schools

Kids had to do chores before they went to school. The kids fed the animals every day and did farm chores. They even helped by cooking breakfast every day. Everyone had to do work. Some kids went to schoolhouse and others went to a neighbor lady house to learn. They even learned reading, and writing. They learned the bible. Boys and Girls learned how to do trades and keep house. They walked to school. A lot of kids learned from the hornbook. A hornbook was a sheet of paper glued to the wooden paddle and the paper was covered with a sheet of clear horn. It was made of cow’s horn. The Hornbook had the alphabet. It had capital and small letters. It had syllables for the children could sound out. It even had something to read from the bible and some hornbooks had the lord’s prayer. The New England Primer was a little reading book. The New England Primer taught reading lessons and it was the first book that had a prayer.