| The Traveling Buddies Project is a project involving 63 early childhood teachers across North America for the 2005-2006 school year. Each teacher is a part of a travel group. A travel group is a group of seven teachers who will be working together for the school year by sending a "buddy" to each classroom in their group throughout the year. Traveling Buddies Project teachers are teachers who desire to further their students' knowledge of technology and geography through the adventures of their classroom buddy who is sent to classrooms throughout the continent. Each buddy's adventures will be recorded through a journal, emails, and if possible, through a website. Objective: The traveling buddies project is a mascot exchange program where up to seven collaborating classrooms (per group) will learn about other areas of the country through the exchange of a class "buddy", email, journal, and digital photos. Our Class is paired up with six other teachers from around the country. Each month we will send our buddy to a new class, and receive a buddy. We will have buddies from Oregon, Michigan, Nevada, Washington DC, Connecticut and South Carolina. Each month we will learn about a community through information sent to us from the buddy class. We will be studying state symbols, environment, and location. Students will record their knowledge of the state and city in a Traveling Buddies book. Traveling Buddies Book 1. Students will color in the state on the map. 2. Students will record city, state, and school. 3. Students will draw a picture of the mascot and record why the mascot was chosen. 4. Students will draw a picture of the city's environment. 5. Students will list three facts learned about the city and/or state |
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| Travel Buddies |
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| Our Buddy's name is Buffy Lou the buffalo. The American Buffalo is Oklahoma's state animal. |
| Our Fabulous First Grade with Buffy Lou! |
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| Our US map waiting to be filled with pictures of our friends around the continent! |
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| Our new friend Patrick the panther from Gold Hill Oregon. |
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