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Origami Day with Mrs. Sessler

5/15/2013

We were so fortunate to have Mrs. Sessler teach an origami lesson to each of the fourth grade classes. She shared about her Japanese heritage, showed us her mother's artistry, told the story of Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes, and lead all the students through the steps to make an origami paper crane. This was such a meaningful experience for all our students. Thank you so much for sharing your talents and culture, Mrs. Sessler!

Learn more about Sadako's story with this sweet child made stop motion animation.
View all of our paper cranes in our online art gallery on Artsonia.
Watch the animato video of our time with Mrs. Sessler below or at this link.
When Japan suffered from an earthquake an tsunami in 2011, Dryden Students joined Students Rebuild to show we cared with paper cranes.
Learn about this here.

The fourth graders signed a big thank you origami crane for Mrs. Sessler.

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Global Compassion-Our students made a difference!

12/16/2011

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Dryden students participated in the Students Rebuild project to help Japan after the earthquake. by folding paper cranes and mailing them to the foundation. Each crane would trigger funding for recovery and reconstruction from the Bezos Family Foundation.
The goal was 100,000 cranes, which would trigger $200,000 to fund Architecture for Humanity's reconstruction efforts in the devastated Tohoku region of Japan. The response—an incredible 2 million cranes from young people in 38 countries worldwide and all 50 U.S. states—exceeded our wildest hopes.

Wowed by the global outpouring of support for Japan, celebrated artist Vik Muniz generously donated his time, his vision and his creativity to produce a magnificent piece of original artwork using thousands of the cranes. "It's alchemic," said Vik Muniz, in The New York Times Sunday Magazine story. "It worked because everyone wanted to help."

Watch the video below to learn more about the project, the art installation, and the artist who volunteered to help. We purchased the poster and have it hung in the hallway. It is so detailed that you can probably find your own paper crane in the image.

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Tricia Fuglestad, NBCT,
is the K-5 art teacher at Dryden Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. with a masters in K-12 technology integration. Tricia has been recognized for her innovative teaching in 2010 with the PBS Teachers Innovation Award, won Illinois Art Teacher of the Year in 2011, awarded Teacher of Distinction in 2012 by the Golden Apple Foundation, received Western Region Elementary Art Teacher of the Year 2013, selected to become a Jacobs Educator 2014-15, was presented with the NAEA Art Technology Outstanding Community Service Award in 2016, honored with the ISTE Teacher Educator Network Tech in Action award, 2018, and won an Art Education Leadership Award via Artsonia in 2019. Learn more here.