Liberty Launches! #GlobalPal Project

Meet Liberty!

This special bird is one of our classroom mascots. A mascot is a person or thing that represents a group or organization.  Liberty is a bald eagle which is the national bird of America.

Liberty is on a grand Twitter  adventure to visit three of our international blogging buddies! The classes involved are Mr. Webb's students, Room 3 @ Auroa Primary School, in New Zealand, Mrs. Monaghan in England, and Miss Crowther and her  Kilmore Primary School students in Australia.  

Each blogging buddy will be sending their mascot on a journey as well. Each class will be documenting the mascot's excursions and home visits. Photos and details will be shared on Twitter using the hashtag #GlobalPal. What a fun adventure for us all!

Tomorrow, Liberty starts his #GlobalPal flight that will take him from Los Angeles, over the Pacific Ocean, on his trek to Australia! He will stay in the state of Victoria. 

U. S. A. to Australia QUESTIONS! 

Q 1: What ocean will Liberty cross? 

Q 2: What important line of latitude will Liberty cross?

Q 3: What hemispheres did Liberty reside? 

Q 4: What hemispheres will Liberty enter?

Q 5: How many states in the United States?

Q 6: How is Australia divided up?

Q 7: How many miles will he travel? How many kilometers?  

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After some weeks there, Liberty will head to England.

Australia to England QUESTIONS! 

Q 1: What ocean and sea will Liberty cross? 

Q 2: What important line of latitude will Liberty cross again?

Q 3: What important line of longitude will Liberty cross? 

Q 4: What hemispheres will Liberty enter?

Q 5: What do you know about England?

Q 6: How is Australia divided up?  

Q 7: How many miles will he travel? How many kilometers?  

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After a few weeks in England, Liberty will start the last leg of the journey, a jaunt over to New Zealand. 

England to New Zealand QUESTIONS! 

Q 1: What ocean and sea will Liberty cross again? 

Q 2: What important line of latitude will Liberty cross for a third time?

Q 3: What important line of longitude will Liberty cross again? 

Q4: What hemispheres will Liberty enter?

Q 5: What do you know about New Zealand?

Q 6: How is New Zealand divided up? 

Q 7: How many miles will he travel? How many kilometers?  

Before Liberty left, he enjoyed some time with Mrs. Yollis and her students. Liberty loved learning about multiplication! Liberty learned that when you create rows and columns in multiplication, it is called an array. Liberty, grab a tile with your talon and help us build an array. 

This array is two rows of four.
2 x 4 = 8 tiles  







This array is four rows of two.
4 x 2 = 8 tiles  






Liberty thoroughly enjoy reading some of the revised narratives. 
Liberty loved the great show not tell writing. 

In the afternoon, Liberty learned how to code on the website code.org.

He observed the class, perched on the plump pumpkins that were measured at the Halloween party last week. 

Liberty thoroughly enjoyed watching the students play outside during recess. The air temperature measured 84 ˚ F (29˚C), and he pondered what the weather was like in Victoria, Australia. 

Photo by Mrs. Yollis 

It is fall in the northern hemisphere. However, we have very mild winters here in southern California. In addition,  Los Angeles is 35˚ N and 118˚ W. while the coordinates of Kilmore, Victoria, Australia, are 37˚ S and 145˚ E. How will the differences in latitude affect Liberty? 

Again, we will chart his journey using the 

Twitter hashtag: 

#GlobalPal

Share your answers to the red, blue, or orange questions in comment section!

Which mascot will visit us first? Stay tuned to find out!