From: "Borkowski, Kathy L - WHS" <Kathy.Borkowski@wisconsinhistory.org> Subject: RE: School Tours Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 20:31:33 +0000 Message-ID: <9a13844fba8b4c1cb1258c90a14fae8c@MEWMAD0P1956.accounts.wistate.us>
“One Room Schools: Stories from the Days of 1 Room, 1 Teacher, 8 Grades” by Susan Apps-Bodilly contains many games played at one-room schools.
More info here: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whspress/books/book.asp?book_id=424
Kathy Borkowski
Wisconsin Historical Society Press
kathy.borkowski@wisconsinhistory.org
608-264-6461
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From: localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu [mailto:localhistory-request@listserve.uwec.edu] On Behalf Of Mary & Mike Weynand
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 3:27 PM
To: localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu; Mary Beth Gehl; Ken and Jayne Chapman
Subject: School Tours
Our Old Village Hall Museum in Neosho, sponsored by the Neosho/Rubicon Historical Society, conducts a number of school tours, normally in May. They tend to be groups of 4th and/or 5th graders. We were discussing improvements to our customized tour for that age group. We have displays including an old one room school area and a mercantile store of the 1800's in which we interact with the students by comparing the current methods with the way their grandparents and great-grandparents went about their similar activities. We had thought about providing a comparison of the games played "back then" with what the children, with their electronic games, play with now. Is there a book that provides instructions on how to make and/or play these old games and/or a source in which we can acquire some old games for the students to play? Are their any historical societies who might have duplicates and would be interested in donating them to us?
One of our goals is to continuously improve and change our museum to best represent life in the past in our local area. You your help would be greatly appreciated.
