Thomas Jefferson Day School - Mrs. Conklin's Third Grade Class

Mrs. Conklin's third grade class is excited to share Flat Stanley with you. We hope you enjoy him and show him a good time. The name of our school is Thomas Jefferson Independent Day School. We are a private school of about 250. We only have one grade of each, Pre-K through 12th grade. We have 20 students in our class, 9 girls and 11 boys. We are very busy learning lots of things. In math we are beginning to learn our multiplication facts. We are also making board games about the book Caleb's Story. Stanley is coming to you from Joplin, Missouri. Joplin is a city of about 47, 000. We are located in the southwest corner of Missouri. One of Joplin's newest additions is a city trolley. We are hopeful to give at least one of our Stanley visitors a ride on this. We do not have any large bodies of water in Joplin, but we have a couple of lakes about an hour away. We are not too far away from Branson and the famous Silver Dollar City.

Now, we must tell you about Stanley. He was born at Freeman Hospital. He is of course in the third grade. His favorite subject is Science. Right now he is learning about pollination and bugs. He loves spaghetti. He is also very good at sports. He wants to be a goalie for our high school soccer team, but they think he is just a little bit Flat! They did agree to let him be a Little Cavalier Critter and help cheer for the team. Some of his third grade friends are Critters with him. Stanley thinks he is allergic to medicine, but we think maybe he just doesn't really like it. Since Stanley spends a lot of time in the third grade room with many bears, he has become quite fond of them, but he also has this idea in his head that he'd like to start a shell collection. He is hopeful that he might get some along his journey. So we decided he has two things to collect, shells and bears. Stanley also loves to read too, so read him many books and send him home soon.