PROJ> [Innovative-Teachers] Butterfly Project

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From: "Kathy Eads" <kaeads@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <innovative-teachers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 19:33:06 -0600
Subject: [Innovative-Teachers] Butterfly Project
 
Yesterday, I had a life-changing experience.  I was a parent chaperone for my 
son's
8th grade field trip to the Holocaust Museum Houston.  I actually got to go 
twice
because the school took a group in the morning and a group in the afternoon. 
 Both of
my docents were phenomenal!  The morning docent's mother and maternal 
grandparents
were concentration camp survivors.  From the way he talked, he was around my 
age.  The
afternoon docent hadn't lost family members, but her husband had.  She had her 
own
stories about growing up in England as a Jew during WWII.  We had a few minutes 
at the
end of the trip where I got to talk to all 3 afternoon docents.  I found out the
museum has a project called the Butterfly Project.  They are collecting 1.5 
million
butterflies to remember the 1.5 million children who were murdered during the
Holocaust.  Once they have 1.5 million, The Galleria in Houston has agreed to 
hang the
butterflies.  Can you imagine what a statement that will make?!?!

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I want to help them collect the butterflies.  I start tomorrow working on my 
campus
with teachers to do a project where, I hope, we can get each of the students on 
our
campus to make a butterfly.  If we can, that would mean between 2500-3000 
butterflies!
If you'd like to help the Holocaust Museum Houston to reach their goal, you can 
make a
butterfly and send it to them.  As the Director of Education told me when I 
asked
about the specifications:  "No particular size or shape.  That is the beauty of 
the
project.  Every butterfly should be unique to illustrate the point that each 
child
whose life was lost was unique."

You can send your finished butterflies to:

Holocaust Museum Houston
Education Department
5401 Caroline St.
Houston, TX  77004

Please feel free to share this information with others.

Kathy
kaeads@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

The most damaging phrase in the language is: `It's always been done that way.' 
-- Rear
Admiral Grace Hopper

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