Thanks-thanks-thanks for the activity! It is really helpful and useful to understand myself.
During the week, I was thinking - about what project I want to do - I have started with my students a few Scratch projects about saving our country from the war. I’m going to start a campaign on Spreading Kindness… Now, all Ukrainians are thinking only about peace and stopping the war.
All projects are important, but I had to choose one - which is so deeply meaningful for me. And I want to share it with you now - this week I wrote a poem - at first for the last year! It followed from a story about very important feeling… So, let me tell the story in a few words.
My friend with her daughter had to leave their home in Kiev when the war started… They are very missing for their home. My friend is a designer and often expresses her feeling through pictures. She made a photo with a small paper house on the palm and wrote that she misses and afraids at the same time… afraids to lost their home…
I was wanting to help and support her… to share a ripple of kindness… and wrote a poem (as sometimes I am a writer :) And now I understood - the poem may be a start of a project that I want to make with my family and with our friends - to make a completed story about all that happened… and necessary - with happy end.
So, Im sharing a part of my friend’s photo and trying to translate my poem into English. Hoping you’ll understand what it means for us…
Let’s build a house -
Let’s make it of paper,
But there’ll be in it
All we need:
The open windows -
To breathe easily,
The tiny chimney -
To keep us warm.
Our dreams will sway
Near the attic window,
And from the open door
We’ll start our journey.
Let’s take with us
That weightless house -
And we’ll be together
always like at home!
