As a teacher I read to my class "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes". Then taught my 3rd graders to make paper cranes with the goal of folding 1,000 paper cranes to send them to Sadako's statue in Japan. They could only fold in their free time when they had their work done. It helped with work completion and if they handed in work quickly that had tons of mistakes they couldn't fold for a while so that didn't happen very often. In several months we had chains on strings of folded paper cranes hanging all over the room. I used 6 x 6 pieces cut from old magazines. We ended up sending 3 chains of paper cranes to Sadako's statue in Hiroshimo, Japan. That's 3,000 paper cranes with a couple of my young ladies making over 500 cranes each. Everyone in the class did at least 10 cranes. They knew about the atomic bomb and the symbolic meaning of the cranes promoting peace. This was an activity that was remembered into these students' adulthood. I was so proud of their efforts. Some could fold out a quality crane in a few minutes after a little practice.
As a teacher I read to my class "Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes". Then taught my 3rd graders to make paper cranes with the goal of folding 1,000 paper cranes to send them to Sadako's statue in Japan. They could only fold in their free time when they had their work done. It helped with work completion and if they handed in work quickly that had tons of mistakes they couldn't fold for a while so that didn't happen very often. In several months we had chains on strings of folded paper cranes hanging all over the room. I used 6 x 6 pieces cut from old magazines. We ended up sending 3 chains of paper cranes to Sadako's statue in Hiroshimo, Japan. That's 3,000 paper cranes with a couple of my young ladies making over 500 cranes each. Everyone in the class did at least 10 cranes. They knew about the atomic bomb and the symbolic meaning of the cranes promoting peace. This was an activity that was remembered into these students' adulthood. I was so proud of their efforts. Some could fold out a quality crane in a few minutes after a little practice.