Izzy

We are silent is a fundraising event, for which we agree to be silent for 24 hours. We were not allowed to talk, although I'm sure most of us did at least once. It was a fun, frustrating, and enlightening experience. It really makes you think about all of the people worldwide who are silent. It really makes you want to stand up for all of the child labourers worldwide, who instead of going to school every day, work every day. They are forced to work up to twelve hours, most of the time with no breaks, in horrible conditions. Events like this give us a chance to put ourselves in their shoes, and make us want to really stand up for these kids and fix this problem.

Madi N

 Yesterday (April 15) My Grade did the "We Are Silent" mission project to raise awareness and donations for children who do not have a voice. (Children who don't have a say in what will happen for them now, and in the future.) The vow was to not talk for a 24 hours. If we did, anyone who saw it would put a tally on a big piece of paper. That paper was on the wall by our classroom. It was hard because if more than one person saw you speak even a single word, there would be a bunch of tallies put on the paper. There were also some people who just put tallies for the fun of it, or put more than one when they saw one of us talk. Us being frustrated about that was part of the mission project because there are many kids who would get hurt if they said anything against what they are told. My teacher told us that if we get mad about it, we should think about why we are doing this. Some girls get shot just for wanting to go to school. There are boys that are forced into a child army to fight. There are even some girls who have to marry and have children very young. We all tried really hard.
     After school was over, I had to go to dance with my friend. We gave a note to our teacher saying what we were doing. My teacher said it was a really great thing for us to do. She asked everyone who was dancing to stay silent as well to support us. It was really helpful and I managed to push through all 24 hours.

Madi B

Yesterday my class did a mission project called we are silent. We all picked a time and started our sielence. We hade to go 24 hours with out talking. We did this for the people around the world who don't have the voice. It was a bit frustrating at some points but it was fun at others. It opened up my eyes and made me realize how blessed I am to have the right to speak freely.

Adam R

yesterday, my class 6S did a vow of silence in order to raise awareness for people who don't have a right to freedom of speech. The vow lasted for a full 24 hours, from 8:00pm one night to 8:00 pm another night. 

Kiara

Yesterday the grade sixes at my school took a vow of silence. The vow of silence was to raise money and awareness with people with no voice. When you hear "no voice" you may think can't physically speak. What it actually means is people who can't speak up for themselves or what they believe in.

  This task was extremelymely hard. When you see your friends on the playground and you have been  waiting to talk to them. Or needing to tell or ask a teacher something but you have to wright it out or some kind of sign language just to tell somebody something.

  Some people decided to do complete silence which means no laughing or talking. Sometimes it would just come out because we are not adjusted to not talking for that long. I can even admitt that I accidentally spoke.

  I think that this is a very important thing to do. It shows respect and maturity.

Ambreah

Yesterday my classmates and I did the vow of silence. It was very hard to not talk when you really wanted to say something. The little kids tormented you sometimes, but you couldn't say anything. The only thing that you could do was walk away. After everything was done though, it was worth it. We knew we did it for a good reason, and to show that we support the kids who don't have a voice when no one else supports them. Now I know what these kids have to live with everyday, being silent is very hard. So I'm grateful for the rights I have for free speech, and for the people that support me.

Hunter

Yesterday our grade six class did the vow of silence to spread awareness and to raise money for charity for the people all around the world who are silent. It was difficult when you wanted to say something but you couldn't say it. Yesterday we got a little feel of how the other people around the world fell who can never say anything. It was really different from all the other days of school, there were no people answering questions with speaking they would just have to write it down on a white board, but not everyone had a white board so they were completely silent the entire time. Some people talked, but I think mostly everyone did well.

Jenna

This post is about "we are silent".We did this yesterday and it was very silent.But some people did whisper at recess.We are silent is about people being silent for people that can't have a voice. Well I think that this was a great way to do this.well my class almost did I the whole day.

Raquel's reflection for We are Silent

Yesterday my grade six class did a vow of silence. We were trying to raise awareness about people around the world who can't speak up for themselves. These people are being deprived of their basic human rights, and they need help. I think that the vow of silence was very fun to do. Yes, it was hard, but it was for a good cause. It was especially hard at youth, and I got really frustrated when I found out we were doing worship at the beginning and I couldn't sing! I am glad I had decided to start at 7:45 the previous night, so I could stop at that time during youth. It might have been really fun trying not to talk the whole time, though. Some of my youth leaders were really amazed that I could do that. They said it would be really hard for them as adults to do that. I think it was really great that we could do that for other people. Raising money for others is a good thing to do. I really enjoyed it.

Ethan

Yesterday the grade 6 classes raised money and awareness for kids who are silent. To raise money we collected pledges for donations then yesterday we were silent for 24 hours. I thought that was a good way to feel how children around the world were suffering from not having a voice. There were parts that were  really challenging like when your friends maybe from other grades can talk they ask you a question and you can't answer them. The most hardest part was when I was running canteen for lunch hour there would people asking for a juice and I couldn't answer I just had to do it. Then I knew I was being silent for a goood cause it was a lot of fun at the same time because all my friends were doing the same thing so we had support for anyone who had a hard time doing it. I could say that this was a learning experience to see how children around the world were suffering and people like us if you live in Canada or the United states we don't think about that stuff sometimes we can end up taking things for granted. So this made me think of what kids were going threw around the world and that we were very lucky to have what we have because if you think there are kids who can't even stick up for anyone or stick up for themselves because they can't have a voice that's what I learned from the vow of silence.

Lauren

Yestrday our class did a vow of silence. We did the vow of silence to raise awareness and donations for all the childern in the world who have no voice, because they are in slavery or in war. I think that my class did a pretty descent job of being silent. I only talked, maybe five times. I found that it was actully quite fun, many other people enjoyed it and found it challenging. Unfortunately some people decided to talk and not participate, so that's to bad, but over all I had a fun time and enjoyed raising awareness and donations!

Vicky

On April 15 the grades sixes took a vow of silence to raise awareness and money for people who are silent. It was a whole day where we couldn't speak to anyone or say a word. It was hard for most people, but others didn't speak at all (which was amazing). The vow of silence is a campaign for those who do not have a right to say their opinions or speak at all, the vow of silence is worldwide and many others took place in it too. You can also donate money too. 🙊#wearesilent

Mats

Yesterday grade 6 took a vow of silence to help raise awareness for kids that can't talk. It was really challenging to most of us because we would accidentally talk because we totally forgot. I did ok I accidentally talked but other then that it went well for me. It was also hard because when people were talking to us it was hard to explain something without talking. I think grade 6 did a great job of raising awareness.

Holden

Yesterday Grade 6 took a vow of silence to raise money for people who don't have the right to speak there opinion. Taking the vow of silence was hard to do because, little kids kept trying to make me talk, and talking to people is just something you could do if your bored. No many people could stay silent the whole day. We tried not to, but lots of people talked. At the end of the day we about 80 Tallis on the board, it hard very hard but I think we did good.

                                         
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Zac

Yesterday  the grade sixes at our school participated in We are Silent. We weren't supposed to talk for 24 hours to show what it's like for millions of children around the world who don't have a voice. I thought it was a challenge, when others in your grade are talking and you wanted to say be quite or something like that. I think the hardest part were all the people trying to make you talk. At the canteen we had to write everything on white boards. I felt that the people who didn't want to participate but had to that they were just whispering to each other the whole day. I am not saying I didn't talk at all yesterday because I did talk as well. It was especially hard to ask questions when teachers were giving lessons. I would do it again because thought thing that you understood  was much easier with out the talking but asking questions if you didn't know was harder. I feel more aware now of what it's like for the kids around the world without a voice

Matthew

Yesterday we could not talk. We were raising money for a charity. It was realy hard not to talk just like the people who don't have a say. So that is way we are raising money for charity so we can free the childeren. So that they can live there life's.

Brody

Yesterday grade six had a vow of silence to raise money for the children in Africa with no voice. Many younger grades donated and were silent to raise money and awareness. The goal of this project is to raise enough money for kids to have a voice and have there basic human rights.it was very hard for us because some little kids were trying to make us talk by tapping us calling us names. The grade six class made it through barely though because It was extremely hard not to talk for a whole 24 hours. But I am proud to say that we raised some money to make a child somewhere have a voice and  there basic human rights to education a voice clean water and food.

Tanner

     


         Yesterday our grade six classes were silent... We tried to stay as silent as possible for twenty four hours. It was hard. It was also quite anyoying some times because you wanted to tell you friends something or talk to them. But most importantly it taught us how the people and children feel when they don't have a voice. We also got to learn how to communicate differently. It was also quite fun to have a challenge.

Brae

yesterday my grade six class did the baw of silence to raise money who don't have the right to speak their opinions. On April 15th everyone in grade six couldn't speak throughout the whole day so we could see what it was like not to speak your opinion on something. Maybe on thing you wanted to try. that you you wanted to try. It was pretty tough because you would always be tempted to talk to your friends. But we would have to try not too talk because if some of the kids were seen talking during work they would get punished.
So we decided to see how hard you would be tempted to talk but know your not aloud.

Adam B

Yesterday our grade 6 class took a vow of silence. A vow of silence is where we don't talk for a full 24 hours to raise money/awareness for people who have no voice to speak up for what they want or believe. I think it was very hard to stay silent for a whole 24 hours. Sometimes some people talked and didn't even realize they were. I kind of felt really bad for everyone who had no voice, such as children in child labour, and young girls forced to get married and have kids, etc. Some younger kids tried to trick us into talking by annoying us and/or teasing us then they would they would go write a tally up on a board that we had for anyone who heard a grade 6 talking. I thought it was good to try something like that, it opened up my eyes to child labour and other thing like that.