"Life is a movie. Write your own ending. Keep believing. Keep pretending."
Jim Henson
Here is a picture of my classroom at Ruppel Academy on April 7, 2011.
We hung 765 cranes from the ceiling of a very bland portable building. I called this day imagination day in my classroom. We spent 20 minutes outside just being. The students could draw, write, or make shapes out of the clouds.
We need a lot more imagination days and more crane folding days. We made more than 1,000 cranes and mailed them to Oshkosh. The company promised to send an article of clothing to the children of Japan effected by the tsunami of 2011 for every folded crane.
My dedicated students came in during lunch to complete this tasks since we could not have more than one imagination day.
I recall a time in education when we could help direct the students to the needs of others and the ideal of a true global community. Now we have our students so focused on testing that we have lost the bigger picture.
Go to the address below and fold your own cranes.
Peace.
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