Class of 2026 Visits the ‘Statue of Liberty’
By Theodore Cornick
“It has a great historical background,” said Libby and Graham, from Australia. “It symbolizes freedom and liberty,” exclaimed Edwin and Adrianna coming from Houston on the boat going to the Statue of Liberty. Here we go!!!!!!!!
In 1886 the Statue of Liberty was a gift from France because it was America’s 100th year anniversary. This statue was made by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and it was based on his family. The statue’s head is based on his wife or brother, you can call it either one of them, their identical. The body is based on his wife. Bartholdi choose Bedloe’s Island because it was the smallest island and when he came to find where to put it, he wanted a place that would stand out. He wanted people to look at the statue not go on it.
This sculpture was not originally green. The statue was made of copper. Copper turns green when it is exposed to the air for a long time.
Did you know that the pedestal is taller than the statue itself? The statue is 62,000 pounds. The crown represents the 7 seas, the 7 continents, and the sun. The average time the sculpture gets struck by lightning is 400 times a year. Fun Fact: the nose had 3 holes in it and they were thinking about patching it up with a nose ring, but the government did not like it.
If I were the Statue of Liberty I would say “freedom for all.”A question I have is that how many people come to the Statue of Liberty every day. The Statue of Liberty is a landmark for all and will never stop being one.
The DS4 Times
April 12, 2018
By Bayo
What does the Statue of Liberty stand for?
Today DS4, a 4th grade class at Little Red Schoolhouse, went to the Statue of Liberty for a field trip following their immigration study they were having. They went on Tuesday April, 10.
The first thing they did was walk from their school in the West Village to the Houston St station where they caught the 1 train to the South Ferry station. When they got to the station they walked to a bench near the port where the boat would be taking off.
The tickets were in Castle Garden, which is the place where immigrants would go before Ellis Island was made. “It is pretty small for a place that let immigrants come in,” a student named Bayo commented. Deborah, one of the teachers for DS4, and Bayo, a student, went to get the tickets while the other students were eating snack. When Deborah and Bayo were coming back Bayo said he saw something about batteries. “Though it isn’t like the batteries we use for our devices and games there is a second meaning, which is a fortified emplacement for heavy guns which is pretty cool.” Bayo commented. After Deborah and Bayo returned with the tickets the class went to the gate for the boat. Then they were on their way.
When DS4 got to the Statue of Liberty they split up into groups and agreed that they were going to meet at 1:00 so they know where everyone is when it is time to leave. All the groups had to go to all 3 sections Pedestal museum, the actually pedestal itself and the Statue of liberty crown museum. The group that was Shelby with is Bayo, Macy and Saffron went to the Pedestal museum first. When they got there they opened their trip sheet which on one page had questions on it like how much does the statue of liberty weigh and so in. After they answered the questions they went to the top part of the pedestal. Saffron, one of the students, commented on the amount of stairs saying “wow this is a lot of stairs”. When they got to the top of the pedestal they went onto another page of their trip sheet which was to interview someone, the person they interviewed was named Vani she was from India when Saffron, Macy and Bayo asked her about her thoughts on the Statue of Liberty she responded “It’s a good spot for tourist” Bayo commented later “that she probably didn’t know what the Statue of Liberty actually stood for.”
Then the class went back on the boat back to Manhattan and then the trip was over.
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Statue of Liberty: What is its significance?
By Cy Fawkes
April 10, 2018
Cy Fawkes and his 4th grade class from LREI visited the Statue of Liberty today. They had studied about the statue for a while but today was finally the day that they were going too see it.
The class only had tickets to the top of the pedestal but it was still pretty fun in their opinion. They met a park ranger named Ian at the top of the pedestal. He told them all about the statue and who made it. The Statue of Liberty was made in France to celebrate the US’s 100th birthday as a gift from France.
It was constructed on Bedloe’s Island on October 28, 1886. It was planned to be on 1876 but the people designing and creating the statue ran low on funding. The idea came from a man named Laboulayes. Then a French artist Bartholdi heard about the idea and he wanted to make it. With the help of an engineer named Eiffel they started designing the statue and that is how it has came to be this landmark in NYC.
On the ferry there Cy interviewed four different people from two different places. The first two were Libby and Graham from Australia and they went because it has a great historical significance. The other two were Edwin and Adriana from Houston, Texas. It was a new experience for them and they came because the statue was a big US landmark. They thought that it symbolized liberty and freedom.
In the end the 4th grade class learned so many new facts such as it weighs 66,00 pounds in their wonderful experience. They all had loved the trip and pondered the idea of, what is liberty?
Deborah＆Shelby’s Fourth Grade Class Take a
Trip To The Statue of Liberty
April 10th, 2018
By Harley Bosamonte
Deborah and Shelby’s class, a fourth grade class at LREI, a school in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, went to the Statue of Liberty on April 10th. They interviewed some passengers that were on the boat asking questions like, “What is your name? Where are you from? What are your thoughts on the Statue of Liberty?” The students got many different answers from different people.
To get there, the students, teachers, and parent chaperones took a train to the ferry. Then they took a ferry all the way to The Statue. While on the ferry, some students interviewed the passengers on the ferry. Students named Sebastian, Sonia and Harley interviewed a woman from Ireland, named Cliabhana. She said “I don’t know much about it. But I hope to learn more on my trip.” Sonia and Harley also interviewed parent chaperone, Momii (Sebastian’s mother), who is from California.
She said, “I think it means different things to different people.”
The students also learned a few facts about the statue. Here are some things they learned that the statue is 151 feet tall, it is 62,000 pounds, and the 7 points on her crown represent the 7 seas and continents.
The Statue of Liberty is located on Bedloe’s Island. The creator of the Statue chose this area because it would be the first thing you saw on the island, and “Bedloe’s Island is small, so if you put a small statue on a small island it looks bigger.”, said a person who worked at the Statue of Liberty Museum.
It was 20 days into spring, but some students claimed to be cold.
They went to learn more about the Statue of Liberty. In preparation for the trip, they learned some things about the statue during class. For example, Sebastian (mentioned in second paragraph), brought in a book by David Eggers called “ Her Right Foot” in this book, they learned that the statue’s right foot is raised, which means she is walking. One student named Hanako tried to guess where she could be going. She said, “ She is facing east, and that is the direction the sun rises in. So maybe it represents a new day.”
4th Graders Visit the Statue of Liberty and Have Fun
Date: April 10th
By Henry Edward Hutchins
On Tuesday, April 10th, at 9am, 18 Fourth Graders started their adventure. Their teachers planned a trip to the Statue of Liberty because the Fourth Graders have been studying immigration!
They started the trip by walking to a subway then they went through security,so next they went on a boat to the island where the statue of liberty stands on a big square rock which is also known as the pedestal! They went through security again and had lunch. The kids weren’t allowed to touch the statue but they walked under it Arlo thought it was a little amazing.
They then went to a museum and wrote down questions about the statue of liberty and thought about how tall it was, how much it weighed… Then they got back to the boat (after going through security AGAIN) and went back to school.
Quotes: Theo thought “the trip was amazing” Al thought the trip was “the trip was very inspiring!” Arlo thinks the trip is amazing.
A FOURTH GRADE CLASS VISITS STATUE OF
LIBERTY
By Arlo Scherr
On April 10th 2018 DS4, a class in LREI, visited the Statue of Liberty. I interviewed One chaperone on the ferry he says “the Statue is inspirational and it shows that America is a land of immigrants”. The chaperone’s name is Jason and he’s a parent of a student.
The kids in DS4 went to the South Ferry train station. Then they transferred to a ferry that took them to the Statue of Liberty. They had lunch and got in a bad situation with seagulls. The seagulls tried to eat people’s lunches.
Once DS4 got into the museum they had to answer questions on a trip sheet like: How much does the Statue of Liberty weigh, and how tall is it?
The reason for this trip was that they were studying the meaning of the Statue. Some of the students in DS4 went up to the pedestal. They observed how tall the SOL is.
But they didn’t know how to get down other than to leave the building. So they had to exit and re-enter. Here are some of the facts the students learned. The Statue of Liberty was re-done in the 1980’s. Also it’s 151 feet tall. And it is green because of a chemical called oxidine. The Statue of Liberty and the pedestal weigh 450,000 pounds.
Also they explored a model of the head. It was the actual size! A student named Henry says “This model is so cool”. DS4 also explored ads that included the Statue of Liberty. Also they saw ads to get war bonds. They also listened to recordings of immigrants looking at the SOL.
DS4 got back to school at 2:45 PM so they could have free time before they left for home. And they wrote a news article about it or a poem.
L.R.E.I.®️ Fourth Graders Go to The Statue of Liberty
By Bo Gardner
On April 10, 2018 Lrei Fourth Graders went to The Statue Of liberty.
The fourth graders first got on the 1 train, then got off at South Ferry. The kids then walked through Battery Park and then got on to the “Statue Cruise” boat. The fourth graders then interviewed people about where they from and there thoughts on the Statue of Liberty. A kid named Bo interviewed a person from Australia, he said, ”It has great historical significance.” After that, the boat came in to the island and the eager class did a full walk around the statue. They eat on a bench by the water but, while they were eating lunch a flock of seagulls came over and pestered them. Many kids got annoyed at a student who they said “Attracted the birds.” A kid named Cy said, “Back of birds!”
After having an eventful lunch, the kids set of to the pedestal. The pedestal is 65 feet tall and the fourth graders climbed to the top of it. Many of the kids said that it was a long hike and some kids said it was nothing. They met a park ranger named Ian. He told them some things they did not know, like how the statue weighs 62,000 pounds, how it is 151 feet tall and why they replaced the torch. Ian also told them how he had climbed to the top of the torch and got into a lot of trouble.
At the end of the trip, the kids got back on the boat and went back to their school. When they got back, they wrote about the trip and made their own versions of the Statue of Liberty.
LREI NEWS
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
A7
By Sebastian Takeshi Harding
Deborah and Shelby’s fourth grade class set off on an adventure on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. They were going to the Statue of Liberty to learn more about how it was built and why. It is there. They set off on a trip with a lot of transportation, they took a train and a ferry. They also interviewed people on the ferry to see what people thought about the statue of liberty.
A when the fourth graders finally got to Bedloe Island they ate lunch on a bench. Lunch was going well at first but then seagulls noticed them and swarmed them like a group of ants swarming a piece of watermelon. In this case we were the watermelon. Some of the students lost their appetites and some students kept feeding the seagulls their Pirate Booties.
After lunch Deborah and Shelby’s 4th grade split up into groups of 3. All the groups were supposed to meet at a wall near the entrance by 1:30 pm.
In Momii’s group they went to the top of the pedestal were the feet are and there was a sign that said there was 195 steps leading to the pedestal but a student named Harley counted 196. When they got to the top of the pedestal there was a window on the ceiling and you could see the inside of the Statue of Liberty. Their teachers said they didn’t have the tickets to go to the top so they weren’t allowed to go to the top but if they were than they would go up a winding staircase. There was a gentleman that was at the top of the pedestal and said that when you go higher up the stairs get narrower. They also had a emergency elevator that only fit 3 people. The gentleman said that it was for if someone breaks their arm or if someone was to pass out.
The fourth graders made sculptures of what they thought a Statue of Liberty would look like today in 2018. They made it in Art and Shop at their school LREI.
Deborah and Shelby’s fourth grade class persevered to learn a lot even though some students were tired or felt sick. It was an amazing trip!
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