TEACHERS' BLOG | Country Classroom

Ending a Year

The end of year is a special time, and we try to balance our desire for celebrations with a need to stick to some semblance of routine....

We made our annual pilgrimage to Middleburgh's Pollinator Garden this last week with two flats of zinnias in hand. The children started...

When I was in graduate school, we had extended conversations about breadth versus depth in education. Do you try to give kids a sampling...

I got to represent Country Classroom at Fourth Friday in Middleburgh last week. The kids helped me gather rocks from our stream and wash...

"Wow! We filled up the whole board, and there's more that we couldn't even fit!" My math class was admiring their list of topics we had...

Teaching is full of rewarding moments, and it helps to feed those of us that are teachers. With the mild weather, we are now outside for...

We did our best to bring in the spring with our Maypole dancing this week. At Timothy Murphy Park, our students skipped, marched, and...

We do not have our students do standardized tests every year. Instead, we rely on a combination of observation, formal and informal...

Some of our older kids really wanted to organize an egg hunt at school, so they put the call out for plastic eggs and things we could put...

This past week most of our students were working on finishing pieces for our upcoming publishing party. As teachers, it's always a bit of...

Each week, Country Classroom Head Teacher Tracy writes an email to our parents. Many of those emails we publish here.