Wings of Hope: Blake School Second Graders Send a Wish to Japan
The students are making 1,000 cranes for the people of Japan.
There’s a Japanese legend that anyone who folds 1,000 origami cranes will be granted a wish—a wish for long life, perhaps, or recovery from an illness. Blake School second graders know all about this legend from their twice-weekly study of Japan. So when they learned about last week’s earthquake and tsunami, the classes decided that they wanted to send a wish to the people there. Blake already had connections to Japan through the Shinnyo-en Foundation—an organization that supports educational programs. Shinnyo-en has offices in Japan that were affected by the disaster, and some Blake School teachers know people in Japan from visits there. The creation of the cranes is also a lesson in Japanese manufacturing practices like those used in …
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