Was prepared by older students as a chore. It was used to heat up the one room schoolhouse and children would cook potatoes on top for students to eat at lunch time.
What is a potbellied stove?
100
Straps that boys wear to keep their pants up and around their waste.
What are suspenders?
100
A toy that girls would make and play with made of corn husks.
What is a corn husk doll?
100
Girls were typically beside their mothers doing this chore.
What are household chores?
200
A hat that children wear in school as a form of punishment.
What is a dunce cap?
200
This was performed by girls to show respect to their teacher.
What is curtsying?
200
A type of hat that girls wear to keep their hair out of their face so that they can do chores. It is also worn in the sun to protect their head.
What is a bonnet?
200
A toy that both boys and girls would make made of string and a button.
What is a whizzing whirligig?
200
Boys typically started doing this with their fathers at age 7.
What is working in the fields and learning to farm?
300
A phrase that is used to describe the lifestyle of children in the 19th century.
What are little adults?
300
This was performed by boys to show respect to their teacher.
What is bowing?
300
A cotton piece of clothing with a colar that boys wear.
What is a shirt?
300
A toy that children would play with made of wood and ribbon.
What is Jacob's Ladder?
300
They helped care for the young as well as helping with other responsibilities.
What are older children?
400
Something that does not change.
What is continuity?
400
Teachers would explain the lesson here and then the students would go to their own desk to complete the work. Students would have to memorize instructions and go off and work independently.
What is a recitation bench?
400
A type of apron that girls wear over their dress or petticoat.
What is a pinafore?
400
A game children would play that involves catching a ball in a cup.
What is Cup and Ball?
400
Very little time was spent doing this.
What is play?
500
This is what kids do a lot before and after school to help their parents.
What are chores?
500
A place where there are 8 grades in one room.
What is a one-room school house?
500
Girls wear dresses and boys wear pants and a cotton shirt.
What is the difference between girls and boys clothing?
500
Children have very little of this when it comes to play.
What is time?
500
The difference between these two groups is clear and what seems like non-interchangeable.
What is the difference between men and women, and boys and girls?