Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Flat Stanley Visits Florida

I was thrilled to hear from my cousin who was sending Flat Stanley all the way from New Jersey to our home in Florida. Here is what Stanley did while he was here for two days.

This is Stanley arriving! The kids were so excited!


After meeting the family, Stanley met our pet bird Paco. Paco sings whenever he hears water running, so he is very chatty.


Every morning before school, our family and dog go for a bike ride and then play in the park by our house.

This is what the sky looked like in Florida while Stanley was here.


While at the park we found all kinds of neat things like moss...




Lichen.. 

it's made up of fungus and algae

and acorns. The kids learned that you can make acorn flour out of acorns. Some people actually eat this. They didn't, but had fun looking inside the acorns.




Stanley went to school with the kids, they are home schooled. This is Stanley with the kids in the schoolroom. 



This was their work for the day




Stanley joined in during school. Here he is doing a craft.

  
While the kids were busy Stanley had fun playing with math manipulatives


Stanley found out that we owned a book about him, it's a good one!



One day a week the kids go to art class. Stanley came with 



Stanley also learned a lot about Type 1 diabetes. That's what they call it when your pancreas doesn't work. It means you have to check your blood sugar and take medicine in shots.  



When school is done and so are chores we sometimes work in our garden

Stanley helped out by pulling weeds in our bed of lettuce



Stanley learned how broccoli grows


Stanley also learned about hydroponics while he was here.Hydroponics is growing without soil. 



On the night before Stanley left we made cookies. 


We were so happy to have him here with us, it was a lot of fun!   







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