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RIVERTON ELEMENTARY SIXTH GRADERS SPREAD MESSAGES OF HOPE
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By Morgan Olsen | m.olsen@mycityjournals.com
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ixth graders at Riverton Elementary are spreading the power of hope and positivity to their school and community through their recent Tree of Hope project. “My sixth-grade students wrote and illustrated a picture book about the power of hope,” said Riverton Elementary sixth grade teacher Cassie Crandell. “In the book they personify the true stories of five survivor trees. Through telling these tree’s stories, they touch on anxiety, depression, loss of family, the fear of going through something unexpected as a child and the need for help from others. All of the stories end on a note of hope and resilience.” Crandell’s idea for the project stemmed from her experience visiting the 9/11 memorial in New York City several years ago. She found the survivor tree at the memorial fascinating and wanted to teach her sixth-grade students about its significance, along with the importance of other survivor trees throughout the world, through this Tree of Hope project. “A long time ago I visited the 9/11 memorial and they have the survivor tree there,” said Crandell. “I remember taking a picture of it and felt a connection with a tree that had survived so many things.” This experience led Crandell to research different survivor trees throughout the world, and these trees became the subjects of the project. “I did a Google search to find some of these trees and found a mural we could create and proposed it to my students,” said Crandell. “They loved it and took it from there. I guided Continued page 9
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Cassie Crandell and her sixth grade class who worked on the Tree of Hope project. (Morgan Olsen/City Journals)
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