Flat
Stanley Unit – Mailing Letters and Packages
(linked to Unit explanation)
The
children will listen to and discuss three (3) different stories about different
kinds of mailings.
These stories will cover fiction and non-fiction books.
The children loved reading the amusing stories about Flat Stanley, by
Jeff Brown. The stories have excited
them to the point that they wanted to create their own stories. After reading the original Flat Stanley
story, the class created their own “Flat Stanley” (naming it after
themselves-of course.) When they
finished creating, they had to write all about themselves as “Flat Stanley”
telling what happened to them that made them flat and how the got back to
normal again. They also had to include
an adventure that they had while being flat.
Their “Flat Stanley” creations were scanned into the computer and they
had to type the information onto the slide about themselves.
An outline was created using the program Inspiration
on how the Flat Stanley Unit was developed. To view a copy of the diagram,
saved as a Microsoft Word document, please click
here.
A PowerPoint presentation was also created by
scanning the children’s “Flat Stanley” figures and then having them type in their
names and how they became flat. To view the PowerPoint presentation click
here. If you use a dial-up service, the download time may be long.
After completing this unit, I have been fortunate enough to be offered to have
the Inspiration diagram printed by the creators of the Inspiration software in
their product catalog in the Fall, 2004. It will also be posted at the web
site of The Flat Stanley Project,
created by Dale
Hubert, M.Ed. This is very exciting for me. To view a copy of this diagram,
saved as a Microsoft Word document, please click
here.
Meet our mascot, Penny the Penguin. 
As
a fun way of introducing the class mascot, Penny the Penguin, I created a
PowerPoint presentation for the class. To view the PowerPoint presentation
click here. Download time using
dial-up services may take longer.