Hello! We hope you enjoyed the three-day weekend! Martin Luther King Day has me dreaming and hoping for peace and love for all.
These origami cranes also have me thinking about peace. Students in this class read the picture book of Sadako by Eleanor Coerr (one of my favorite stories that I read as a child), and then learned to make origami cranes. I enjoyed helping some of the students with this task! They will be sending their paper cranes to Hiroshima, Japan to be displayed by the Children's Peace Memorial.
In 1994, Congress declared Martin Luther King Day a day of service. It felt really wonderful to be able to join these students on this day of service and drop off the toys they collected for the children at Lurie's Children's Hospital. What makes this project extra special is that the students chose to research, plan, publicize and oversee every aspect of the toy drive. Here's a short video about it. Their original goal was to collect 100 toys, and they ended up collecting over 270! I am so proud of their initiative, leadership and most importantly, the positive impact this will have on the children at Lurie's and the community!
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