Oh did my family love this place! I thought it was perfect timing to visit a one room school house for my 7 year old. We read three Little House on the Prairie and Anne of Green Gables books so she had a pretty good understanding of life on the prairie not to mention the one room school house. I am a true believer of dimensional learning. Reading, watching a movie and seeing in person I think heightens the learning perspectives and helps children collect their own creative thoughts and perspectives in understanding concepts. This experience was dimensional and wonderful.
My daughter learned through a docent (whose own mother attended the school as a child) what life was like at school for children went from 1st grade to 8th in one room with one teacher. What a typical day looked like, how the children learned and what they wrote on i.e. chalkboard tablets for the younger children and paper and ink for the older children. We saw education primers of what books they learned from. What a child brought each day in terms of food for lunch, what they wore, etc. AND what every child finds interesting...the boys and girls outhouses. My daughter seriously didn't want to leave she loved it there.
As we went to our car we discovered another house/museum not to miss. Run by 4 docents of varying ages our family learned what life was like for a family with modest means living on the prairie. We saw where the father/husband worked to manage a farm and home. What a wife did in terms of cooking, cleaning and managing her family and a wonderful perspective of what life was like as a child. There were three docents of varying ages to help create the perspectives of a child and young adult ready for marrying age. We were then taken outdoors and discovered games from ring toss, darts, stilts and more then learned how to collect buckets of water to wash clothes and yes my 7 year old washed clothes!! Seriously, what a great experience and the docents were wonderful!! A must see experience for all!!
Visit http://www.pioneersholesschool.org/
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