Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Bobbie Kalman's Early Settler Life Series is an institution. This popular collection of books is used in schools and public libraries across the country. The hardships and the joys of the people who built this land are portrayed on every page of The Early Settler Life Series. Their experiences can enrich students' lives. By knowing who built this country, students can come to know and understand themselves and their heritage.
Synopsis
In an early community, children of all ages shared one schoolroom and one teacher for the length of their education. Take a nostalgic tour inside an early one-room school and find out how education has changed over the past two hundred years. Topics include: - chores students had to do at school - word, spelling, and arithmetic games - the first teachers - ministers, itinerant teachers, educated women - rules for students and rules for teachers - teaching morality - punishment - changing attitudes to education