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Answers to your questions: We are on Chapter 4 of the book and we really like it so far. We just finished writing our own Flat Stanley stories that we will share with you soon. We live in Yardley,PA which is a small town outside of the large city of Philadelphia. We just mailed our Flat Stanley's out to 2 other places. As soon as one set comes back, we will mail them to you. We enjoyed listening to your recordings. You read very well:) We will add some videos later on this week!

Our First Questions: Emmet: We are having Fall now and the weather is getting cooler. What season are you in? Jeremy: Where did your country get it's name? Kiera: Do you celebrate Halloween? Emily: Our school day goes from 8:30 - 3:15. How long is your school day? Megan: We are 8-9 years old. How old are you? Nathan: In America we have states. Does your country have states or divisions? Liam: What are your holidays? Nicholas: What kinds of candy do you like? Tyler: Washington DC is the capital of our country. What is your capital? Sarah: What kind of pets do you have? Alexandra: Our school is St. Ignatius of Antioch. What is the name of your school? Anna: Christopher Columbus founded our country. Today is Columbus Day and we remember him. Who founded your country? Veronica: What are some of your hobbies? Katie: We have 240 students in our school and 20 in our class. How many students are in your school and class? Helena: Our school is Catholic and we learn Religion along with Science, Math, Social Studies, Reading, English, Art, Music,Spanish, Computers, Gym and Spelling. What subjects do you learn?

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We loved listening to your questions and answers on the video! We were surprised at the number of languages you learn and at how well you speak English:)



Our Boys: Back Row: Nicholas, Emmet, Liam, Adam Front Row: Nathan, Anthony, Tyler, Jeremy



Our Girls Back Row: Brennan, Claire, Katie, Anna, Emily, Veronica, Hannah Front Row: Helena, Kiera, Megan, Sarah, Alexandra

October 20th This week we have been completing a project where students from other schools are trying to guess our location. We made this Voicethread to show them photos. I thought you might like to see it to learn more about our community. We will try to answer your questions soon. We were working on this project and our Stanley Stories this week and now we have a 4 day weekend off. Below is our Stanley stories Voicethread too.

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November 1st

Below is a video that we made yesterday to answer the questions you asked us about ourselves and the Flat Stanley book. We asked you a few questions too. Yesterday was Halloween for us. We will share photos of that soon. In the fall we enjoy sports like football and soccer. We decorate our homes with pumpkins, scarecrows, ghosts and spiders. We go pumpkin picking and we also go on hayrides. What do you like to do in the fall?

This weekend we had snow! It is very very early in the year for us to have snow. November is early for us as we usually don't get it until December, January or February. Sometimes we get snow in March too but that not common. Many people lost power during the storm and some still don't have it back yet. Trees still have leaves on them and the weight of the leaves and snow broke many tree limbs which fell on power lines, knocking them down. It has been a crazy time for us with weather because we had Hurricane Irene hit us in late August. Many people in our area had basements flood and lost power for several days. We were lucky that the power came back on in time for us to start school in early September. Do you experience any extreme weather? We are learning about weather in Science right now.

We enjoyed listening to your Stanley stories too:) We are thinking about reading another Stanley story. Would you like to read it too so we can chat about it again? We can do Stanley Flat Again, Stanley in Space or Invisible Stanley. What do you think?

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November 3rd We listened to your stories on Halloween and really enjoyed them. I like the way you read with such expression in our voice! We watched your Halloween movie yesterday. It looked like you had a lot of fun. Enjoy your week off:)

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November 19th We said goodbye to our Stanley's and mailed them out to you today. We hope they enjoy the ride in the airplane!

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January 9th - Flat Stanley has arrived! Thank you for the gifts. We love them. Here are some photos.

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January 12th - We finally finished reading //Stanley Gets Flat Again// this week. We have some feedback about your work on that book.

Book Video Trailer - It was very suspenseful and made us excited to reread the book again! TV Broadcast - The actors were very enthusiastic and creative! We liked the phone prop too! Song - We thought both boys were amazing in their singing and guitar playing! Comic Book - It is not showing up for us. We can't see anything. Poster - It is so colorful! We like the photos of Stanley and the fact that you added real writing to it. What platform did you use to create it?

We were inspired by your creativity! Over the next few weeks, we are going to read //Flat Stanley's The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery// and do some of our own creative activities for you.

March 15th - It was so nice to meet you and speak live on Skype! Thank you for staying after school to share your special things with us:) media type="custom" key="13284012"

April 6th

We have been working on some digital stories and we wanted to share them with you. We use a writing activity called "Roll the Dice." We had to roll dice and check a list to find out the following: main character, setting, problem, items the main character had with him, and other character in the story. Once we wrote the story, we used PhotoStory3 to add photos and record our voices. Check the student pages for our stories. Hope you enjoy our creations!