PHOTO GALLERY: Bentley Students Send Origami to Japan

• Courtesy of the New Lenox School District 122:

The Caroline Bentley Origami Club, led by sixth-grade teacher Jen Ruhl, completed some fun activities. Each week, the students learned how to fold a new origami.  Their masterpieces included swans, frogs, stars and boxes, to name a few. 

To wrap up the club's activities for the year, Origami Club members folded more than 250 paper cranes to send to Peace Park in Hiroshima, Japan.

While they folded, the students learned the story of Sadako, a child who dies from leukemia after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and who believed she would get well if she could fold over 1,000 paper cranes. The crane's were went from Caroline Bentley School in New Lenox to Peace Park in Japan and are on display at the Children's Peace Monument.