Students and Cranes...
About a month ago, I learned about a program that the clothing store OshKosh was doing called "Cranes for Kids" where, for every paper crane that was made, they would donate one article of clothing for a child who had been affected by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. I showed this program to my mother, and we decided to have the upper graders and 9th graders at our school make cranes for a week for it. We weren't sure how many they would be able to make (we were figuring maybe around 150), and we were pleasantly surprised when the final total was 368. They probably would have made even more if the music festival we had to attend hadn't occurred that week.
The 4th-9th grades with the cranes
All of the cranes (The students wasted no paper in making the cranes. They used color copy paper, which they had to cut into squares, and they took the leftover scrapes and made cranes from those pictures. There were some very tiny cranes.)
The 4th-9th grades with the cranes
All of the cranes (The students wasted no paper in making the cranes. They used color copy paper, which they had to cut into squares, and they took the leftover scrapes and made cranes from those pictures. There were some very tiny cranes.)