Sadako and a Thousand Paper Cranes

I have chosen this piece of work to share because Im proud of it and I enjoyed learning about it. I also chose this work because it lets you know about what we were learning about. In this lesson miss alam read a book called sadako and a thousand paper cranes. I really liked that book because it was sad and there was heaps of action. Every time miss alam finished a new chapter we would draw what we heard onto our story board. I mostly enjoyed drawing about sadako and her story. When we finished the story we made paper cranes which  was very hard people were getting extremely frustrated. Then we made paper lanterns I liked that part because we got to write values that we have or that we want.  

The aim of the lesson was to learn about the Hiroshima bombing and what happened after it, another aim was to understand what the Hiroshima bomb did and how it affected the people living there. I learnt that radiation from the Hiroshima bomb caused birth defects like, extra limbs,r extra eyes.Thursday 30th March:  Sadako Reading 

Re-tell the Sadako story based on the storyboard pictures you have drawn.   Sadako is a normal girl her grandma died because of the hiroshima bomb She practices her running so she can get into the junior athletics. When she runs she runs faster than ever When she stops she feels really dizzy but she doesn't tell anyone Finally after she had finished running she collapsed and her parents took her to the hospital. She was diagnosed with leukemia it was passed down from her family She spent weeks in the hospital Her friend Chizuko went to visit her. She gave her paper to make paper cranes She was trying to make a thousand cranes because it gave good luck She was finally able to come home but she got sick again and had to return to hospital. She hated making her mum cry because of her She met her friend kenji at the hospital but days later he died Chizuko came to visit and she brought her more paper cranes Her mum made her a kimono and gave it to her Chizuko came to visit and brought her more paper Then finally she was getting weaker and weaker She didn't have the strength to make anymore, the doctor came in and told her to rest And that night sadako died Her best friend Chizuko told everyone in the school to make paper cranes for sadako to put in her grave Eventually they made 1000 paper cranes and they buried it with sadako Her best friend Chizuko went on to make a monument for sadako and other children that have been affected by the Hiroshima bomb There is now a statue of sadako

I Learnt…. About the Hiroshima bomb About a girl who was born nine years after the bomb but still got the illness When the Hiroshima bomb exploded it caused mutation so people would be born with an extra limb or animals could have an extra eye Leukemia is a type of cancer How to make a paper crane That Chizuko was how the statue of sadako came Sadako died in 1955 USA dropped the bomb on japan People in japan light lanterns If you see a spider that is a sign of good luck

What did you enjoy most about the Sadako Reading Sessions? I enjoyed…. Learning about sadako Hearing stories of the Hiroshima bomb Predicting what will happen Making a paper crane Drawing Hearing sad stuff

What would you like to do differently when we read another  book as a whole class? What i would like to do differently is… Everyone listen A sadder book More listening and a lot more drawing More hands on activities A more interesting book More action and predicting A longer book Everyone participating