On August 6th at 8.15 in 1945, The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan and three days later on Nagasaki. These are the only atomic bombs used by any country.
Japan remembers this day, holding a Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima to remember the 140,000 people who died after the atomic bomb was dropped, in the hope that nuclear weapons will never be used again.
It seemed a timely opportunity to revisit the inspirational story of Sadako who was two when the bomb was dropped and passed away as a young 12 year old from radiation sickness.
We chose to focus on peace in our art lessons and we talked about friendships, acceptance, diversity and building bridges.
Some students chose to make some huge peace cranes, painting them and adding wonderful colour, some writing "peace on their wings to spread peace all over the world" ....just as Sadako intended.
Some students collected stones from our Discovery Garden and created some "peace stones" to place in our Peace Garden .
A symbolic gesture...reaching a hand of friendship out to others.
These seats are part of our Peace Garden. They are our Friendship Seats.
Some girls were drawn to our nearby Bush Tucker Garden where they left a message of peace in the sand path....
Wouldn't it be fabulous.................maybe this generation???
2 comments:
I loved seeing all these beautiful coloured stones suddenly appear after lunch yesterday (clearly I wasn't wandering around during lunch to notice them- only on my walk up to the art room)! I thought some of them were brilliantly done- I'll have to go take a closer look when I'm not shepherding 2/3s to class ;)
Thanks Emily :) They do look great....matches all the work in the garden the kids have done all week.
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