Folding Cranes with Mrs. Crow's 4th Graders

Once again this year I was invited to show Mrs. Crow's 4th Grade class how to fold origami cranes.  This post is for Mrs. Crow and her students in Room 12 at Jefferson Elementary School.

Mrs. Crow's class finished reading the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.  It is the story about Sadako Sasaki.  This story was one of the reasons I started folding paper cranes.

As usual Mrs. Crow's class was wonderful! 

They listened . . . they folded . . . they asked questions . . .

A few of the kids who already knew how to fold a paper crane or caught on quickly helped the others.  I had an opportunity to tell them about my 1000 paper crane project and they learned how to fold a paper crane. 

Every student fold a paper crane.

Hopefully some of them will be looking at this post.  They did such and awesome job.

I wish I could post pictures of their faces . . . I so enjoy their smiles.

This year Mrs. Crow has decided to have her students fold a few more cranes and make mobiles out of them.  She wants to take them to a cancer ward to display. 

An ancient Japanese legend promises that anyone who folds 1000 paper cranes will be granted a wish by a crane - such as a long life or recovery from an illness or injury.  It will be room 12's wish for recovery for people who are fighting cancer.

PEACE . . . LOVE . . . CRANES!  She just happened to wear the perfect shirt today for my blog.  :)

Thank you Mrs. Crow for sharing you wonderful students with me!  Thank you for everything you do as a teacher for them! 

 

Life has taken me away from my crane project a little bit . . . working with the kids today has motivated me to get moving on my project. 

#293

dropped @ St. Agnes Cancer Center - Fresno, CA on 4/8/13

 

"The secret of contentement is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desires for things beyeond your reach." 

    ~ Yutang Lin

#292

dropped @ Clovis Veteran's Memorial Bldg. - Clovis, CA on 3/21/13

 

"What lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.":

                                                               ~ Aristotle

 

#291

dropped @ Clovis Veteran's Memorial Bldg. - Clovis, CA on 3/21/13

 

" Nothing can make our life or the lives of other people more beautiful than perpetual kindness."  ~ Leo Tolstoy

 

 

#290

dropped @ St. Agnes Medical Center - Fresno, CA on 3/19/13

 

"Each time of life has it's own kind of love."  ~ Leo Tolstoy

#289

dropped @ St. Agnes Medical Center - Fresno, CA on 3/19/13

 

"We are all what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."  ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Dedicated to Elaine

This crane is dedicated to Elaine . . . by her daughter Teresa.  Elaine lost her battle with cancer in May of 2011.  Teresa also sent me this quote for the crane dedicated to her mother.

 

"There is a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall or how you got a scar on your face. Sometimes stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins."   ~ Mitch Albom - For One More Day

#288

dropped @ Home Goods Store - Clovis, CA on 3/15/13

"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."  ~ Bertrand Russell

#287

dropped @ Starbucks - Temperance/Alluvial - Clovis, CA on 3/15/15

"Choose which seems best, and in the doing, it will become agreeable and easy".  ~ Pythagoras

#286

dropped @ Hancock Fabric Store - Clovis, CA on 3/13/13

"Life moves pretty fast.  If you don't stop and take a look around once in awhile you could miss it."  ~ Ferris Bueller

#285

dropped @ Target - Clovis, CA on 3/1/13

 

"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience."  ~ Mark Twain

#284

dropped @ Subs & Grub - Clovis, CA on 3/1/13

 

A single idea can transform a life, a family, a school, a world.

#283

dropped @ More Than Pizza - Clovis, CA on 2/24/13

 

“I will speak ill of no man and speak all the good I know of everybody.”  ~ Benjamin Franklin

#282

dropped @ tennis courts - CHS - Clovis, CA on 2/3/13

"When one loves, one does not calculate. "  Mother Teresa

#281

dropped @ Target - Clovis, CA on 1/31/12

"Tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious live."  ~ Mary Oliver

#280

dropped @ Target - Clovis, CA on 1/31/13

"When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.  ~ Instructions for Life.

Sandy Hook Memorial Project

Students and teachers from Montery park folded 2000 cranes in memory of the students killed and Sandy Hook Elementary School.  Read the rest of the story here -Sandy Hook Memorial Project

#279

dropped @ Sequoia Brewing - Fresno, CA on 1/26/13

Dance to the tune that is played.  ~ Spanish Proverb

#278

dropped @ Target - Clovis, CA on 1/26/13

"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.  ~ Meister Eckhart

#277 and a special crane from Texas

dropped at Dallas Farmer's Market - Dallas, Texas on 1/20/13

Respect for self, Respect for others, Responsibility for all your actions  ~ Instructions for Life

I have always dropped all of my cranes for this project myself - but this crane went to Dallas, Texas and was left by someone I met online who also has a paper crane project.  366 cranes  Check out her project on facebook.  She also sent one of her cranes to me to place for her.

dropped @ The Peace Garden - Fresno State - Fresno, CA on 1/21/13

#276

dropped @ More Than Pizza - Clovis, CA on 1/18/13

" . . . the true secret of happiness lies in the taking a genuine interest in all the details of life . . . "  ~ William Morris

#275

dropped @ Red Wave Inn - Fresno, CA on 1/11/13
"Who is strong?  He that can conquer his bad habits."

                                                                 ~ Benjamin Franklin

274

dropped @ Henry Madden Library - Fresno State - Fresno, CA on 1/1/13

It's not your beliefs that make you a better person -

it's your behavior.

#273

dropped @ Henry Madden Library - Fresno State - Fresno, CA on1/11/13

Believe in love at first sight.  ~ Instructions for Life

#272

dropped @ Henry Madden Library - Fresno State - Fresno, CA on 1/11/13

"Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness is giving creates love."  ~ Lao Tzo

#271

dropped @ Walgreen's - Clovis, CA on 1/8/13

"One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats."

                                                                                  ~ Iris Murdoch

#270

dropped @ Woman's Breast Center - Fresno, CA on 1/7/13

"Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears."

                                                                         ~ Marcus Aurelius

another 1000 crane project

Check out this blog . . . another 1000 crane project!



Project Peace and Grace

#269

dropped @ Old Town Sacramento - Sacramento, CA on 1/1/13

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."  ~ Amelia Earhart

#268

dropped @ Old Town Sacramento - Sacramento, CA on 1/1/13

"Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is

the truth."  ~ Mahatma Gandhi

#267

dropped @ La Terrazza - Old Town Sacramento - Sacramento, CA on 1/1/13

""Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."  ~ Leo Tolstoy

 

#266

dropped @ Evangeline's Old Town Sacramento - Sacramento, CA on 1/1/13

Remember that great love and great achievements involve

great risk.  ~ Instructions for Life

#265

dropped @ Old Town Sacramento - Sacramento, CA on 1/1/13

"Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness."  ~ Leo Tolstoy

#264

dropped @ Old Town Sacramento - Sacramento, CA on 1/1/13

Read more books and watch less TV.  ~ Instructions for Life

#263

dropped @ candy shop - Old Town Sacramento - Sacramento, CA on 1/1/13

"Life begets life.  Energy creates energy.  it is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."  ~ Sarah Bernhardt

#262

dropped @ Old Town Sacramento - Sacramento, CA on 1/1/13

When you have a problem, make a choice . . . you'll feel better.

#261

dropped @ Raley's - Chico, CA on 12/31/12

Some people choose to live by complaining, other people

choose to live.

#260

dropped @ Park - downtown Chico, CA on 12/31/12

It is not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.  ~ Paul Bryant

#259

dropped @ House of Rice - Chico, CA on 12/31/12

"People change and forget to tell each other."  ~ Lillian Hellman