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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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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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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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What fun brigidmac.
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hi brig.
was A R jones a police man and lamplighter. any chance you could work up a shot of him at work? lol.
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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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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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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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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."
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I hope to do workshops in tree making for home schoolers .people who learn differently .older people .and maybe go into local schools as a guest .I like Victorian and Edwardian and ww1era
but also doing living memory : fifties sixties seventies
Hard to get my head around the fact that the eighties is history now ..but is it taught in school
The six year old who came in rootschat room with me asked a lady in New Zealand if they have museums
In Paris she went to a museum where they could dress in Victorian clothes and in Leicester we have Newarhose museum with a 1930 s reconstruction of a small street and a WW 1 trench
Here.s a page I used to explain about my great grandfather being arrested for selling postcards of a lady in her undies
"it's NOT rude "
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Wow! that waist-.
No wonder the had the vapours.
Some time ago on T.V the programme had the preserved liver of an Edwardian lady.
There was such a deep groove caused by the steel bones in her corsets that the liver was almost in two halves.
It is always difficult getting a sense of time and history across to young children.
They don`t play very imaginatively nowadays as we used to do so it is perhaps harder for them to
visualise how things were.
We once took the top class to a very poor area of Manchester , Angel Meadow. Charter St Mission
did "dress up days"and we all sat on forms at long desks and did £ S D sums.
Later we played whip and top, hoops and skipping and Rally Vo( Relieve )O.
They had been a difficult class and did not really deserve the end of year treat to somewhere like Alton Towers.
Angel Meadow was a last minute substitute when they had "sobered up " a little.
Guess what-- they voted it the best school trip ever.Or did they !!! ;)
Viktoria.
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I'm happy to share ideas too Brigidmac.
The eighties can be taught in history lessons in England. Not sure about Scotland or Wales though as they follow their own curriculum. ;D
I was even taught about the eighties in history at primary school by looking at the decades from the 1900's. ;D ;D
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I did a simple
time travel detectives
Of my own family tree mystery
" Is this Charlotte" ?
With pics from various books about what people would have worn
Two dollars and photos of my family and friends
Then we did too young too old too rich
Wrong skin colour
looks like
They were intrigued that everything in history is not known and they can be part of solving mysteries ...every theory is valid ..
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I did a simple
time travel detectives
Of my own family tree mystery
" Is this Charlotte" ?
With pics from various books about what people would have worn
Two dollars and photos of my family and friends
Then we did too young too old too rich
Wrong skin colour
looks like
They were intrigued that everything in history is not known and they can be part of solving mysteries ...every theory is valid ..
Sounds very interesting! Children do love solving mysteries and proposing theories. ;D
Thank you Brigidmac.
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Thanks Clarky
Grown-ups including myself enjoy the stickers but sometimes it grieves me to cover up the beautiful underwear so putting the sticker on a seperate piece of paper and drawing the missing body parts is an extra activity
these usbourne books are sold by a friend of mine and i get 10% off
some of the hat stickes include the persons face ..so it is possible to make a complete person on another paper
the coats and muffs ..then cover up beautiful dresses so it seems a shame to but all the layers onto the pages of the books
i will try and include photos of what i mean
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Do you remember, the ladies I mean, those books with a cardboard figure of a little girl wearing
an underskirt?
There were various dresses, socks ,shoes, hats ,coats etc you could press out, and all were attached by tabs at the shouldersor ankles etc.
You could change her outfit as you pleased but nothing was permanent.
You could also trace round garments and design your own outfits. We had hours of fun, this post has reminded me of that.Thankyou.
I wonder if ,for example Manchester Museum of Costume at Whitworth Park would have prints of clothes from various eras?
Viktoria.
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yes they had them in some girls magazines in the 60's ..Bunty ?JUDY ??
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Here's another from Victorian sticker book
Children love seeing the old roller skates
..I remember finding a rusty pair of my father's made of metal with leather straps from 1950
..they may have been older if he had then second hand
to me as a child they were antiques !
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yes they had them in some girls magazines in the 60's ..Bunty ?JUDY ??
OOOOH Bunty I go back a long way, early1940`s for me.
We also liked the magic painting books ( which rather defeated the object).
You just wet the various area and the paint was in the paper, not strong colours, pastels mostly.
Viktoria.
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I did a mini family tree with objects
What is it ?
Can you work out or guess age .place of origin.
What made of who made by
Why attached to that person in tree
Will try and add picture from gallery in case you want to play
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Family tree objects
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The star of this tree is the doll today ..it's my mum's birthday ..represents the country and language she took her school exams in .
Above the is a piece of Slate which fell of roof of a house 107 years old
Museum curator told my detective club that the origin of this slate and its age from quarry more like 200 years
Next to the doll is a pottery cheetah money box made by my father .pottery was a hobby before silverware there were 7 animal / bird money boxes altogether this one was mine .the owl contained pennies from Victorian times to decimilization the hedgehog had farthings sisters have a hippo and a panda
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I did a mini family tree with objects
What is it ?
Can you work out or guess age .place of origin.
What made of who made by
Why attached to that person in tree
Will try and add picture from gallery in case you want to play
Very good questions. They will make the children think! :)
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" it is cool ' we learnt history. I.m six
"I can say wooden spoon in French ..the spoons from the desert are 33 years old " I'm nearly 7
I'm four I learnt about the thing what you put milk in and then and turns and makes butter
I'm 43 and I learnt how old B is and I found out what the mystery object was
Today's lesson was wooden objects
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Pic ??
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Today 1-3pm at my local library
Can you work out .use age .origin. value of these wooden objects ...have you got any of your own to show (+tell or make us guess)
Feel free to join in Rootschatters friends and relations of all ages and abilities .
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Computer is not letting me post all the pictures but I have fallen spoons from 3 countries mostly heavily used
Some over 35 years old
Some different shapes ..I don't know much about cooking so am hoping to use their correct functions
..ladle.salad spoon .mixer .teaspoon ...