
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....

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

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

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

Student Led Conferences
"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...

Memorable Moments
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...

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

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

Taking Care of Each Other
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...

Pushing Through
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...