This post is to celebrate the hard work the students in my classroom and the students around the world did to recognize International Peace Day on September 21st.
I am brought to tears when I watch the mashup of our Peace Day videos that Mr. Ferguson's fourth grade class put together. I've never personally met Mr. Ferguson, he teaches in an American school (the ability to connect with technology is so amazing). To watch students of all ages from different continents and countries around the world talk about peace makes me so emotional. To know that teachers and students from far off places are having conversations, reading books, making skits, and writing songs then sharing their understanding of peace with other children from around the world is so powerful.
In this video over 20 classrooms from 5 continents are edited together. Listen to their message of peace ... You can find my students 1:25 into the video!
I am also proud of my 'kids' for the job they did explaining peace to CBC reporter Jenifer Norwell. We welcomed her into our classroom on September 21. Jenifer was there to record us while we Skyped with Mr. Greenberg's grade 2 class. During our Skype we answered questions and sang John Lennon's "Give Peace a Chance". Listen to our interview on CBC's Daybreak North morning show.
On International Peace day my class sat together and watched the students videos from all around the world. Here are some of my students favorite videos:
Peace from the Virgin Islands:
Peace from New Zealand:
Peace from the United States:
Peace from Ghana, Africa:
Peace from South Africa:
This was our submission. Peace from our Grade 1's at Spruceland Traditional in Canada:
As I reflect back on our participation I can say this is something I would do again, but I would try to spend even more time cultivating my students awareness of peace. I need to continue to come back to their understanding and have the students talk about it more and share what they have learned about peace. It might even be fun to create a second peace video based on what we saw from the other videos that were submitted.
I wish you peace in your classroom, peace in your community, and peace in your country.
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