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<h1>🏫 School in Colonial Times</h1>
<h2>Week 24 • Wednesday • Hands-On: Learn Like a Colonial Kid</h2>
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<h3>📖 Reading Time</h3>
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<p>Colonial kids went to school in one small room. Children of all ages learned together with one teacher. In winter, a fireplace kept them warm — students even brought firewood to school!</p>
<p>There were very few books. Many children learned to read from a <strong>hornbook</strong> — a wooden paddle with the alphabet and a prayer on it, covered by a thin, clear layer to protect the paper.</p>
<p>Instead of pencils, students wrote with <strong>quill pens</strong> made from feathers, dipped in ink. Paper cost a lot, so kids often practiced letters on birch bark or slates. School lessons were reading, writing, and arithmetic — that means math!</p>
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<h3>✏️ Reading Questions</h3>
<p>1. How many rooms did a colonial school have?</p>
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<p>2. What is a hornbook?</p>
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<p>3. What did students use instead of pencils?</p>
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<p>4. What three subjects did colonial kids learn?</p>
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<h3>🔍 Hands-On: Make Your Own Hornbook</h3>
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<p style="margin-bottom:2px;"><strong>You need:</strong> cardboard or thick paper, a marker, scissors, and a grown-up helper.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:2px;">1. Cut the cardboard into a paddle shape — a rectangle with a handle at the bottom.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:2px;">2. Neatly write the alphabet in capital letters at the top: A B C D E...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:2px;">3. Below the alphabet, write your favorite short sentence or saying.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:2px;">4. Decorate the edges. If you have a plastic sheet or clear tape, cover the front just like a real hornbook!</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:2px;">5. Bonus challenge: try writing your name with a feather or cotton swab dipped in paint — just like using a quill pen.</p>
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<h3>🎨 Design Your Hornbook</h3>
<p style="font-size:10.5px; color:#555;">Before you build, draw your hornbook plan here. Show the paddle shape, the alphabet, and your sentence.</p>
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<h3>✏️ Fill in the Blanks</h3>
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<span>room</span><span>hornbook</span><span>quill</span><span>ink</span><span>slates</span><span>arithmetic</span>
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<p>1. Colonial school was one small <span class="fill-blank-line"></span>.</p>
<p>2. Kids learned to read from a <span class="fill-blank-line"></span>.</p>
<p>3. They wrote with a <span class="fill-blank-line"></span> pen made from a feather.</p>
<p>4. The pen was dipped in <span class="fill-blank-line"></span>.</p>
<p>5. Kids practiced letters on <span class="fill-blank-line"></span> or birch bark.</p>
<p>6. Colonial math was called <span class="fill-blank-line"></span>.</p>
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<h3>✏️ True or False</h3>
<p style="font-size:10.5px; color:#555;">Write T for true or F for false in each circle.</p>
<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Colonial schools had one room.</div>
<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Every colonial student had a laptop.</div>
<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> A hornbook showed the alphabet.</div>
<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Quill pens were made from feathers.</div>
<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Paper was cheap and easy to get.</div>
<div class="tf-item"><span class="circle-box"></span> Students brought firewood to school in winter.</div>
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<h3>📊 Review</h3>
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<tr><th>I learned...</th><th>Circle one</th></tr>
<tr><td>What a colonial school was like</td><td>YES / NOT YET</td></tr>
<tr><td>What a hornbook and quill pen are</td><td>YES / NOT YET</td></tr>
<tr><td>I made my own hornbook</td><td>YES / NOT YET</td></tr>
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