{"id":3328,"date":"2007-09-24T13:37:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T17:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/v3\/?p=3328"},"modified":"2008-09-05T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T17:40:18","slug":"taes-2nd-graders-participate-in-%e2%80%98pinwheels-for-peace%e2%80%99-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/?p=3328","title":{"rendered":"TAES 2nd graders participate in \u2018Pinwheels for Peace\u2019 project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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Say \u2018peace\u2019!
\nMr. Jim Koller\u2019s smiling second grade class posed for a photo while they were outside Friday morning participating in a worldwide event called \u201cPinwheels for Peace\u201d. All the second grade classes at TAES participated in the project with elementary art teacher Mrs. Ann Yaniello. (The Daily Herald\/Kris Yaniello)<\/td>\n		Planting their pinwheels<\/p>\n

Pictured here is a group of second graders from Mr. Koller\u2019s class at TAES. These young ladies are all smiles after completing their \u201cPinwheels for Peace\u201d project in Mrs. Yaniello\u2019s art class. (The Daily Herald\/Kris Yaniello)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

In today\u2019s world, peace needs to become more than just a word. On September 21, 2007, Tyrone Area Elementary School second graders took part in an international art and literacy project, Pinwheels for Peace, by \u201cplanting\u201d pinwheels with messages of peace in front of the TAES building\u2019s entrance.
\nPinwheels for Peace is an art installation project started in 2005 by two art teachers, Ann Ayers and Ellen McMillan, of Coconut Creek, Florida, as a way for students to express their feelings about what\u2019s going on in the world and in their lives. In 2005, groups in over 1,325 locations throughout the world were spinning pinwheels on September 21 – there were approximately 500,000 pinwheels spinning throughout the world.
\nLast year, 2006, over one million pinwheels were spinning in over 2,350 locations, including the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, Africa and South America.
\nLocally, Mrs. Ann Yaniello, elementary art teacher, coordinated the Pinwheels for Peace project this year for the second grade classes of Mr. Jim Koller, Mrs. Marcie Stager, Mrs. Jennifer Rhoades, Mrs. Amy Fleck, Mrs. Leslie Hasson and Mrs. Barb Elder at TAES.
\nThis project is non-political – peace doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be associated with the conflict of war, it can be related to violence\/intolerance in our daily lives, to peace of mind. To each of us, peace can take on a different meaning, but, in the end, it all comes down to a simple definition: \u201ca state of calm and serenity, with no anxiety, the absence of violence, freedom from conflict or disagreement among people or groups of people.\u201d
\nTAES second grade classes created pinwheels – as part of the creation process, the students wrote their thoughts about \u201cwar and peace\/tolerance\/living in harmony with others\u201d on one side. On the other side, they drew or designed those thoughts to visually express their feelings. The students assembled these pinwheels, and on Friday\u2019s International Day of Peace they \u201cplanted\u201d their pinwheels in the school\u2019s front lawn as a public statement and art exhibit\/installation.
\nThe second grade students showed their excitement about the project as they were outside placing their pinwheels in the ground. The kids were smiling from ear to ear and chanting their elation of \u201cpeace\u201d over and over again. It was truly a wonderful sight to watch young children exuberant about the message of peace.
\nElementary art teacher Ann Yaniello stated, \u201cThe kids had so much fun doing the project, and we\u2019re happy about being a part of this national and worldwide event. We hope to be able to keep doing the Pinwheel for Peace project every year.\u201d
\nImagine \u201cwhirled peace.\u201d It was created by TAES students and others all around the world on September 21 – the spinning of the pinwheels in the wind spread thoughts and feelings about peace throughout the country and the world, and our children were at the forefront.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Say \u2018peace\u2019! Mr. Jim Koller\u2019s smiling second grade class posed for a photo while they were outside Friday morning participating in a worldwide event called \u201cPinwheels for Peace\u201d. All the second grade classes at TAES participated in the project with elementary art teacher Mrs. Ann Yaniello. (The Daily Herald\/Kris Yaniello) Planting their pinwheels Pictured here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area","category-excerpts-from-the-tyrone-daily-herald"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}