Early Education in America was very primitive and often only the basics were taught: the "3 R's" (reading, writing, and arithmetic). Some children learned their lessons at home while others, who were more fortunate, went to one-room schools. Many one-room schools were built during the 19th century to accommodate the growing number of children in an area.
Early learning materials varied and included items such as a hornbook, slate, and slate pencil or piece of chalk. Later, school supplies included a pencil, pencil box, paper, ruler, copybooks, quill pens, ink, and inkwell.
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Early Education in America was very primitive and often only the basics were taught: the "3 R's" (reading, writing, and arithmetic). Some children learned their lessons at home while others, who were more fortunate, went to one-room schools. Many one-room schools were built during the 19th century to accommodate the growing number of children in an area.
Early learning materials varied and included items such as a hornbook, slate, and slate pencil or piece of chalk. Later, school supplies included a pencil, pencil box, paper, ruler, copybooks, quill pens, ink, and inkwell.
1001 Schoolhouse Chalkboard Set includes a 5-inch x 7-inch wood frame chalkboard, 1-inch wood & felt eraser, 2 pieces of chalk and booklet with popular 19th-century games. Made in North Carolina!
1002 Chalkboard Only available separately.
1003 Child’s Hornbook features an exact-size lesson sheet on a wooden paddle
which shows ABCs, vowel combinations, and the Lord's Prayer.
Made in North Carolina.
1004 Colonial Cedar Pencils are a set of five round, natural 7-inch cedar pencils without erasers similar to those used in England and imported to the American colonies during the 18th century. Pencils of this nature would have had to be sharpened by whittling or cutting one end with a knife because pencil sharpeners weren’t invented until 1828. Pencils are neatly wrapped in a history sheet.
1005 Make Your Own Goose Quill Pen package includes illustrated instructions for cutting a quill pen, two easy ink recipes, and an authentic white goose quill (approx. 10 inches long) like the ones used in the signing of the Declaration of Independence and in Early American schools. Ink can be made from berries mixed with common household ingredients or from walnuts. Adult supervision suggested.
1006 Early American School Set includes a 6-inch wooden ruler and four round, natural 7-inch cedar pencils unsharpened and without erasers like those imported from England to the American colonies during the 18th century.
1007 Child’s Hornbook Set is packaged with our 1003 Child’s Hornbook featuring an
exact-size lesson sheet on a wooden paddle that shows ABCs, vowel combinations, and
the Lord's Prayer, plus the set includes 91004 The ABC Hornbook in America,
a 32-page book containing historical information and nostalgic line drawings.
Made in North Carolina.