Flat Stanley Project
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In
the book, Flat Stanley, by Jeff Brown, Stanley is
squashed flat by a falling bulletin board. One of the many
advantages is that Flat Stanley can now visit his friends by
traveling in an envelope.
The
Flat Stanley Project is a group of teachers who want to provide
students with another reason to write. Students' written work goes
to other places by conventional mail and e-mail.
Students make paper Flat Stanleys and begin a journal with him. Then
Flat Stanley and the journal are sent to another school where
students there treat Flat Stanley as a guest and complete the
journal. Flat Stanley and the journal are then returned to the
original sender. Students can plot his travels on maps and
share the contents of the journal. |
Monster Exchange
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Classrooms
worldwide are paired together, and students from one classroom draw
and write a description of a monster, which they exchange with their
partnered classroom. The second group of students must then draw a
monster that resembles the original monster, relying only on the
written descriptions. Once this process is complete, all the
monsters are uploaded to the Monster Gallery to compare and view.
Great extension activity
for
There's a Nightmare in My Closet.
Students write and
illustrate a nightmare. |
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Ladybug Ladybug, What Do You See?
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Based on the book Brown
Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? Classes will collaborate to create
a book about the things they see during spring. Each class will be
responsible for 2 pages of the story.
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Literature Circles Extension Projects
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Classes that are involved in
literature circles are invited to join. Students will create
extension projects individually or in groups. Work samples
will be sent electronically for publication on this web
site.
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Fairy Tale and
Folk Tale CyberDictionary |
This project is part of
a fairy tale or folk tale unit. After reading a fairy/folk tale of
your choice brainstorm with students to find a "thing", "happening",
or "word" for each letter of the alphabet. Each student is assigned
a letter of the alphabet. He/she writes a sentence and creates an
illustration in Kid Pix. All drawings and sentences are emailed to
the CyberDictionary project coordinator to be posted on the project
webpage |
Chocolate Stories
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Classes will read a "chocolate"
book as a springboard for a response activity of their
choice. After reading the story students will engage in
language arts, math, science or social studies activities
that will be showcased on a web site. |
Fall is Here! We Love it! |
Write a class poem or
descriptive paragraph about autumn, ending the writing with the
line:
"Fall is here! We love it! All poems will be posted on the project
website |
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My Town is Important
 
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Using the format from
Margaret Wise Brown's, The Important Book, participant classes will
share a class poem, information, and images that describe special
features of their town. |