrate our stories in a new and interesting way. We took digital photos of Flat Alex having the adventures and misadventures that we had written in our stories. Our teacher combined our story text and our photos into nine chapters then posted our story on our web page.
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Updated March 3, 2001 |
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