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Children showing interest in History
« on: Thursday 01 June 17 16:37 BST (UK) »
We combined stickers drawing and stickiy taped photocopied pages

The people s names are all real people from Victorian time .

 one was a baker the next a lamp lighter a general dealer

I'm going to add them as profile pics to family tree

Kept us busy and happy  for 40 mins and i practiced my sticky tape skills
.child concentrated on  cutting and sticking

Time for African stories I think

Hope you liked our work ..would anyone like one of their relatives artworked  ??
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Re: Children showing interest
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 01 June 17 17:02 BST (UK) »
And heres one for the lady in austrakia who encouraged us and anyone who has ancestors born 1860 to 1880 but doesnt have photos

Obviously have some family traits the lady is wearing slipers and the mans boots belong to a lady ..

My nana wore boots on wrong feet my dad used to wear jewellery that he.d made ..some would consider womens wear not to mention the kilt ...
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Re: Children showing interest
« Reply #2 on: Friday 02 June 17 06:07 BST (UK) »
Day wear Victorian lady and her invisible friend ....you can draw your own ghost .to fit the accessories ...the head and hat
Don't match the picture in the book

Typical of my family not to conform
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Re: Children showing interest
« Reply #3 on: Friday 02 June 17 09:17 BST (UK) »
What fun brigidmac.
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Re: Children showing interest in History
« Reply #4 on: Friday 02 June 17 16:18 BST (UK) »
hi brig.

was A R jones a police man and lamplighter.  any chance you could work up a shot of him at work? lol.
hoey. jones.

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Re: Children showing interest in History
« Reply #5 on: Friday 02 June 17 17:52 BST (UK) »
Looks fun and engaging. Nice ideas!

As I am training to become a primary school teacher (degree), I am always interested in engaging children with history. In fact, in one of my recent assignments, I wrote about teaching local history (to help build skills gained in family history) and achieved a high first!  :D

In schools, the theme of their history lessons is generally incorporated into other subjects to help gain a more thorough understanding and help to sustain an interest in history.
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Re: Children showing interest in History
« Reply #6 on: Friday 02 June 17 21:22 BST (UK) »
 Quotes from a history exam paper:-
" The ancient Egyptians were called Mummies.
They lived in three sided cubes called primitives.
They travelled by Camelot.
They lived in the Sarah dessert where the climate is so hot people have to live somewhere else.
They forced the Israelites to make bricks without any straw and eat unleavened bread, that`s bread without any ingredients.
Noah had a houseboat but it got stuck on the top of mount Marrowfat.
Moses had ten  very big tablets which he carted to the top of mount Sinus.I don`t know why he did this because he only  had to bring them down again.
King Solomon was one of David`s sons. He had 500 wives and 500 porcupines.

I might add these are from American children`s exam papers.Viktoria.


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Re: Children showing interest in History
« Reply #7 on: Friday 02 June 17 23:10 BST (UK) »
Ha ha victoria thanks nana .would love to share ideas Clarke

You're supposed to be thee artistic one alias Smith + Jones

I'm not sure our great grandfather was a policeman too where does that info come form ?/ not on censuses ..his son Abiah david Jones was also a lamplighter tho the've lined it up with elizabeths entry 1901


some of family stories misremembered he did not leave Mariah with 6 young chidren plus her 2 girls 
they were at least all in teens when he left and his eldest 3 and her henrietta were already married

would he have been aPeeler ?

Im using stickers from Victorian sticker book but most of our lot wouldnt have afforded such posh ones ..grandad said they shared everything + whoever got out of bed first got the best trousers
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« Reply #8 on: Saturday 03 June 17 01:06 BST (UK) »
Viktoria- that reminded me of a note I've got from 7 year old me. Spelling as in original:

"A long time a go people invinted the castle so that they could keep enmies out. There wepons are caterpults, canons and tipes of lazers."