LITTLE SCHOOLHOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE Day at the farm

A ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE EXPERIENCE:

Spend the day learning what life was like living on the prairie and going to a one-room schoolhouse in the 1800's... and what living on a farm is like today.

EVENT DETAILS:

• COST: $45.00 per classroom seat (there are only 17 seats per event. **All proceeds go to LOVE IS A GIFT Ministries)
• DATES:  Aug 16... Sept 13... Oct 25... Nov 22... Dec 13, 2024 (select date in the dropdown)
• LOCATION:  The Homestead School at Hardison Mill, Columbia, TN
• AGES: this class is for 7 TO 12 YEARS OLDS only
• TECHNOLOGY: this is an event designed to foster relationships and simple living. No smart phones or devices allowed with the children.

• Learn the history of one-room schoolhouses, and the story of how ours came to be.
• Say a morning prayer and the Pledge Of Allegience.
• Learn the history of Hardison Mill and what farm life was like when it was originally a homestead in 1878, and what farm life is like today.
• Make Ragdolls & Quill-pens together... as they learn what toys were like in prairie days and how people wrote letters then.
• Have a prepared lunch that would have been served in prairie days.
• Play recess games from the 1800's
• Do chores on the farm together, interacting with the animals and the gardens.

• Your child can come dressed in 1800's prairie clothes or we will have dresses & bonnets for girls if they'd like to wear them... and suspenders and caps for boys.
• Have your child bring or wear boots if you have them as they will be walking around the farm.
• Lunch will be a traditional farm lunch (like beef stew with homemade bread, etc...) If your child has allergies or is gluten-free, you will have to send lunch from home with them.