The Grade 4 class from St. Michael School will be sending 1,000 paper cranes to the Children's Peace Monument in Hiroshima, Japan, as their way of celebrating peace and remembering the devastation caused by the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Under the direction of teacher Alyssa Slinn, the class made 1,000 cranes after reading the book, “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes” by Eleanor Coerr.
The story is about a Japanese girl named Sadako, who was two years old when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima at the end of the Second World War in 1945.
When she was in Grade 6, she was diagnosed with leukemia, and was told by a friend that if she folded 1,000 paper cranes she would recover. Unfortunately, Sadako passed away before she reached 1,000.
In honour of Sadako, the Grade 4 class at St. Michael created 1,000 paper cranes, and will be sending them to the Children’s Peace Monument in Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.
The cranes will include the message, “We made these cranes in memory of Sadako who never gave up and had hope in the future. Peace comes from within. Everyone loves when you share your peace with them. We encourage you to go and spread your peace with others.”
The class includes Pauleen Malpaya, Brooklyn Bedore, Devon Borshowa, Noah Bourassa, Kalyna Fodchuk, Natalie Harazny, Jaxson Kot, Marin Kurtz, Sienna McMorris, Andrea Ochavo, Emmanuel Pallarca, Harshvi Patel, Katie Pelchat, Amy Roemer, Lianne Santos, Jackson Stadnek, Hayden Surovy, Acacia Wanner, Meaghan Weger, Mickenzie Whitford and Justin Whitrow.
Harazny, McMorris, Patel, Santos and Whitrow made the most cranes out of the class.
