Need a Flat Stanley from Overseas ASAP

[ksumn1]

My 10 year old DD informed me an hour ago that the addresses for her gifted programs Flat Stanley project are due tomorrow!!!! They were supposed to be due next week, but the teacher moved it up a week. My DD has been sick for the last 2 days and she didn't find out herself until 8:00 pm. For some reason, she forgot to tell me for a couple of hours.

Anyway, if you live overseas, we would really appreciate it if you could be a recipient of Flat Stanley and be willing to take a picture of yourself and Stanley and send it back. I will, of course send a SASE to return him in. The only friend we have overseas moved and we don't have her forwarding address, or we wouldn't be in such a pickle. On overseas address is a big bonus on her project.

Thanks in advance!!! Just PM your address and post on the thread that you're sending it. Thanks again.

 

[ilovedisney1]

wish I could help but I don't live overseas

 

[java]

Post on the UK board! you might get a quicker response for overseas.

 

[ksumn1]

OMG!! Java, you are so right. I just totally forgot about the UK boards. I'll try that. We've done well on the US (TX, SC, AL, AZ, CA, IA and KS) but the bonus is the kicker!!!

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

pm sent

 

[Macca1111]

From Chile! There's a feather in her cap, I can't imagine anyone else's Stanley will go there!

 

[hjd0411]

Another PM sent...!!!

Hope I'm in time!

 

[Katy Belle]

Greetings from the desert! Another PM sent.



PS... the website that I gave you in the PM. Click on "our photo album" in the menu on the left. Then it will lead you to the Stanley photos.

 

[Danauk]

I'm in the UK I can help if you want to.

 

[emiliezola]

I don't have enough posts to be able to PM you, but if you'll contact me we will gladly take pics of Stanley in Paris and then mail them back to you.

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

No offence to anyone, and not to take over the thread, but how stupid of a project is Flat Stanley?! I mean, what is the kid learning here - that his/her mom is going on the Disboards to find strangers to pose with a stupid cut out???? If a teacher wants their students to learn about another country / state - how about teaching them about it!!!! Maybe I'm missing something, I don't know, just seems like a real time waister to me. JMHO


PS - No offence to the OP what so ever - you are just trying your best to help your child with their school project!

 

[mlynn]

No offence to anyone, and not to take over the thread, but how stupid of a project is Flat Stanley?! I mean, what is the kid learning here - that his/her mom is going on the Disboards to find strangers to pose with a stupid cut out???? If a teacher wants their students to learn about another country / state - how about teaching them about it!!!! Maybe I'm missing something, I don't know, just seems like a real time waister to me. JMHO


PS - No offence to the OP what so ever - you are just trying your best to help your child with their school project!

My dd 7 did this as summer project. (she has her teacher for 1 and 2nd grade.) The teacher is using them as a way to show the children in her class about different places and how to read the map. I really loved doing this project as well as my friends who helped me out. one of my friends lives in Alaska nad her husband flies for Fedex and he took her stanley to S. Korea and China. My other friends took him other places. I really think it was a fun project we are putting everything together this weekend for her to take in next week.

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

My dd 7 did this as summer project. (she has her teacher for 1 and 2nd grade.) The teacher is using them as a way to show the children in her class about different places and how to read the map. I really loved doing this project as well as my friends who helped me out. one of my friends lives in Alaska nad her husband flies for Fedex and he took her stanley to S. Korea and China. My other friends took him other places. I really think it was a fun project we are putting everything together this weekend for her to take in next week.

See thats what I mean - YOU had a lot of fun doing it. Its not as if little Susie is going to call up some relative she has never met in a country or state 1000 miles away to have them do this for her - its going to be mommy/daddy doing it. Plus - thats all it is - someone taking a picture. If they then have to write a little something about the state/country the picture is taken in, then thats better, but still.... it just seems to me to be one of those projects that mom and dad should be getting the grade for rather than the student.

 

[lovemygoofy]

See thats what I mean - YOU had a lot of fun doing it. Its not as if little Susie is going to call up some relative she has never met in a country or state 1000 miles away to have them do this for her - its going to be mommy/daddy doing it. Plus - thats all it is - someone taking a picture. If they then have to write a little something about the state/country the picture is taken in, then thats better, but still.... it just seems to me to be one of those projects that mom and dad should be getting the grade for rather than the student.

I've participated in many of these projects. I'm pretty sure it doesn't happen like you invision. When I take the picture of whatever it is or do the postcard project, I include a little information booklet about the state and some little magnent or spoon from that state. Every parent I've talked to says that the state or country is then learned about in the classroom. It brings it more to life so to speak.

I find it cute and interactive because children are more clued in thinking that they "know" someone in that state or country and learning about that person's particular area.

 

[Duchie]

My two younger kids both did Flat Stanley projects and they loved it. In both cases, all of the work was done at school. The kids came home and told me who they wanted Stanley to go visit and asked me for the address. In our case, their cousin happened to be living in Scotland so they asked to send it to him. Since it was going overseas, I told the teacher I'd mail it since the postage would be more. The kids poured over everything when it came back and asked me to show them places on the map. Then they were very excited to show it to their classmates at school. So for my kids it was a great experience that was all theirs.

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

My two younger kids both did Flat Stanley projects and they loved it. In both cases, all of the work was done at school. The kids came home and told me who they wanted Stanley to go visit and asked me for the address. In our case, their cousin happened to be living in Scotland so they asked to send it to him. Since it was going overseas, I told the teacher I'd mail it since the postage would be more. The kids poured over everything when it came back and asked me to show them places on the map. Then they were very excited to show it to their classmates at school. So for my kids it was a great experience that was all theirs.

See thats great - it was all done in the classroom (other than you sending it to Scottland) and the teacher took charge of the whole thing.

 

[mlynn]

See thats what I mean - YOU had a lot of fun doing it. Its not as if little Susie is going to call up some relative she has never met in a country or state 1000 miles away to have them do this for her - its going to be mommy/daddy doing it. Plus - thats all it is - someone taking a picture. If they then have to write a little something about the state/country the picture is taken in, then thats better, but still.... it just seems to me to be one of those projects that mom and dad should be getting the grade for rather than the student.

No my daughter knows all we sent to (except for a one husband.) But she is putting the book together (I will help) but the people did fill out a paper saying history about where they were and Temp in the area and how many miles from home. My daughter LOVED see all the pictures and reading what every body wrote.It is a fun project.Now she knows where places like the space needle is in Korea and That Ohio was the 1st state with paid Fire fighters.IT was a fun project.Her teacher has a big map up and they are going to map the whole classes journey this summer.

 

[doxdogy]

I think it is a great way to teach kids geography! I learned it the "old fashioned" way and it was pretty boring. Besides, you don't know how the teacher is going to incorporate Flat Stanley into the lesson plan. Studies have proven that kids learn better then "traditional" teaching methods.

No offence to anyone, and not to take over the thread, but how stupid of a project is Flat Stanley?! I mean, what is the kid learning here - that his/her mom is going on the Disboards to find strangers to pose with a stupid cut out???? If a teacher wants their students to learn about another country / state - how about teaching them about it!!!! Maybe I'm missing something, I don't know, just seems like a real time waister to me. JMHO


PS - No offence to the OP what so ever - you are just trying your best to help your child with their school project!

 

[mickeyfan1]

No offence to anyone, and not to take over the thread, but how stupid of a project is Flat Stanley?! I mean, what is the kid learning here - that his/her mom is going on the Disboards to find strangers to pose with a stupid cut out???? If a teacher wants their students to learn about another country / state - how about teaching them about it!!!! Maybe I'm missing something, I don't know, just seems like a real time waister to me. JMHO


PS - No offence to the OP what so ever - you are just trying your best to help your child with their school project!

Wow, a time waster? I was a Flat Stanley recipient. My nephew got the addresses from my sister and the school sent them out, Flat came to work with me and got into some trouble (tried to get into the pop corn machine), he got a baseball pennant for a Christmas gift, he went sight seeing. I had a lot of fun with hi for the 2 weeks he was visiting. He gathered up tourist brochures, and got to take it all back to his classroom. He came from VA to AZ, no other Flat from his class came out here. The teacher put his stuff on the bulletin board, just like she did with the rest of them. What is the harm in asking DISers if they would take Flat and entertain him in their own country? When he is returned, the class will have something new to learn and talk about, much more enticing than just a book and a map. Flat makes stuff a lot more real. It is a teaching tool, that's why teachers use it. Yeah, I think you are missing something.

 

[RF536]

DS's Flat Stanley project was the same way as Duchie's, I provided the address and DS did the rest at school. I do admit I provided him some guidence as to who to send it to, but he had the final say. He sent it to a close family friend who just retired from the navy and is in Virginia Beach, VA. I think is a great way for the kids to learn about different places that they might not get to visit and to put a little more personal touch to it.