Amoni's Flat Stanley visits Newark, New Jersey

Dear Class,

Hi!  I sure do miss everyone at Eastern Wayne Elementary School.  I am having a very nice visit with Amoni Ethridge’s grandfather, Alton Fields.

I have been very busy.  We have visited many places and the Fields family are making me feel very welcome in their home.

I am visiting the town of Newark, New Jersey.  It is a very nice place.  We have visited the Prudential Center in downtown Newark, it is the home where the New Jersey Devil’s hockey team.  We went to Newark City Hall, The Courthouse, Essex County College, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT, ranked one of the best colleges in New Jersey), New Jersey Performing Arts Center, (that’s were many celebrities like, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keyes, Gladys Knight, Pattie LaBelle, etc. have performed and many great orchestras), Alex Haley dance school performed there, and many comedy shows.  We stayed at the Showboat casino in Atlantic City.  We went to the Crossings Outlet Mall in Pennsylvania located in the Poconos area.

I can’t wait to get back to E.W.E. and see all my friends.

Love,

Stanley

State Fact Sheet

My State is:  New Jersey

It is located in:  Eastern part of U.S.

My state bird is:  American Goldfinch

My state flower is:  Viola Sororia

My state is famous for:  The light bulb, phonograph, first movie projector, electric guitar, etc.

Some famous or fun places to visit in my state are:  Atlantic City, Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, NJ, Six Flags Great Adventure, Liberty Science Center, Cape May, Newark Museum

The weather in my state is:  In the winter, it gets really cold sometimes and sometimes we have a lot of snow.  In the summer, it is warm and sunny.  In the spring and the fall, it us usually not too hot or not too cold (I call it just right weather).

These unique animals/wildlife make their homes in my state:  Black bears, red fox, bald eagles, box turtle, red bellied woodpecker, timber rattlesnake, southern flying squirrel, etc.

Other interesting facts about my state:  New Jersey was named after the Isle of Jersey, a British crown dependency in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy, France.  The first dinosaur skeleton discovered in North America was found in Haddonfield, NJ in 1858.  The light bulb, phonograph (record player) motion picture projector was invented by Thomas A. Edison in his Menlo Park laboratory.