Flat Addisyn

Addisyn's flat self made it back home!

Addisyn’s class read the book Flat Stanley, where the boy gets flattened like a pancake when a bookcase falls on him.  Being so light and thin, he was a light traveler.  Each child in 1st grade drew a
picture of themselves, cut it out, sent their “flat self” on an adventure, and reported back to their class afterwards. 

This took some planning, as they read the book in early April, sent their flat selves out before Spring Break, then got their flat self home by the end of the month, so they could do presentations throughout May and display their boards at the school open house.

Addisyn sent her flat self to Aunt Marcy in Virginia.  Aunt Marcy did a GREAT job, taking flat Addisyn to many interesting places.  Addisyn just wanted to make sure she saw Ms. Coco and went ice skating.  She did, and when Flat Addisyn came home in the mail with all the pictures of her adventure, I helped Addisyn learn about aircraft carriers, tunnels, sunrise on the east coast, and the original thirteen colonies. 

I helped her mount pictures and captions on a presentation board and she practiced telling about it to her dad, Marissa, and her grandmas, before her official presentation at school.  Addisyn invited me and Grammy to watch her present at school, and we were so impressed with how comfortable she was standing and speaking in front of her class!  Mrs. Lindgren had them trained with a formal greeting, and Addisyn remembered 90% of what she was supposed to talk about (which is impressive considering she had to wait so long before it was her turn to present, and she had a LOT to remember to talk about).