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| Tangram Stan lives in Dartmouth Nova Scotia.
The idea of Tangram Stan originated with the story of Flat Stanley. Flat
Stanley is one of a series of books written by Jeff
Brown. In this story, Stanley Lambchop is flattened by a bulletin
board which falls from the wall and lands on him while he is sleeping.
The adventure continues as Stanley carries on his days as a flattened
version of himself and finally, having grown tired of being flat, he
looks for a way to get back to normal.
Our Flat Stanley is called Tangram Stan. He is a Maritime boy and loves the sea. He is also very partial to Tangrams. Whenever Stanley Travels, he takes his Tangrams with him in his little suitcase. Stanley travels to other classrooms around the world and shows the students there what he can do with his tangrams. He takes them a set of tangrams too and invites them to make tangrams with him and send some home with him to show his friends in Nova Scotia. |
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This is Stanley's Front |
This is Stanley's Back
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This is Stanley's Little Suitcase |
This is Stanley's Little Set of Tangrams That He Takes With Him Everywhere
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This is The Bluenose Tangram That Stanley Took With Him For His New Friends |
This is the Set Of Tangrams That Stanley Took For His New Friends To Try |
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Hi! My name is Flat Stan I'm a Maritime boy And coming to visit you Brings me great joy. |
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I do love to travel But even way better Are the kids that I meet When they open my letter. |
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I'd like to meet all of you And check out your school I know it is sure to be Splendid and Cool! |
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So take me around, Take me here, take me there I want to see everything I'll try not to stare. |
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There is something else I need you to see It's in my travel bag And its Ge-om-et-ry. |
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It's my very own set Of tangrams you see And wherever I go It keeps me company. |
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My tangrams can be Anything that I wish- A cat or a goat or A dog or a fish. |
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They can even make A boy just like me If I'm needing a friend If I'm getting lonely. |
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What I need you to do And I hope you don't mind I need you to make A shape – your very own kind. |
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I've brought you some tangrams Just copy them out Play with them a while You'll see what they're about. |
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And after a while When you've had time to play Would you make me a shape? Would that be okay? |
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Think about where you live And what your town's about And design a good shape Of which there's no doubt. |
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Make it some kind of shape That will show us a bit About where you live And make all 7 shapes fit. |
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Pack your special shape up (And don't forget me) And then send us back To the maritime sea. |
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My friends will be waiting To see I've returned They'll be so excited To find what I've learned. |
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Then we'll try your Tangram shape In our classroom at school I know they'll all love it And think its so cool. |
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But that's not the end Of the story, my friends If you visit our website You'll see me again. |
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We have your email Address in our book And when the site's ready We'll invite you to look. |
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So, if you are ready Come on now, let's go Show me all that you can Tell me all that you know |
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I'm ready to learn I'm ready to see I'm ready to play Are you ready for me? |
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