Origami with Mrs. Goodman

Fold an Origami Elephant helps bring awareness to the fact that 35,000 African elephants are killed each year for their tusks.  Ms. Goodman and boys and girls in our classes and from all over the country are hoping to break the Guinness Worlds Record for most origami elephants displayed (current record is 33,764).  

If you want to learn more about the challenge, click here to go to the Wildlife Conservation Website.


We are studying sequence in a story, here is what we did first, then, next, and last for this project:

First, Ms. Goodman read the book, Let's Save the Animals, by Frances Barry.







Then we made the origami elephants in a small group,

Next we shared the elephants with our class.

Last we created a circle map that charted why saving endangered elephants, and other endangered animals is important.

Here are the kids with their elephants!