Flat Stanley Makes Learning About New Places So Much More Fun!

This year, I read Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown to my second graders at the beginning of school.  Stanley is a boy who is flattened by a falling bulletin board, but finds that he can travel to exotic places in a mailing envelope.  My husband travels for business, so I made him a briefcase sized Stanley to take with him.  He took photos in San Antonio, Washington D.C., Phoenix, and Oklahoma City.  Stanley went to Texas A&M for parents weekend, too.  When I went to New York City, I took Stanley on a tour of the Metropolitan Museum.  Now all the kids are checking out books not only about Stanley, but about Egyptian mummies and pyramids and other things that Stanley saw at the museum.  They literally think of him as a member of our class and many students sent him Valentines.