Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Legend of the 1000 Cranes

For New Works this 6 weeks we wrote Haikus, made paper cranes using oragami, and studided the fable of the 1000 cranes. Legend has it that if you fold 1000 paper cranes with your wish inside your wish will come true. Since having 160 kids fold 1000 cranes would take the rest of the year we split it up and we all folded 10 cranes. i know the math doesn't work out exactly but its close so we went with it. Then we all wrote our Haikus of our own. You could say we studied two things at once (the 1000 cranes and japanese history) and we just included and went all out with the fable because it originated in Japan. I liked this topic for the 6 weeks and I can't wait to find out what is next.

My Haiku

The Glorious Crane
Stands tall and mighty for me
Guarding my wishes

I wrote this for my new works class. We did oragami and folded paper cranes, we wrote haikus, and we wrote our wishes in the center of the paper cranes. We hung them up in the hallway and they are very pretty.