In the olden days they hadn’t invented pop up toasters yet. We cooked our toast in a very old toaster and our bread was easily burnt.
We had to be very polite. Good manners were always very important in the olden days.
In the olden days the dinner table was always set and everyone had jobs to do to help get prepared before and after meal times. You never put the jam or margarine container on the table; it was put onto saucer before going to the table. We had to wear napkins at the table.
The olden days’ washing machine was very different to the one we have now. All clothes had to go through a wringer to get out the excess water and they came out very flat. Now our washing machines just spin all of the extra water out.
The clothes were very different in the olden days. The children looked quite posh. The boys wore shorts, jackets and boots and the girls wore pinafores.
In the Old School House
The teacher was very strict and mean. The teacher did a nail check and some of us got told to get out a scrubbing bush, because our nails were too dirty.
In the olden days, children were to be seen and not heard. We had to write this for our handwriting.
You had to stand up when you were answering a question and when you’d finished answering you had to say Miss – “10 Miss”.
We practiced good breathing techniques.
We had to use ink pens and they made lots of blobs on our paper. They also made lots of blobs on our hands and our clothes.
We had to link our letters and it was very hard to do. We had to concentrate and do our very best.
There were not any left handers in the olden days, because they had to write with their right hand or get ‘6 of the best’.
Here are our photos:
Thanks to all the parents who provided transport.
Gee, your trip to Te Manawa sounds like it was a great experience! I can't believe you would get the cane for using your left hand in the old days, that's a bit tough! Thank goodness those rules have changed - there are lots of lefties in Room 6 and I'm glad I don't have to give them 'six of the best'!
ReplyDeleteThe photos you took at Te Manawa are fantastic and I know you had a wonderful time. Do you know that when I first started teaching, the Headmaster of the schools where I worked kept a great big leather strap in their desk. All the children were scared of it. Sometimes they would walk around the playground with 'the leather' sticking out of a pocket. How awful!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure you had fun Room 4 at Te Manawa, it sounds like fun. Linking your letters must have been hard at you age.
ReplyDeleteYour trip to Temanawa sounds interesting I remember when I went to the old school house I was really scared of the teacher. I hope you enjoyed your visit.
ReplyDeleteCool slide show Room 4. I like how you got to dress up and go to the old class room at Te Manawa.
ReplyDeleteGreat photos,I remember the old wrigners, my mum had 1 when I was a child. Took such a long time to do the washing, glad they don't have them these days. There was lots of concentration going on in the classroom and the pens that you used looked tricky to use.
ReplyDeleteFrom Mrs Pene (Catherines Mum)