St. Michael's Children Send Flat Stanleys to US and Canada

After reading Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown, 29 children from St. Michael's Primary School in Wood Green will be sending "Flats" to spend Thanksgiving in the US and Canada. The children created Flats that look like themselves from paper and are sending them along with personalized letters to new friends that live across the pond. The class has been learning about Thanksgiving and will perform a class assembly on 25 November for their parents and the rest of the school. Meanwhile back in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ontario many eager families and classrooms are awaiting their English guests. The Flats will return home to England with letters, stories, pictures, and maybe even souvenirs in early December. The connection between the countries was made by their teacher Paula Hayes of New Jersey who is teaching in North London this year as part of Fulbright Teacher Exchange Program. It is hoped that everyone involved will learn more about those who live on the other side of the Atlantic.