Kathy’s Chaos: Flat Stanley
The school project that has become a family project
If you are like my co-workers and have never heard of Flat Stanley, let me bring you up to date. Flat Stanley is a book written by Jeff Brown in which the main character, Stanley, is flattened to one-inch thick when a bulletin board falls on top of him. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lambchop, discover that it is cheaper to mail Flat Stanley to visit relatives versus buying a plane ticket. Thus, Flat Stanley travels the country via the U.S. Postal Service. In my children’s school, an annual third grade project is to create your own 12-18” high laminated picture of Flat Stanley and send him along with a journal to friends and family across the country. It is a lot to ask of people – the premise is that we will learn about their communities …
