Yankee Doodle Keep It Up!

The Navigators love to sing and perform. 

Here we are at our all school Gathering 

singing Yankee Doodle. 

More Pioneer School Day

We still reminisce of the olden days at the Midway School on Donkey Creek. 

So here are a video, a Venn Diagram comparison chart and some of our nicely done thank you notes. 

A Pioneer School Day in Nineteen Aught One

Our study of the Revolutionary War is almost over and we're  ready for an expansion, as in Westward Expansion!

Skip west a few 1000 miles and  forward about 100 years 

to Gig Harbor in 1901.

Miss Bennett, the schoolmarm at the Midway School 

on Donkey Creek is about to ring the bell!

We're dressed,all ready to go. 

 

We've got our drum sticks and boiled eggs wrapped in waxed paper and packed up in our baskets and kitchen towels. 

 

Miss Bennett, our schoolmarm, rings the bell and inspects our cleanliness.

We are given our chores, say the Pledge of Allegiance, sing My Country 'Tis of Thee  

and be sure to stand on the right side of our desks and say yes ma'am.

We sit up straight and fold our hands on our desks. 

We've heard that Miss Bennett doesn't smile until December!

We practice our reading...

Our writing...

and our 'rithmetic.

We even get in trouble! (Just pretend.)

Holding a book

Keeping our nose in a chalk drawn circle

Standing in the corner

We "toe the line" on the platform

We take a couple breaks and do some exercises and sing some songs. 

She'll be coming around the mountain

We recite our memory work. 

And we take a very serious class picture.

A big thank you to the generous donors and volunteers of Gig Harbor who rescued Midway School and moved it to its present day location with the dream of someday hearing the voices of school children again within its walls. We had a great day experiencing what it was like to go to school in "nineteen aught one." Miss Bennett was perfect and yes, she does smile!