When I was 8 or 9 years old I spent some time with my father’s brother’s family and my aunt took me to a pioneer school for the day, I believe with my cousin that’s my age. I don’t remember all the details but I remember the school because she dressed me in a bonnet and skirt and apron and packed a lunch for me in a tin pail and we spent the morning (not very long) doing lessons on slates and reading from their old grammar books and then toured the little farm after lunch and saw the animals and milking and such. It was SO neat that I remember it fondly still and I was excited to see that the Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth has something similar! Groups of at least 15 can do the same thing and it’s only $5 per child ($75 minimum) and you provide the teacher but they provide the curriculum for the morning fun and after lunch you get their “Meet the Pioneer” program tour. I want to do that as soon as I don’t have a nursing baby and the kids are old enough that we could take most of them. How fun would that be??? (Becky, don’t move until we do that – not that you are planning to move right now but we have to do that!)
Pioneer school curriculum from Log Cabin Village in Fort Worth.
Why didn’t I do that with you? Or maybe I did and totally forgot it. That does sound fun. When should we plan that field trip?
I stayed with them while the rest of you were with Grandma & Grandpa, it was just me. I wish I had pictures! It would be fun to make aprons and bonnets and vests for the kids. 🙂 I’ll probably wait to do that when the kids are a bit older.