Tenacre School, Wellesley, MA
Jeny Randall from Tenacre Country Day School in Wellesly, MA sent in the following post about their spring CCC. Congrats to Tenacre 1st to 6th graders for cancelings 668 catalogs!
“How many of you get catalogs at home in the mail?” The students were settling onto the floor for our morning assembly and every hand went into the air. A few students offered estimates of how many they received: 3, 10, 5 a day. “So if we have 200 families at Tenacre, how many catalogs do you think we receive as a school?” The answer is a LOT!
Over the next four weeks, students eagerly canceled catalogs at home and ran to the science room before classes started to add their catalogs to the growing pile. Children stopped me in the hallway to update me on their latest cancellations: “Ms. Randall — I canceled 3 catalogs last night! I’ll bring them in tomorrow.”
In a friendly competition, each grade had its own stack, and thus the catalogs created a living graph demonstrating which group had canceled the most. 30 days later students poured in during recess to tally each grade’s accomplishments. 600, 610, 620… excitement grew as we counted the stacks and arrived at 668, 68 catalogs above our school-wide goal of 600. For their efforts students celebrated with 668 extra seconds of recess. While a second sounds like a short amount of time and canceling one catalog seems a small act — when they worked together our students were delighted
 to discover how much it adds up!”
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