School and Students during the 1860's in Colombia State Park

What is a privy?

• another name for a brick

• a bathroom

• a play space

• a closet

True or False: Boys and girls could play together in the same space.

• true

• false

If you were a teacher of the older kids, you entered the school from the ______ floor.

• first

• second

There are three rules that the students had to follow back then but not anymore. They are...

• Students were not allowed to throw anything in the classroom.

• Students were not allowed to wear hats.

• Students had to appear clean.

• Students' ears and necks were checked each morning for cleanliness.

• Students could not chew gum or spit it out.

Teachers had to sharpen _____ instead of pencils each morning.

• wood

• pencils

• feather pens

Teachers had to bring in a big bucket of (a)   each morning to the classroom.

If you got into trouble because you were talking to your neighbor without permission, you had to wear a _______ cap.

• clown

• fool

• dunce

What is one thing you would never want to touch or bump into when inside the classroom?

• the door

• the stove

• the wall

Which student chores were done after school?

• Bring in the firewood

• Clean windows

• Clean the privies

• Clap chalk erasers

What are the toys that you are familiar with that the students played with back in the 1860s?

• dolls

• spinning top

• ball and cup

• hoop and sticks

• Jacob's Ladder