Sports and Games
Punishments at School
Clothing
Family Life
In School
100
A game played by walking on 2 long pieces of wood.
What is stilts?
100
This form of punishment was only for girls. Boys didn't have the right kind of hair.
What is pegging their pigtails to the wall?
100
Girls wore them in their hair; now we use them to tie up presents.
What are ribbons?
100
The place where people met on Friday nights.
What is the General Store?
100
They entered the school first.
Who are the girls?
200
A sport that was played with curved sticks that had a mesh "basket". The basket was used to catch and throw a rubber ball.
What is lacrosse?
200
This was used to hit children across the hand.
What is the strap?
200
What girls used to cover their heads.
What are bonnets?
200
What almost all buildings were made of.
What is wood?
200
Everyone wrote on one of these with chalk.
What are slates?
300
A game played with 12 pices each, on a square board. You had to jump over your opponent's players to capture them.
What is checkers?
300
Putting your elbows on your desk? You'll have to hold up a pair of these...
What are pieces of wood?
300
Now we wear them on our heads; in pioneer times they were used to blow your nose or carry your lunch.
What are handkerchiefs?
300
This animal was used to plow the fields, pull the carts and pull the sleds.
What is a horse?
300
The place where pioneer children went to the washroom; it wasn't really "in" the school.
What is an outhouse?
400
There are 52 of them, not including jokers.
What are cards?
400
This word is still used today. It means telling on other people when you really don't need to.
What is tattling?
400
Girls didn't need them; they didn't have pants to hold up.
What are suspenders?
400
The way that most children got to school each day.
What is walking?
400
The small glass jar used to store ink.
What is an inkwell?
500
A game pioneers played where they passed a big ring back and forth on 2 sticks.
What is graces?
500
This was the only cap boys were allowed to wear inside the school.
What is a dunce cap?
500
Girls could cover this in school; boys could not.
What are heads?
500
The place where most people worked.
What is at home, on the farm?
500
The anthem that was sung every morning.
What is "God Save the Queen"?
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