When I was teaching at the last one room school, McAuley, we had an Arbor Day celebration. We were told this day was promoted by Sterling Morton (founder of...
... J. Sterling Morton later moved to Nebraska City, Nebraska. At that time Nebraska had few trees, so he gave money to start planting some. His mansion, Arbor...
David Lininger
tss003@...
Dec 1, 2005 2:42 pm
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This really does not pertain to your situation but I'll pass it along as idle information. Many of the one room schools that were around when I began going...
dhavran@...
Dec 1, 2005 9:11 pm
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Once again this may not pertain to your situation but you are correct when you think coal played a large role in heating schools on the plains. All the ...
dhavran@...
Dec 1, 2005 9:40 pm
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Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the oneroom group. File : /Oneroom...
oneroom@yahoogroups.com
Dec 6, 2005 3:42 pm
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As I took the message to be spam, (I don't think the sender could have been the I in the message or it wouldn't have made any sense and they didn't have an ID...
I also posted the questions about heating to the ALHFAM listserv. While not definite, it sounds like a circulating heater is a stove that involves a protective...
Hi Sarah, Again, you're help is greatly appreciated. The response that started, "When I worked in the West we did a schoolhouse that had what the period...
Langs
lang@...
Dec 7, 2005 9:47 pm
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'Tis the Season. My one-room school newscrawler has pulled up several one-room school museums that put on a country school Christmas program. Does anybody do...
I thought I would comment about the one room school Christmas programs. This is just personal experience - no scientific research. My maternal grandparents...
dhavran@...
Dec 15, 2005 6:03 pm
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Re: Christmas Programs: Reading Dharvan's message sounded exactly like the programs we had in both the scool I went to in the thirtys and the one I taught in...
One-Room Schools Holding on in Rural America NPR Thu, 22 Dec 2005 7:21 AM PST One-room schools still exist in America. They are a legacy of a less mobile, more...
Does anyone know of a good company to order reproduction school supplies from (specifically reproduction wood stylus pens)? I am looking for functional repros...
Another article worth sharing. I didn't have to register to access it. Sarah S. Uthoff Winthrop author believes education hasn't outgrown one-room schoolhouses...
Interesting article-thanks, Susan. Julie lang ... From: "Susan Uthoff" <uthoff@...> To: "oneroom" <oneroom@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, December...
Langs
lang@...
Jan 12, 2006 1:41 am
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If you have a one-room school museum, do you let visitors or school groups write? Do you have slates and slate pencils? Slates and chalk? Fountain pens? Dip...
I have the children use slates and chalk, we also have slate pencils that they can use but we don't encourage that (due to the modern slate board don't erase...
I've used slates and slate pencils or chalk in outreach programing, as well as cut quills. One of the best sources I ever found for the slates and slate...
... If anyone is looking for real slates and slate pencils, we carry two sizes of slates and slate pencils on our website in the School Supplies section. Chalk...
Reminder!! Sixth Annual Country School Conference Proposals Due February 1, 2006 The Country School Association of America is hosting its 6th annual ...
Hello Everyone,I'm Phil from southwest lower Michigan,across Lake Michigan from Chicago. My interest in One-room schools stems from growing up near one. Spring...
I last attended a one room school 1945-1946. Dip pens were still in use but fountain pens were already replacing them. In our school there was very little pen...
dhavran@...
Jan 23, 2006 2:33 am
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I'm finishing up my proposal for the national conference and one of the things I'd like to address is myths of one-room schools. I've been thinking about my...
You may not consider this a myth, but it always bothered me. The contemporary literature encouraging consolidation of rural schools into graded schools said...
dhavran@...
Jan 29, 2006 9:29 pm
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Someone on another list I belong to, mentioned a restored one room school house. I emailed her for more information and she sent me the message below and gave...
I'm sending this to everyone I know. Most of you have probably heard that there is a new worm that is set to be released at midnight EST on infected...
This inter-grade teaching is actually still going on. Homeschoolers across the country have truly, in many cases, revived the educational soundness of the...
Robert Goodman
robertdgoodmanjr@...
Feb 5, 2006 12:14 am
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What do you consider to the basic books anyone interested in one-room schools should read? Sarah S. Uthoff...
America's Country Schools by Andrew Gulliford - University Press of Colorado Ringing the Children: Texas Country Schools by Thad Sitton and Milam C. Rowold ...
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