1. The boys who went to school had to bring fire wood and if you forgot you would have to sit in the coldest part of the room.
2. The boys wrote with goose-quill pens dipped in homemade ink and a lump of lead.
3. No one cared how words were spelled.
4. They went to school writing their words neatly.
5. In school all the teachers wanted to do was embarrass you.

Send comments and inquires to the third grade teachers from Germantown Academy, Micki Vieille, Sandy Bennett, Cara Herold.

Technical assistances and design furnished by Carol Siwinski, Curricular Technology Specialist, Germantown Academy.

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