NES STUDENTS FOLD 1,000 PEACE CRANES

COURTESY GEORGE MACLELLAN NES student origami teachers: K.D. Tornovish, Jed Monaco, Grace Bartlett, Lauren Bresette, Victoria Wilson, Meghan Murphy, Ronan Daly and Emmett Daly

"The Story of Sadako and a Thousand Paper Cranes" is about a young Hiroshima girl who fell terminally ill after the Atom bombing and who tried to fold 1,000 origami cranes to earn the wish to save herself. Today, children from all over the world fold peace cranes and send them to Hiroshima in her honor. Nantucket Elementary School special education teacher Susan Kervin introduced the project to Nantucket Elementary School students. "Once I started teaching origami to our kids, I realized we could make the 1,000 cranes and that it would be a nice community building project for the school," said Kervin, who added that origami strengthens students' intuitive thinking, special awareness and math skills. "The kids loved it. The Web site said it would be contagious, and now there's origami all over our

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