Education – Colonial Times and Now

1. Education – Colonial Times and Now How is Education from the Colonial Times different from now? Lets go and answer your question. Turn to the next page… By Kelsey Simpson

2. Building Colonial Times Now We have bigger schools. More then one room school house and have levels with classrooms and other rooms plus a reading room, a library, and other activates. We have 26 or more rooms in a school. Only had one room school house. There was a bathroom that had been outside in an outhouse. They have a wood burning stove since that there was not any other source of heat.

3. Reading Colonial Times Now We learned to read with books, like bibles, dictionaries, atlases. Maybe sometimes with laptop to learn how to read. In each classroom we have about 1,000t books. Also libraries with 10,000t books, laptops with books and magazines. Sometimes iPads, with books and magazines. Colonial students learned to read, write with a hornbook, A hornbook is a flat ,wooden board, and with a handle, they often had the alphabet on it. A hornbook also has numbers carved into only one side, piece of paper with a poem and a prayer written on the hornbook attached to the other side. The hornbook has a thin sheet of the animal horn to protect the paper from wear and tear.

4. Learning Colonial Times Now Now in the days in some of the schools we take notes when we learn our lessons or in a notebook so we can go back and remember the work we did in the beginning of the school year. We also learn our lesson by blackboards, whiteboards, or video or audio record the teacher. Most Colonial students back then had to learn their lessons or work by memorizing their work that the teacher taught them or giving them a lesson to do. “That’s what the teacher said.”

5. Would you like to be living your life as a Colonial student? Most of all Colonial teachers believed that the best way to for students to learn in the school house is to memorize all of there lessons what the teacher taught them they did not take notes because they had NO books and the teacher said the best way to learn is to memorize.

6. A Day In The Life Of A Colonial School Teacher Mrs. Beech ran a school in her place/house. Since Mrs. Beech ran a school in her house most of the people and kids knew her from their town. The children’s parent’s were so happy to send their little and big children to Mrs. Beech house/school. Many of the Colonial children had most of there lessons at their teachers house to learn.

7. Strict Teachers Many Colonial school teachers were very very strict. Like if a child could not answer a question correctly the child would have to sit in the corner wearing a tall, pointy cap that said DUNCE. Another reason why Colonial teachers are very strict is because who ever forgot to bring firewood to school in the winter time had to sit farthest from the fireplace. Also if a child be bad or misbehaved was HIT! With a TWIG or A CANE ,or even LOCKED IN A CLASSROOM!

8. Supplies For Colonial Students Colonial classrooms are very very simple because they did not have blackboards or even chalk. Some colonial classrooms had quill pens, little paper, and often used charred wood for pencils. But they had a HORNBOOK that helps the Colonial students to learn and read and write. Back Then. No Blackboards Allowed

9. Other Duties Most Colonial families really depends on their children or students if they had to help with work on their farms or in the shops. So that makes a little time for school.

10. Conclusion I hope you understand the Colonial times and now. That it has a huge difference from now and then. So I just want you to know that we are very lucky to be treated now and not to be treated like in the colonial times in school. So I hoped you liked it and learned a least a little about back than in the Colonial Times!!

11. Bibliography A Day In The Life of a Colonial Schoolteacher By Kathy Wilson Kids in Colonial Times Lisa A. Wroble http://www.google.com