Little School on the Prairie

After touring ALL the attractions on the Ingalls Homestead (see above), we waited for the team and wagon and rode across the prairie to the schoolhouse. Each child got to drive the team, and we had a "class" with the teacher when we arrived.

"All through the long, hot weeks they went to school, and every day they liked it more. They liked reading, writing, and arithmetic. They liked spelling-down on Friday afternoons. And Laura loved recess, when the little girls rushed out into the sun and wind, picking wild flowers among the prairie grasses and playing games." On the Banks of Plum Creek-Chapt. 21

The teacher told us that students in those days had their own PC's: Personal Chalkboards.

M. was our own Laura Ingalls. She was asked to read a recitation during "class."