1A: One Room Schoolhouses

We have moved on in our school study to learning about one-room schoolhouses.  Today the first graders analyzed photographs of one-room schoolhouses from different places across the country and focused on noticing what types of places had one-room schoolhouses as well as the materials that were used to build the schools.  They noticed that some of the schoolhouses were on prairies, and therefore built with sod, while others were located in wooded areas and built with logs.  Next, we read a historical fiction book called The Schoolchildren's Blizzard and discussed the affect of the setting (a schoolhouse on the prairie) on the plot of the text.