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2006 Children for Peace


 

The final component of the event was Children for Peace. Children for Peace was a contest, open to all K-12 students in the counties of the Bluegrass. Participating students were asked to respond to this question: “How can you help to spread peace from your backyard to our little world?” Poems, music, plays, dances, comedy routines, sculptures, paintings or drawings, crafts, or other art forms were acceptable. For the scientifically-minded, entries could focus on solutions, concepts, plans, products, or other models of the future.

 

Judges of the entries included students and faculty involved with BCTC’s Peace and Justice Coalition: Jason Bentley (student), Itosha Dean (student), Sarah Galvin (faculty), Rebecca Glasscock (faculty), Carol Hunt (faculty), and Cynthia McCloud (student).

The criteria for judging included creativity/originality, thoughtfulness, time spent/effort, appeal, incorporation of principles of peace, and whether or not the entry responded to the question posed.

Fifty dollar prizes were awarded to the top scoring entries. All entries were awarded commemorative “rainbow” ribbons that read “Children for Peace – Peace Mover 2006.” In addition, all entries were displayed at the peace fair.

Children for Peace Entries:

 

Winning Entries:

 

Lucy Arthur-Paratley, 8th grade, Bryan Station Middle School

 

Ask the Children

 

Ask the street kids in Brazil,

the nuns in El Salvador,

the women in Iraq,

the teens in Darfur,

the men in charge,

what peace means to them.

 

You will get some truth,

some wisdom,

some hope,

some heartache,

some falsehoods.

 

What we must do, is use this to uplift

the girl in India,

the slave in China,

the woman in Sudan,

the family who works, but cannot live.

 

By bringing them up and incorporating everyone,

we will get ideas that are needed,

and ideas that work,

and solutions that help,

and plans that promote peace.

 

I ask no small favor, but please,

help the children.

 

Save us by nurturing our

livelihood,

education,

home,

planet.

We can’t do it ourselves, but we can help.

 

Ask the child in North Korea

in Israel

in Pakistan

in Iran

in Myanmar

 

What peace means to them.

 

Then act on it.

 

 

Emily Farrer, 5th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Finding Peace

 

In the morning,

I heard peace in a bird,

Chirping to the world,

Singing to friends,

And waking the world from a silent slumber.

 

In the afternoon,

I found peace in the wind,

Soaring and dancing with the flowers,

Playing with the butterfly,

And swinging with the children.

 

In the evening,

I spotted peace in the sunset,

Calling out its silent goodbye,

Welcoming the crisp moon,

And spreading its colorful arms across the sky.

 

In the night,

I stared at peace in the stars,

Twinkling “hello” from above,

Burning brightly against the dark sky,

Glowing as though talking to each other.

 

Peace stands on the world,

Shining like a star,

Blowing like the wind,

Beautiful like a sunset,

And singing like a bird.

Always forever,

Always to be,

In everything,

Every time,

For infinity.

 

 

Annie Hill, 10th grade, Henry Clay High School

 

Imagine …. A Culture of Peace

 

Adopt healthier lifestyles

 

Core values of respect for life, liberty, justice, and equity

Unity and equity is the goal of globalization

Loving acts of kindness is the pivotal role in our behavior

Tolerance, solidarity, and international understanding

Understanding and caring for the life-sustaining environment

Resolve problems through dialogue, negotiation, and

mediation

Educational systems reflect true understanding of global

problems

 

Openness to all cultures and faiths

Flexible, innovative thinkers, empathetic and aware

 

Peace begins in the home with commitment to family

values

Ecology takes precedence over economics

Achieve mutual understanding to build foundations

Children are the fuel of life, without them there is no

future; children will be environmental stewards

Eliminate fear to restore mutual trust and respect

 

Anna Winkler, 4th grade, Russell Cave Elementary

 

Peace Among Us

 

I can spread peace from my very big backyard to your little world by spreading my thoughts about peace. My thoughts about peace are it is a never ending flowing river of love and calmness that everyone can have if they try hard enough.

 

“Nani honua” in Hawaiian means beautiful world and we can have one because of peace. Sometimes in church we say “peace be with you” which means let your life be filled with peace.

 

One time three of my friends and I kept fighting so we sat down and talked about what we liked and disliked. After that we didn’t fight anymore. I think if some people would try to sit down and talk about what they liked and disliked the world would be a more peaceful place.

 

I think peace is very important because without peace among people there would be more hate and fighting in the world. I have already started to help people unite in peace. I have done this by helping to stop fights at school and talk to kids about the problems that come with fighting. Is it worth getting a bad reputation with a teacher, ending a friendship with someone else, staying for detention …

 

As you can read peace is very important to the world and all of us people because it keeps us in good spirits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honorable Mention:

 

Madeline Franklin, 5th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace

 

Whiter than the purist white.

It floats so steadily on the wings of a dove.

Flying nonchalantly through the air.

The sun touches each crevice of the earth

With its last ray of light.

The world can see though it is invisible.

The chorus is heard though nothing is played.

 

Its soft voice sounded though nothing is said.

Faith is believing you have wings.

Travel this love starved world so that

It touches every living skin.

Let it land softly on each soul and wrap

Its fingertips around the stars.

You believe because it started with you.

Though it is plain to see standing in a

Desolate place.

The world can be blind, but you help

Them see.

Let it dance on the wind that travels the

World.

Let it touch every ripple in the water.

Believe though you can not see or feel.

Have faith for the world is not

Ending, it is just the beginning.

The sun is just rising and its radiant light

Touches every living thing.

For peace is beginning with each eye

That opens, blind no more.

Every color and race stands hand in hand.

Though this may be a dream it is

Truly the beginning of a marvelous reality.

 

 

Grace Phillips, grade 5, Providence Montessori

 

Planting Peace

 

Spreading peace is like

Planting seeds,

Anyone can do it.

No matter what color,

Gender,

Good or bad,

Happy or sad

Anyone can do it.

 

Peace can grow

Slowly

And turn out

Big,

Or it can die

Right off.

 

Peace can grow

In any season,

Spring, summer,

Winter or fall.

 

Peace,

Peace,

Peace,

Spreading peace is like planting seeds,

Anyone can do it.

 

Unitarian Universalist Middle School Group, grades 6-8

 

Parachute to Senegal

 

"Parachute to Senegal"

 

The Middle School Youth Group at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Lexington provided a children's game parachute for a community in Senegal, West Africa.  The Middle Schoolers funded the parachute by encouraging people to trace their hands/write messages on the parachute in exchange for a $1 contribution.  As part of this gift, the Middle School Youth Group also creating a booklet of parachute game instructions, translated into French, and illustrations to send with the Parachute.  The booklet of parachute games was the entry for the Children for Peace contest.

 

UUCL Middle School Youth Group

Alex Petros, Ali Weber, Archer Newell, Cameo Kendrick, Candace Kendrick, Emily Tincher, Hannah Johnson, Indigo Jackson, Jack Jaquish, Kelsey Weber,  Laura Jaquish,

Marjorie Amon, Miles Conger, Raisa Tikhtman, Rheannon Carpenter, Zebulun Baukhagen.

 

Victor Yang, 10th grade, Dunbar High School

 

From Our Hearts … To the World

 

Peace is a wispy, fleeting fairy

A creature to be admired, dreamed of

A vision to us all.

 

But peace is not born

From the airy words of United Nations conferences

Or the macho guns of military men

 

Instead, please sprouts like a sweetly shy touch-me-not

From the sunny words of uplifting friends

Or a beaming flash of a stranger’s mouth

 

And peace can be anyone’s priceless gift

A carefully warm embrace for a sobbing soul

A soothingly bright consolement to a pal in blues

 

Expel a little fairy and let it

Frolic in someone else’s spirit.

Give a pair of its fragile but powerful

Wings, to fly from your heart

And blossom into the world.

 

 

 

 

Peace Movers 2006

 

Sammy Jo Armato, 3rd grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace

 

Peace is special to you and me,

It starts at the top,

And goes down,

You see.

 

Peace is you,

Peace is me,

Peace comes from the heavens,

And climbs down to a tree.

 

 

 

 

 

Isabelle Ballard, 5th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Without Peace

 

Peace, is love and understanding which

Becomes friendship and joy,

But when people forget about peace

They become empty with no soul

They do not even love or understand

Themselves, then they have no friends or joy

So you see we need friends, joy,

Understanding, and love which

Together make peace

And without peace

We would live in a soulless empty world.

 

 

 

 

 

Ian Baughman, 5th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace

 

Peace is love, happiness and hope for the oppressed. The only way to help the oppressed is to restore peace in a peaceful way to the world.

 

Cameron Croney-Clark, 5th grade, Providence Montessori

 

We can find peace

 

There’s peace in your body.

There’s peace in the world. Nobody can see peace, but it’s here. Somewhere if we stop war, stop drugs, stop killers, but most of all find peace.

 

Maddie Farrer, 3rd grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace

 

Peace is a poem, written by love.

Peace is a letter, sent by a dove.

 

Peace is a dream, we can’t always grasp.

Peace is life, that should always last.

 

Peace is an angel, watching over me.

Peace is a wonder, sitting high in a tree.

 

Peace is a thought, in your head.

Peace is a mother, tucking you in bed.

 

Peace is friendship, giving you all it can.

Peace is a wave, crashing on the sand.

 

Peace is helping, helping hand in hand,

To protect our earth,

To protect our land.

 

 

 

Edward Freeman, 4th grade, Providence Montessori

 

The Beautiful Dove

 

If the sun shines on the beautiful dove that carries peace around the world, there are no crimes or war. If the sun doesn’t shine on the beautiful dove that carries peace around the world, there are crimes and wars.

 

Kenneth Freeman, 6th grade, Providence Montessori

 

            Two Different Worlds

 

Two different worlds

One out of its mind

One being respectful

 

Evil

Violence

A dark heart

Murder and bad language

Some people are born in this world.

 

Peace

Love and caring with compassion

Have sympathy for others and being mindful,

Respectful with a light heart.

Some people are born in this world.

 

Mary Freeman, 5th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Spreading Peace

 

A dove gracefully flies,

It holds peace upon its wings,

And carries it around the world.

 

 

 

 

 

Drew Howard, 3rd grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace

 

Peace is a dove ready to fly,

The fire in your soul bursting with love.

Peace is the happiness resting in your heart,

The food we eat and rejoice for.

Peace is the river rolling so far,

The path winding to a fork.

Peace is the flower blooming with aroma,

The end of the long long road.

 

Ethan Hughes, 6th grade, Providence Montessori

 

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Peace, love, care,

Meditation, minding, happiness.

Peace is everything in life

Self control, belief, trust,

Concentration, determination.

Peace out!

 

Katherine Ison, 4th grade, Providence Montessori

 

There Needs to be Peace in the World

 

There needs to be more democrats in the world so we can help the world. We should be like the Native Americans. We won’t make factories, because if we have factories the smoke will go up in the air and into the rain clouds and make acid rain. Animals drink the rain, then they die. There needs to be more policemen to capture all the villains, even the kid villains. There needs to be peace in the world!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trey Kuhn, 4th grade, Providence Montessori

 

The P.E.A.C.E. Poem

 

Peace

Earth

Animals

Calm

Everlasting

 

Andrew LaSheen, 4th grade, Providence Montessori

 

More Peace

 

Stop crime. Stop war. Lay down. Take a rest. Less drinking. No pollution. Let there be peace on earth.

 

 

 

 

Bronston Lynn, 6th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace is like a …

 

Peace is like a tree blowing in the wind.

Peace is like a stream flowing through the rocks.

Peace is like a baby playing.

Peace is like a circle that never ends.

Peace will never end.

 

Chandler Lynn, 5th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Let there be peace

 

This is a sign of happiness, and concentration. People should be loving and caring, not hate and anger. We can make a difference in the world if we control ourselves.

 

 

 

 

Sarah MacDonald, 4th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace

 

Peace is what this world needs. Why can’t unpeaceful places be peaceful places? It would be better for you the world, and everything else. Why do animals run from us? The answer to that is to not eat or kill them. They might not run from us. Vegetarians are animals’ best friends.

 

Mallory McCain, 3rd grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace starts with me

 

Peace is like love,

Floating in the air.

To find peace,

You have to care.

 

A dove flying high in the

Sky knows that

Peace can be free.

Over the hills and back to me.

 

Mallory McCain, 3rd grade, Providence Montessori

 

The Wind’s Message

 

When the wind blows,

It whispers to the earth,

“Peace within you,

And give peace to all.”

 

Joseph Natter, 5th grade, Providence Montessori

 

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Please let fighting cease,

So that we can all have peace,

And the world will not decrease.

Let the war end.

So that we can all be friends,

Be nice to our chickens and our hens,

Be nice to all Earth.

Be nice to all things.

Let it happen.

If this happens we will all be glad.

No one on Earth will ever be sad.

Please let this happen,

Please let this happen,

Please let this happen.

 

Anthony O’Nan, 6th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace

 

I see peace in a different way than most people. To me world peace is not all countries dropping their weapons, for as long as humans show emotions like love, hate, and lust there will be killing. Instead I see peace as something within the deepest parts of the mind, and world peace a time when all people realize and look into that section. I see peace as the hope in Pandora’s Box and as long as one person knows that peace is there, it will always exist.

 

Emma Pederson, 3rd grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace

 

Spreading peace is fun you see,

For the world,

You and me!

 

Peace is kind and graceful

You can see –

Unlike a flea,

Or a bee –

YIPEE!

 

Grace Phillips, 5th grade, Providence Montessori

 

            Peace

 

People everywhere holding

Hands and loving.

Everyone hugging.

All over – every mile!

Covers up wars, fights, and

Blood.

Everyone can start peace

And it can also be lost.

 

Grace Phillips, 5th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Tenth Street

 

“Will you give me some money, please?” He asked

To every person going by

Left to right

And in every direction.

 

He sat down and stopped to sleep

And then when he woke up

He asked a woman for ten dollars.

Then the woman stopped.

She said “Why do you need the money, sir?”

He replied and said

“For a Peace dove to fly and spread Peace around the world.”

Then the woman gave him the money

And after she walked away

He got up and bought that Peace dove that very day.

The dove was white, very healthy and very active.

When he let the dove go off he had made a wish

For “Peace around the World.”

After, many years went by ….

The man died with the Peace dove still flying.

No sign of new Peace, even though the Peace was still within him.

 

The day after his death, amazingly, there was new Peace.

Where there was no water and people were fighting and killing,

There was more rushing water and Peace.

Where there were wars, the wars stopped.

Then there was Peace.

Where there was fighting with brothers, sisters, parents and family

The family was over and then there was Peace. And Love.

 

Grandi Ray, 4th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Why Can’t the World Have Peace?

 

There’s a lot of peace. There’s peace in your heart, in the air. There’s peace in you. Why can’t everyone stop thugs, stop terrorists? Stop drugs, stop murders, stop suicides, but most importantly, stop wars. There is peace in everyone deep in their hearts.

 

Maura Reilly, 5th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace

 

Peace is a mother’s love,

A father’s pride,

And a child’s wish.

 

Peace is helping others

Who need help.

Peace is Ann Sullivan

Helping Helen Keller.

 

Peace is simple.

Peace can mean simply

Cleaning your cat’s litter box.

 

Peace is love.

 

Maria Sawaya, 6th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace

 

Peace, a word that’s calming and soothing to me.

Peace, a word full of joy and fairness to me.

Peace, a word that shows how much you care about the earth to me.

Peace, a word that has no war or harmness in others to me.

Peace, a word that should be inside of you to me.

Peace, a word is honest and sweet to me.

Peace, a word that is tranquil and loving to me.

Peace, a word full of happiness and care to me.

Peace, a word that would really make a difference in the world.

 

Rupal Shah, 4th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Everything and everybody can’t live without peace. The world is made out of peace. Lots of people decide to be peaceful except people who go to war. Everybody has peace inside of them, but sometimes they chose not to show it. How can we help them? Peace.

 

Henry Stephens, 6th grade, Providence Montessori

 

            Peace is What Makes the World a Happy Place

 

Peace is what makes the world a happy place

If there is no peace,

The world would be a disaster

There would be no love or happiness

There would only be hate.

Terrorists, serial killers

I wish they could all love instead of hate.

They all need peace.

 

Graham Turnbow, 4th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Peace

 

We could have peace on earth if everybody was kind and didn’t drink or do drugs. Our world is becoming a different place. Everyone should love the earth!!

 

Elizabeth Vincelli, 6th grade, Providence Montessori

 

The Ocean Lilly

 

Softly waving, shifting, singing, this is the ocean lilly. Moving from place to place. Shining, spying, I am not lying, this is the ocean lilly. At every stop you make, you bring peace on the way. When you shine they fill with rhyme, while you watch waves crash on the beach. Your hair flowing and growing softly as you speak, your hands gently touch the sand as you think, think of peace my friend. Softly waving, shifting, singing, this is the ocean lilly. Moving, shining, spying, I am not lying, this is the ocean lilly.

 

 

William Wester, 4th grade, Providence Montessori

 

Thoughts come first

 

So many wars, so many murders. Why can’t we stop this? We can’t stop this because of human emotions. If we can stop this the world would be a better place. If peace was our first thought, maybe this could happen.

 

If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children. - Mohandas Gandhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Children for Peace

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Our Little World: The First Annual Lexington Peace Fair