Check out this new logo I made for The Challenge. I love designing things like this. If I wasn’t a 4th grade teacher, I’d be a layout designer…or a YouTube movie maker…or a ninja. When I was a kid, I always wanted to be a ninja.
Click here or on the logo above to watch The Challenge’s kick-off slide show. You can use this at your school (or with your Girl Scout troop, or any group that wants to join our project), if you’d like. It’s all done and ready for you!
I can’t believe how many catalogs our school’s 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students have canceled in the last 20 days! 1000’s?
The kids are so into it. Canceling catalogs…such simple, real way to help save natural resources and energy. A way for anyone, young or not-so-young, to help the environment and to feel good about being part of the solution.
Today I become a blogger. I’m excited to use this space to share some of the “green” ideas, videos, and projects that have bubbled to the surface in my work as a 4th grade teacher at The Park School in Brookline, MA.
I’ll also post information from some other projects I’m involved in. For example, I filmed this BCAN (Boston Climate Action Network) sponsored Van Jones speech the other day. Also, the over 2,200 Step It Up rallies in 2007 were an important step in climate activism.
At my school, in my home, and as an concerned citizen, I’m someone who wants to do what I can to help the environment in its moment of need. I won’t be a bystander. I also want to help children (and their teachers) learn to value - and then care for - the natural world through concrete, hands-on environmental work and service learning. Take a look around this site to find out more. Maybe you can use some things here in your school.
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” - E. B. White
Contact email
tedwellscatablog@gmail.com