School Days
This is the type of early pioneer school. (Hint: How many rooms does it have?)
What is a one room school house?
This is how most children spent their 'free' time.
What is doing chores in the house and on the farm?
This is how most children got to school.
Pioneers spent most of their time growing and finding this.
What is food?
It is the top layer of grass and roots, held together by dirt.
What is sod?
This is how the school house was heated.
What is a wood burning stove?
This is where, and the type of toys, children got.
What is simple and handmade?
Early pioneers travelled across the mid western prairies in these.
What are covered wagons?
Besides growing food and raising animals, many pioneers got food in these other ways. (2 ways)
What is hunting and fishing?
Early pioneers did not have fridges. This is where they put their food to keep it cool.
What is a root cellar.
Pioneer day teachers could be described in this way...
What is strict and sharp tongued?
These are three examples of chores that girls/daughters had to do to help in the house.
What are: sewing, knitting, cleaning, cooking, making candles, quilting, helping with little brothers and sisters...?
When these were built, it made it possible for many settlers to travel to the prairies to start farming.
What is the railroad?
Name three crops that pioneers might have grown.
What is: wheat, oats, barley, corn...?
They were cool in summer, cozy in winter, and they were fireproof.
What were sod houses?
One of the older students at school was given this job, which had to be done first thing in the morning.
What was starting the fire in the wood stove?
This game, named after a predator and its prey, was one of the children's favourite games.
What is Fox and the Geese?
You would have a team of these to pull your heavy wagon loaded with all of your belongings.
What are oxen?
This season was the best time for pioneers to arrive at their land. Why?
The spring - it was the best time to plant a vegetable garden and plow the land.
These are indoor games that children played with their parents, such as, Pin the tail on the Donkey, board games, shadow games. Hint: the name has to do with the room where they played:-)
What are 'parlour games'.
The teacher was not usually paid with money, but sometimes was paid with this instead.
What is bags of grain or food?
(The teacher could then sell them for money)
Most children only had one pair of shoes, and often went barefoot. Sometimes they wore these, when the weather was dry.
What are moccasins? (slippers made of animal hide)
This is the type of transportation that early pioneers from Eastern Europe travelled across the Atlantic ocean on.
What is a steam ship?
If you skim the cream from the top of the cow's milk, you can churn it make this.
What is butter?
This word means to 'pay' for goods you buy, by trading your extra eggs, butter, or vegetables from your garden.
What is to barter?