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Paper Student

As I promised Saturday, I will now explain the photo I took while volunteering.

 My friend is a grade school teacher in Missouri and Friday I received a letter from one of her students.  They are doing the Flat Student project.  Have you heard of it?  I think it's a modification of the Flat Stanley project.

 Her student sent me a super cute letter and paper doll of himself.  I got pretty excited and tried to take lots of pictures of the doll around Chicago this weekend.

I already showed you this picture from volunteering, but do you see the paper doll in the photo?
We took a ride along Lake Michigan
Checked out some of the ice on the path
We checked out the traffic (not so bad on a Sunday afternoon)
We biked over the Chicago River
We biked through downtown to check out some sky scrapers too

 I'm working on my letter to accompany the pictures so I can get everything back to him.  

 I was supposed to add something to the doll while I had it and wasn't sure what to add so I asked the kids I volunteered with Saturday.  Without hesitation they said he needed to be a superhero.  So I gave him a cape.  Then they said he needed shoe laces (I think they're learning to tie their shoes) so I used some string to add shoe laces.  

 I had fun working on the project.  And hope I did it right.  =)

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