Friday, October 2 started with a quick rain shower, and for a few minutes it looked like we might be moving the fair indoors. Then the clouds broke, the sun came out, and a rainbow showed up over the field just as families were arriving. We’ll take it.

The Country Fair has been part of Cobb for nearly three decades, and it still works the way it always has. Children choose where to go and what to make. This year’s tables were stocked with seeds, lavender, oranges, pumpkins, corn, twigs, and paint. A toddler might spend twenty minutes at one station while an older sibling makes the rounds of all of them. Nobody hurries anyone along.

That’s not an accident. It’s the same thinking that shapes a Montessori classroom. Give children good materials and the freedom to choose, and they settle into real work, even at a party.

A few highlights from this year:

• A new addition: a Mexican food truck joined us for the first time, and the line said it all.
• Live music from Cobb alum Camden Fuller, who graduated from our Upper Elementary in 2018.
• An old favorite: making orange spice balls with Mrs. Gallagher. Some of our older students remember making their first one as Primary children, and plenty of houses smelled like oranges and spice that weekend.

None of this happens without a lot of help. Thank you to our incredible Parent Association for making the fair possible, to our amazing parent volunteers who ran tables, set up, and cleaned up, and to our wonderful staff, who gave up a Friday afternoon to celebrate with us.

To the families who came for the first time: we’re so glad you joined us. If the afternoon gave you a sense of what Cobb feels like, we’d love to show you the classrooms too. Take a tour

See you next October.