The following school books are available for the cost of shipping them to you. Please let me know which ones you would be interested in, along with your...
So sorry, I forgot to paste in the list. Also, I will consider them yours on a first come basis. The New National Second Reader, Charles J. Barnes, American...
Can anyone tell me about the sschool calendar for towns in Kansas in 1882-1883? Specifically, when did the school year begin and when did it end? And what...
Hello Folks, Thanks for taking the time to read this post. I live in Three Oaks, Michigan,where we are fortunate to still have 2 one room schoolhouses still...
My husband has been very active on our Town Board and they do have powers. But it should NOT be just the Chairman who determines what gets done. I suggest you...
Some states have "grandfathered" their historical buildings so they do not have to "meet code" in all respects....of course there are items that would...
Bill Sherman asked me to forward on the following message. Sarah Uthoff From: Alice Johnson <alaskaalice@...> Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 19:12:45 -0500 To:...
No one seemed to have the answer to my previous question about school calendar, but I'm going to try a different question: Does anyone know, or know where I...
i moved my school house 40 miles when i went for the building permit i told him it was a1800s school house / shed, i was told to put that on the permit to...
I don't know how accurate the reference would be but Laura Ingalls Wilder went to school and taught in a rural school in the 1880s. You might want to check in...
Carole, Have you checked the Kansas One-Room School homepage? There is a ton of info there. Also, I used the state rural curriculum guide from the 1920s (I ...
Carol: While I can not say with absolute assurance that Kansas did not have a state-wide curriculum in the 1880s, I do know that was not the case in the early...
Thanks to all who gave me suggestions as to where to look. I'm going to track down those sources and sites. Carole Shmurak writing as Carroll Thomas The Matty...
We were talking about grants at the Iowa workshop. As the first step to getting a grant is knowing about it, I'd like to kick off a round of posts were you...
The Grant Institute's Grants 101: Professional Grant Proposal Writing Workshop will be held in Des Moines, Iowa, December 3 - 5, 2008. Interested development...
Here are some of the grants we have received to help us with building, collection, and programming projects for the Coralville School. Iowa Country School...
If you want to develop more expertise in your work as a museum educator and live within driving distance of Northern Illinois University (NIU), DeKalb,...
One of the things I've been looking for awhile now is a documented one- room school lunch basket. They were mentioned in ads, but never with an image. I have...
... one- ... Thata' a beauty. I recently purchased a lunch basket in a NH antique store and put it in our schoolhouse just last week! I will go photograph it...
In our area of the midwest, we have never found that baskets were used for kids school lunches, although they were used for about everything, and could have...
when i was taking my school apart to take it home i found this piece of chalk i did alot of reserch and found out it was mined red chalk im quite sure they...
I am new to this chat room, but I hope I can contribute and learn a lot here. Have you heard of the Towner Bus Tragedy? My mother was the Clara Smith the...
A great new mapping effort. We're looking for people to post information regarding any old one room type schoolhouses that you know of in and around New...
Let me backtrack a little, I'm not claiming that people only used baskets. In my research on school lunch I found quite a few references to the baskets, ...
Dear BB: I'm not sure if this is redundant information since I don't know what county you're from, but I just took a tour of nine schoolhouses in Burlington...
Take a look at this article (no log-in needed). Once again the old saw is raising its ugly head that you can consolidate your way out of any school problem....
Effective immediately, my new email is jandot5@.... Thank you. Jan Half, MOUSE Squad of CA (MSCA) Student Tech Program Director, www.ca.mousesquad.org ...
most older people i talked to that went to a one room school there teacher was mean,this man i was talking to said the teacher would walk past them at random...
I'm sure there were mean teachers at some time in every schoolroom, but these are often 'tales' from the children. You can believe that unless they were really...
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