Flat Third Graders Out to See the USA

Our Flat People are sent out and ready to see the USA.  We are anxiously awaiting their return.  We went out to these states:  Kentucky, Virginia, Florida, California, Arizona, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Texas, Colorado, Georgia, Ohio, and Nevada.

Check this web site often to see who has come back and what they saw while they were away.

Who Are These New Third Graders?

Last week our class doubled in size. The new students are very quiet and very flat. Take a look at our photo gallery and see if you know who is who? Or stop by the room sometime to see how they just seem to hanging out.

I was told they are not staying in the third grade too long. They will be leaving or flying to different states very soon.

Check out the photos. Can you guess their names?

Stanley’s Not Flat Anymore

Gaven, Nick, Connor and Daniel summarize the last chapter:

Stanley was famous and then he was sad because the people made fun of him because he was flat.  Athur had a good idea and filled him up with air.  Arthur tried to find a bicycle pump and he did.  He put the pump in Stanley’s mouth and pumped and it worked.  Stanley got to his normal self again!

We now have finished the book, but keep watching this blog as we will be telling you about our flat people and where they each are going.

Stanley Saves the Day

Today we read chapter 4.  Here is how Seth S., Daniel, Adrienne, Connor and Seth B. summarized the main ideas of chapter 4.

The next day Mr. Dart was gloomy because a painting was stolen from the museum. The sneak thieves were Max and Luther and they were good thieves too.  Stanley had an idea by dressing like a shepherdess and climbing into a picture frame to catch the thieves.  The thieves got into a museum and tried to steal the expensive painting and Stanley yelled from the picture.  The thieves got caught by Stanley.

Flat Stanley Becomes a Kite

Abbey and Michael write their thoughts on chapter 3:

Stanley and Arthur were at the park and Arthur wanted to fly a kite. Stanley found some string and tied it to himself. Stanley became a human kite. (Abbey)
When Arthur was eating a hotdog, Stanley got tanlgled in a tree. Mrs. Lambchop told Stanley to be nicer because Arthur was jealous. (Michael)

After reading this chapter, we made kites in class. The kites gave a summary of chapter 3.

We also received large pieces of paper. Now we can make Flat People and send these Flat People to different states just like Stanley got put in an envelope and was mailed to California.

Flat Stanley’s Adventures from chapter 2 by Sophia

Notes from a third grader about chapter 2:

In chapter two Mrs.Lambchop dropped her ring in the grating and Stanley slid through the grating and got her ring. Stanley was invited to California but his parents couldn’t afford it, so they airmailed him to California in an envelope.

Flat Stanley Arrives

The third graders cheered! Why? I got the Flat Stanley books out and said today we start to read! Wow, what enthusiasm.

We read chapter one and found out how Stanley got flat. Hear how one student summarized the first chapter:

Breakfast was ready and Arthur called his mom and dad. When they came, they found Stanley was flat because an enormous bulletin board fell on him. by Mitchell

Stay tuned. What happens to Stanley?

Flat Stanley Project Starts Tomorrow

Monday, October 23 we will start reading Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown. Every day I will try to blog about our adventures with Flat Stanley. Some days I will be posting what the children are writing about because not only are we reading Flat Stanley but we will be writing, drawing and doing lots more activities that involve Stanley
Lambchop. Stay tuned!