Howick historical village visit

Hi this is my Howick Historical Village which was very fun. The bus trip was very long it was about 40 minutes which is ages! We had three different activities they were:

1.  Old games. 
They were very fun, we learn't about why they played them and how the kids made them. Did you know that some had to be games that you could play on ships because other wise they would get in the way. 
We played stilts, skipping, bowling, grace, log walkers, small stilts, hoop and skimmer and coytes. I found the skipping and stilts hard. Hoop and skimmer is you have a metal ring and a line connected to it and you have to try and run around with it without the ring falling over. It is difficult.

2.  Decoding.
We went to an old house and learnt about different ways that people communicated in the 1800s. They were morse code, braille and semaphore. 
Semaphore is communicating by flags, each letter has a different flag sign. Red and yellow flags are used for the sea and white and blue flags are used for the land. They are very helpful when trying to communicate over long distances. 
Braille is used when someone is blind and there are raised dots, they mean different letters. 
Morse code is used on ships to tell if there is a problem or if there is a warning. You can also use it on land and sos is the most simple sign. You press a button and it will make a beeping sound on the other one. Then they will be able to decode it, depending on if the beeps are short or long.

3. School.
The school was very fun. We went into a tiny building with no paint on the walls and sat on desks with slates in front of us ( slates are rocks that people in the olden days used instead of paper. ) We used slate pencils (it was very faint against the rock) and the teachers made us write out lines. The sentence was "the cat sat on the mat" and we had to write that out in connected writing, it was hard! Then the teacher explained why they caned kids in the olden days with some examples.  In the olden day schools boys sat on one side of the room and girls sat on the other.

Did you enjoy your visit to Howick Historical Village? Did you know that the old fashioned schools couldn't make the temperature hot or cold so in the winter the teacher had to come in and get the fire going.
Bye, Matilda.