Wow, a whole year has gone by and we are back here to create Cranes for Peace again in 2014! We look forward to again working with schools around the globe to celebrate World Peace Day on 21 September. Watch this space!
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Peace Crane Connections on Display
During a recent Global Classroom Project monthly Twitter chat (#globalclassroom), Tina Schmidt from St Ignatius in Pennsylvania shared what the Peace Crane Project Display looked like on her bulletin board. So lovely!
Peace Cranes and Gifts from Hawaii
It has been a busy two weeks, so I have not had a chance to update the blog, but about 10 days ago we received a parcel from Hawaii. This is what was inside it:
So colourful! Very fitting for Hawaiian cranes. Thank you Ms Kurashige and students at the Mid-Pacific Institute – we love your cranes!
We are still eagerly awaiting a parcel from Siberia… we do hope they arrive soon.
Special Cranes and Special Poetry
We were spoilt in Cape Town last week. Two parcels in two days!
This time the peace cranes were received from The Phoenix School in Salem, Massachusetts. Along with the cranes we also received a lovely letter and a beautiful poem written by the Phoenix School students. I would like to share it with you:
Peace
We should love peace
Peace is about caring
Peace is love
Peace is
Love, hope and friends
Holding hands
Peace holds us together
Peace is about our friends and families
And the ones watching from above
Grab a friend, a sister or brother
To care for each other and dance.
Peace helps people everywhere
Peace can change people’s heart so they can become good
Peace is what makes community
Someday we’ll live in friendship
Peace is wonderful and keeps the Earth healthy
As Peace wakes up to shine in the world
Harmony envelopes the fragile Earth.
A world without peace could not be good
Peace is a little of everyone
We should have peace everywhere
Peace is what holds us together
Peace is
Life
Hope
Quiet
Peace kills bad
Peace helps war dissolve
Peace is you
Peace is me
Peace is us
Peace is why we’re here
Peace is what holds the Earth together
By the Phoenix School Kids
Now, please explain this to me – if the children of the world understand peace, how is it that we adults get it so wrong?
Peace messages from Pennsylvania to Cape Town
Last week Thursday a parcel arrived for us from Pennsylvania in the USA! Inside were beautiful peace cranes, a letter from the teachers and students at St Ignatius, some Halloween stickers and a postcard from Pennsylvania.
The letter was very special and in it were some messages of Peace the school wanted to share with us. I’s like to share them with you. I’m sure you will find them as special as we did!
Make peace in our world.
May peace be with you.
May peace begin in your heart.
Let peace be in your neighbours.
Peace be everywhere.
Peace in your classroom.
May the peace of Jesus spread in your school.
Let peace surround us all.
Let peace blossom where you live.
Peace Cranes Arrive in WA from South Africa!
Today is our first day back to school for our last term of the year and in my pigeon hole was this envelope.I was so excited to see it . These are the first cranes our school has received as sadly the cranes from our exchange school in Siberia were lost in the mail.
Thank you to the children from Elkanah who created these. The children are back to school tomorrow and they will be so exited to see them and I’m sure they will say how beautiful and creative they are.
I will post some more photos soon.
Reblogged from the Mid-Pacific Institute (Hawaii) Website: Peace Crane Project
Thursday, Sept. 19, sixth and eighth grade students of teacher Melvina Kurashige folded origami cranes for the Peace Crane Project. Students shared short messages/poems of Peace on or inside of their origami crane and wrote “HEIWA” (Peace in Japanese) in Hiragana and Kanji. The cranes folded by MPI students will be sent to South Africa and Japan.
The Peace Crane Project is designed to raise awareness of the United Nations International Day of Peace on September 21, and promote the concept of peace within and among our schools, homes, communities, states, and nations. Everyone around the world; students, community groups, families, and individuals are invited to participate.
For information, please click here.
To view a photo gallery of the MPI cranes, please click here.
Elkanah Gets Ready to Send Their Cranes
We are so excited! Finally our peace cranes are completed and ready to send. These are the first two envelopes packed. Are they coming to you?
Elkanah Peace Cranes
Here are some of our students with their cranes which are in the mail as I type:
We’ve Started on our Cranes at Elkanah
Unbeknown to me, our clever Art teacher, Miss Crous, has already started making cranes with our Grade 6’s and one class (out of four) has already completed their cranes. Here are some photos I took of one of the classes starting on their cranes today.
Miss Crous showing the students how to fold their cranes.
Mmm… it is more difficult than you think it is!
The Art teacher and her students – learning how to do origami.
Carefully does it – concentrate now!
The completed cranes – aren’t they colourful?
Cranes 4 Peace 