The Kirby Smith Center was originally built in 1900 as a public graded (elementary) and high school. It served as a school for 80 years and then became the School Board of Alachua County headquarters. It retains an original classroom from those early days for students to discover what life was like back in those days.
While back in time the girls got to wear pinafores, and the boys wore suspenders and collars. We went by old-fashion names such as, Hiram, Ezra, Amos, Ruth, and Grace. We read from a "Level 3 Reader" that was published in 1897. We practiced writing our new names in script on slate with chalk. Our school marm, Mrs. Smith, taught us about life in the early 1900s. And then students were split into groups to act as detectives and discover information about life in Gainesville over 100 years ago.
We had a great time! What was your favorite part?
15 comments:
When i saw the slnigshot,and the spellingbee.
When I saw the slingshot I wanted to sling it. and I Liked the chock board. and I also liked the spellingbee.
I didn't go but from what I hear they had fun the way they write there names soundes cool I hope every one had fun.
My favorite part was when we played the detective game.We were searching for information about the 1900.We found lots of information about the 1900.
I liked wearing the old day clothes back in the old days.I also liked pertending to be in the class back in the old days.It was fun!It felt like the old days.They did not have any thing we have today.I wis i lived back in the old days.It was like that 100 years ago.
what I liked about the kirby smith center was being ditective and my best part of the trip was eating lunch and what I didn't like was dressing like a pilgrim and my hands filing like there was goow on and that is what I liked did't like.
my favorite part was the spelling bee,slnigshot,detective game,when we went in the classroom,and hand writing,but i did want to eat but i did not like eating out there where them bugs were at .it came out a lot of peoples hair like in your food it was funny and i hoped every body liked going there but keelin i am sad you did not get to go.wow from; nashe
my favorite part was when we were in the class room and those pinafores were just torcher I hated them and the scipt writing was easy for me because I know how to write in cursine(script) already
At the kirby smith center it was fun there.I like dressing up because it looked like i was back then
When i went on my filltrip It was fun.They should us how to put on the cloes they put on back then.I loved it.
The fiel trip was fun .I like the jressing up.And writeing my name and cirsif.I liked the old things that were in there.
i liked my name luke and i also liked the spelling bee i got every one right.but idid not like the dress up part i did not feel right in those cloths.
my favorit part of the field trip was doing hand writing we did incursive it was fun my next favorit thang we did was doing the spelling bee i got all of them right we played an mistory game wich is win we get a peace of papper with guastoins and all the picturs every were was were in them i did not like the dressing up it was a relly bad styel
i liked the part when we had to wright in cursive and i liked when we did the spelling class and in the kirby smiht center i did not like when we had to put on the dress but i did like when we went on the field trip d~halani
that was the best day ever that was alsome ??????????????? from Morgan r
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