Flat Stanley Project

Dear Parents,
 The Flat Stanley Project is going to be presented during the week of January 14. Please be prepared to present on the 14th. We will just take the students in turn. Thank you.

Here is a copy of the original handout. Please do not stress over this. I just wanted the student to share a personal experience about a different culture/place. Also, students are to share a culture which they are less familiar with. I am currently out of town and have limited service, but I will do my best to answer any questions via email. I have zero phone service. I hope this helps!

Flat Stanley Project

First Assignment:

The purpose of this project is to connect our lives with other lives around the globe. This can be anywhere from another State, city or country! Your job is to choose someone from another place, different from your own, who will be willing to take your Flat Stanley on a picture tour of their location. The goal is for Flat Stanley to be introduced to these new locations and share them with you. This will be done through the receiver taking pictures of Stanley with important monuments/places from their location. Then, the receiver will tell what each place is and why it is significant. The sender (student) will write a letter to the person they want to learn more from. In the letter they will write why they chose the person, what you hope to learn, and a little about yourself. You will mail your Stanley to the sender or send a digital copy via email. The person will take pictures with Stanley, and reply with a letter describing their location and information. These pictures and newly gained information will be shared with the class once it is completed. This place needs to be a unique place that has never been visited/or rarely visited. 

You may choose your location. Our class will record on a map where each of their Flat Stanley's have been sent to.

Second Assignment: 

Over Christmas break, you will take your Flat Stanley to a place you are visiting/spending time/a place of significance, and take pictures with him. Then, you will present the pictures to the class when we return. These places will be recorded on map as well to show the different adventures. Examples of places to take him could be:

1. A Farm

2. A city

3. A play

4. The mountains 

5. The beach

6. The Zoo

We will be making Flat Stanley in class. 

If you would like to look up more information, go to this website: 

http://www.flatstanley.com

Newsletter Week 18 12/17-12/18

This is a short week. School will be a full day on Monday and a half day with dismissal at 12:00 p.m.

Monday:
    We will have a Grinch Party/Song Performance for our class Christmas Carol-off. This is what everyone needs to wear:

•        Singers: summer/pool/swimming attire (please bring warmer, free dress clothes to change into afterwards) 
•         Snowflake dancers: all white with toboggans or earmuffs 
•         Sun dancers: all black with sunglasses 
•         Weatherman: Suite 

Tuesday: 

        School is dismisses at 12:00 noon. This day is free dress/P.J. Christmas attire. PTA is having a school Christmas party from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 

School resumes Monday, 1/7/12.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!!!!!

 

   
 

Week 12/10-12/14

Reminders:

•          Lunch forms are due Wednesday morning at the beginning of school.
•          School Christmas Performance is Thursday night. Please be at the school 6:00 p.m. The performance will begin promptly at 6:30 p.m. Please remember to have your child dressed the way mentioned in the BDS Newsletter 

-Math: We will have a math over multiplication on Wednesday, 12/12. Please continue working on your math facts and multiplication facts for 0,1,2,5,9,10. 

- Reading: We will be focusing on different Christmas stories and completing activities with the children. Also, we will be listening to "The Best Christmas  Pageant Ever" being read and take a comprehensive quiz over this story. In addition, we will do paired reading partners with the kindergarteners. 

- Language Arts: We will be focusing on contractions 

- Science: Stages of Matter. We will have a class party Friday afternoon, so please try to attend if you can! 

Spelling: 

 Please study the following dolch words. There will be a test over these on Thursday. I will randomly pick 30 words from this list for students to spell correctly. Any words are possible choices, so please stud. Every child in our class should be able to correctly spell these words.

always 
around 
because 
been 
before 
best
both
buy 
call 
cold 
does 
don't
fast 
first 
five 
found

gave 
goes 
green 
its 
made 
many 
off 
or 
pull 
read 
right 
sing 
sit 
sleep 
tell 
their

these 
those 
upon 
us 
use 
very 
wash 
which 
why 
wish 
work 
would 
write 
your