Flat Stanley Visits Alaska What I've learned, so far... Nick Spalding, a 4th grader in Mrs. Schraub's class at Northern Hills Elementary in San Antonio, Texas, sent me to Alaska more than a month ago. He told me my guide and teacher would be a Miss Kitty ... but I didn't know she really was a kitty. Well, what does a cat know about Alaska, I might have thought ... but it turns out that this cat knows a lot about it. After all, she has lived in Alaska her whole life! Click here to read Alaska Fun Facts, see a map, and hear the music to Alaska's flag song: http://www.alaskasbest.com/facts.htm It gets really cold in Alaska in the winter -- the record low winter temperature is 80 degrees below zero in the north. Alaska has warm weather, too -- the record high summer temperature is 100 degrees above zero in the middle of the state. Summer days are very long. They call Alaska the Land of the Midnight Sun, because in summer the sun stays up all night in northern Alaska and most of the night farther south. That makes flowers and vegetables and crops grow very fast -- and very big.
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