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late in the fall and i thought we could go owling just like in the book we did parents loved it and we heard an owl answer back this was the first nighttime event anyone had done at school can you imagine being close to the woods at night at school calling for owls i wrote a blog post about going owling jane read the post and replied in the end of course fame and fortune don t matter it s the child remembering your story with great fondness that is important only that jane was a presenter at the eric carle museum years later hearing her speak was just wonderful better yet her daughter was also speaking and when she talked about owl moon i blurted out it was you you were the little girl in the book she smiled the audience did too after the presentation i had a chance to meet and talk with jane yolen i told her all about going owling with my class after reading her book oh we talked and talked everyone in line to meet her was fascinated i m a huge fan of jane yolen s how do dinosaurs books i think i ve read every one and i often give a stuffed dinosaur along with the book as a gift i can t say enough about the dinosaur books they are in rhyme and perfect for 3 8 year olds great writers say important words jane yolen said writers have ideas it s what they do with them that counts we need teachers to turn on the lights for us it s hard to read and write in the dark the author isn t important their writing is don t write down to children they will know and remember the words last year i was invited to jane s birthday party lucky me here s the best part a child in my class who went owling came along to the birthday party we were there a little early so i dragged this shy child now an adult up to meet jane yolen she was scared i was not jane remembered the story of going owling and there she was meeting one of the owling chldren it was a full circle moment rest in peace jane you have made a difference jennie posted in books children s books death and dying early education eric carle museum giving thanks heart inspiration joy literacy picture books preschool reading reading aloud teaching young children tagged how do dinosaurs jane yolen owl moon remembering jane yolen 62 comments our wish tree at the library posted on june 13 2026 by jennie after reading wishtree to my library group i knew i had to do more when a really good book sticks with children and they re not ready to let go it s up to me to make something meaningful happen i can t leave children hanging the library has a beautiful red maple tree by their entrance we could write wishes and hang them on the tree the children loved this idea and so we wrote wishes this is my favorite from gaia i wish all people would get together the library loves the wish tree they are planning on adding this to their summer program having children write wishes to adorn the tree isn t that wonderful i never had a chance as a child to write a wish much less hang it on a tree we always wrote what we were thankful for and children still do that today while that is wonderful opening the world to wishes can take thankfulness to a new deeper level jennie posted in book review books chapter reading children s books community expressing words and feelings heart inspiration library literacy teaching young children wonder writing tagged wish tree wish tree at the library wishtree by katherine applegate writing wishes and hanging them on a tree 82 comments jennie the schoolmarm posted on june 7 2026 by jennie i get to bring history alive for third graders in town this year one of the children who remembered me many do came up to me after the event first she hugged me and told me she missed me then she had a worried look on her face and asked so jennie is this what you do now are you still teaching brooke i do this but i m still teaching brooke said a very loud whew here is my post about jennie the schoolmarm i hope you enjoy reading it as much as i enjoyed writing it every year third graders in groton massachusetts take a field trip to the old one room schoolhouse the sawtelle school it s living history and that s just how children should learn history i get to be their teacher lucky me groton is an old new england town settled in 1655 the schoolhouse dates from the late 1700 s and was in continuous use as a one room schoolhouse until 1916 it served as a school for nearly 125 years and is on the national register of historic places in 1833 it was converted from wood to brick that s the year in which i am the schoolmarm and where this story begins i ring the big brass bell to call the scholars to school in 1833 children who attended school were scholars not students welcome scholars this is the old schoolhouse in groton before i had a chance to say any more a few children recognized me and broke the line to run forward and give me a hug let s look at the outside before we go inside i showed children the well yes the real well is still there the only source of water at school i asked plenty of questions to get them thinking how do you get the water out of the well how do you drink the water what else was water used for next i said there were no toilets do you want to see where you had to pee and poo of course they did taking children to the outhouses was fun i told them with great animation what it was like in an outhouse there is a thick long board with a hole in the middle you sit on the hole and do your business no toilet paper silence and wide eyes school was summer and winter because spring and fall were farm work months you d be working all day so imagine winter here by the outhouse it took you forever just to walk out here the outhouse was a great bonding experience they knew i wasn t a stuffy boring old lady they knew i liked them they knew i was excited about being their teacher i took the children inside the school the desks not original were lined up and children rushed to get a desk i watched them they rubbed their hands over the surface moved about and thought yes they thought i knew they were soaking it all in the way children do when you look around you see there are no electrical lights and no heaters light came from this oil lamp i am holding heat came from this wood burning stove imagine fetching wood from outside in the winter to heat the schoolhouse so your fingers wouldn t be stiff from cold and you could write on your slate paper was expensive and scarce so you wouldn t have that in school i let those thoughts sink in then i showed children artifacts from the school a quill pen and inkwell a water dipper a dinner pail dinner was eaten at our lunchtime and supper was eaten at our dinnertime we talked about farming hard work and how it was a privilege to go to school on the wall at the old schoolhouse is a life size photo of eva belle torrey who was a scholar at the school alongside are excerpts from her diary i called the children s attention to eva her decedents keep in touch and support the sawtelle school association i read aloud eva s three diary entries each started with the weather and how many scholars were at school when she was 11 her friend died when she was 12 she was going to study physiology physical geography and botany this term in the place of history common geography and language you could have heard a pin drop it was time to start school we stood to say the pledge of allegiance did children know the pledge did they recite it daily i wasn t sure but then then we were ready to sing the national anthem but there was no national anthem in 1833 back then children sang my country tis of thee i told the children how i called my mother in disbelief when i learned america didn t have a national anthem until 1931 i held a pretend phone to my ear and said to children mother please tell me it isn t true please tell me we had a national anthem when you were a little girl no jennie it s true what did you sing my country tis of thee and so it was these children stood up and to my great surprise they belted out the song it made me proud i told children the strict rules in school in 1833 i told them about the forms of discipline with great fanfare paddling oh there was a paddle from the schoolhouse my jennie story of teacher paddling at my elementary school was a shock bending over to touch a spot on the floor and staying there for a long time i called upon a teacher in the group of third graders to be the victim and of course the children loved it wearing a dunce cap i called upon a scholar to come sit on the tall stool in the corner and wear the dunce cap very popular wedging a block of wood in the mouth for whispering pegging girl s braids onto hooks everyone was pretty shocked at this one girls who had long hair and braids instinctively covered their heads boys wearing a pink bonnet for teasing everyone thought this was funny children copied a poem good better best onto their slates that was not easy to do when everyone finished we recited the poem aloud together poetry reciting reading and reading aloud were all key elements in what children did at school isn t that wonderful next every child had a reader the book that was used in 1833 children took turns standing in front of the class and reading aloud the story oh it was a great story about a boy who found a bear cub and brought it to school next came arithmetic a few of the third graders knew that arithmetic is math i wrote problems on the chalkboard and children wrote answers on their slates they could do addition and subtraction in the thousands mental arithmetic was next and it s always tougher i told a story of a boy who had to collect firewood for the schoolhouse how many pieces he collected dropped and so on children wrote the answers on their slates last on the agenda was singing a song from that era i taught children she ll be comin round the mountain oh my goodness they loved it finally children asked questions what happened if you got sick if you got hurt how would you get to a doctor how would they get in touch with your mom or dad a few days after being the schoolmarm i received two thank you notes from children who were there as scholars what a wonderful surprise teaching history is important children need to know about the past in order to become good citizens in the future jennie posted in america early education history school singing student alumni teaching young children tagged 1833 going to school in 1833 jennie the schoolmarm my country tis of thee she ll be comin round the mountain 80 comments childhood anxiety is real posted on june 1 2026 by jennie out of the blue a former aqua roomer popped in to visit it was lizzie lizzie visiting in 2018 my goodness it was so good to see her lizzie is now hadrian a they but with the same smile and bright eyes hadrian is in college studying mathematics and engineering after a gigantic hug i put both hands on their cheeks and smiled like i was catching up on nearly 10 years of lost smiles well i was they cried and laughed i did too hadrian and i are with terri the other teacher he remembers well we reminisced hadrian wanted to talk about summer camp and the playground so many thing kept coming up and the more they talked the more they remembered of course i kept those fires burning hadrian needed this i could tell hadrian remembered gloria and asked if she was still around the conversation went something like this jennie is gloria still around yes are you ready for this she has just come back from england no way yes she s as wonderful today as she was with you long pause hadrian would you like to take gloria home for the weekend they didn t know what to say but their eyes and smile said it all so we went to the classroom to greet gloria hadrian was fascinated with her journal and asked where are her first two journals i said they re at my house can i read them i said of course i ll bring them to school on monday so hadrian a former aqua roomer as lizzie has anxiety and issues they wanted to spend the weekend with gloria somehow i think she will bring much needed comfort everyone has anxiety everyone needs comfort gloria can help jennie posted in diversity expressing words and feelings gloria inspiration love school student alumni teaching young children tagged becoming a they childhood anxiety former students visiting gloria 61 comments older posts search for recent posts happy birthday america now and then surviving the new england heatwave milly the quilter story part 4 milly the quilter story part 3 milly the quilter story part 2 recent comments beth on happy birthday america now teagan riordain gene on happy birthday america now willedare on happy birthday america now jennie on happy birthday america now jennie on happy birthday america now archives july 2026 june 2026 may 2026 april 2026 march 2026 february 2026 january 2026 december 2025 november 2025 october 2025 september 2025 august 2025 july 2025 june 2025 may 2025 april 2025 march 2025 february 2025 january 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