Historic Communities
11 total works
This newly revised edition describes how teachers in early schools often had limited supplies with which to teach the students. Classroom Games describes the fun and creative activities that teachers employed to teach students good behavior as well as the three R’s. Explore games that made learning fun involving: spelling and creative writing; arithmetic; geography, history, and art; music; holidays; and scavenger hunts.
This newly revised edition takes readers into a Colonial Home of the 1600s and 1700s. See inside the kitchen, the fireplace, the bedchamber and the barn. Learn why immigrants from England, France, and Spain were drawn to North America, and how plantations in the South grew and prospered through the slave trade.
In this newly revised edition of The Gristmill, young readers will discover that people would travel from far and wide to visit the gristmill for the essential service of having their grain ground. Find out how the miller produced flour, the staple of life, as well as what jobs the miller did, what made the grinding stones turn, and how wheat becomes bread.
This newly revised edition describes how children in an early community were expected to help out with chores at home and had little time to play. But recess time at school gave children the opportunity to play Schoolyard Games. Colorful illustrations help explain early versions of: skipping, hopscotch, and clapping games; string and hoop games; group games, hiding games, and ball games; and marbles, tops, and other toys.
This newly revised edition describes how the kitchen was the center of family activity in the old days. Here families ate their meals, played games, and told stories with only the fireplace and a few candles for warmth and light. In The Kitchen, young readers will take a close look at the early fireplace and the tools and utensils surrounding it. Domestic chores carried out in the kitchen are described including: baking bread, making butter, preserving food and washing clothes.
This newly revised edition of Visiting a Village is an ideal introduction to understanding the concept of community. Children will learn how the people in early communities worked together with a spirit of cooperation by trading their goods and services with each other. Knowing about what they might see on their first visit to an historic site will help spark a child’s curiosity.In this book, they will meet such individuals as: the miller, the sawyer, the storekeeper, and the metal and woodworkers.