Remembering the Future

8 Remembering the Future What would you want to tell kids from the future if you had the chance? That's the situation my classmates and I faced today. You see, our school is old. It will be torn down at the end of this year. Next fall, we will move into a brand new school. Our teacher told us that we could put a “ time capsule" together. What's a time capsule? It's a box in which you put things you think will be of interest to people in the future. When the workers start to build our new school, they will bury our time capsule inside the stone wall. In a hundred years, someone will find it. So, what to put in it? That was the question we talked about today. Someone suggested that we put in a CD with popular music of the day. That's a good idea. That way, the future generation will know what kids like us enjoyed listening to. Someone else suggested leaving a copy of the day's newspaper. I agree with that too. Why? It will show what was going on in our world on the day we filled our time capsule. There were many other good suggestions. A favourite book. Pictures of our old school. Pictures of us.

I suggested that we all write a short letter. In the letter, we would describe what we think the future will be like-using our imagination! Everyone agreed with me. They thought it was a great idea. Imagine what kids in the futurewill think of us! They will be able to judge if what we said is right or wrong. Everyone was excited. It made us think about life in the future. It made us wonder what kids will be like in one hundred years. I can just imagine those kids in the future reaching into our time capsule. It makes me happy to think about that. What would you put in a time capsule if you were making one?