Benjamin Franklin's Grave

Flat Stanley visited Benjamin Franklin's Gravesite. It is good luck to throw a penny on it--so he did. Ben Franklin is the one who said, " A penny saved is a penny earned."

The Historic Area of Philadelphia

Flat Stanley saw some of the very interesting things in the Colonial area of the city. He went to Saint Augustine's church which was once burned in the Nativist Riots of 1844 (people were fighting about immigration then, too).

Flat Stanley also saw St. George's Methodist Church--an historic church where the Freed Black leaders Richard Allen and Absalom Jones were once asked to sit in a separate area. They left in protest and started their own church.

Flat Stanley Goes to School

Flat Stanley spent the day at the Bache-Martin School in second grade--he studied about earth worms!

Boathouse Row

Flat Stanley took a walk along Boathouse Row in Philadelphia, he stopped at the statue of Thorfinn Karlsefni Who came to America with Leif Ericson in 1003 and lived here for three years.
We also stopped at a fun statue of the Phillie Phanatic--the best mascot in ALL of pro sports.

Quaker Meeting House

The Quakers (or The Society of Friends) were a very important influence in Early America. This is a Friends Meeting House in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

Travels of Flat Stanley

Flat Stanley arrived from Omaha, Nebraska to Philadelphia Pennsylvania and immediately traveled to the Brandywine Battlefield in Delaware County, PA. An important Revolutionary War Battle was fought here.