New England - 1890s The One-Room Schoolhouse program focuses on the values of a nineteenth-century education. The experience is recreated by students and teachers with a bevy of fun role reversals throughout the show.
Since living alone as a young woman would be socially unacceptable in the Victorian era, teacher Miss Mabel Weatherbee dwells in the home of the Lutz family. Once the madatory before-school chores are completed by Catharine, Elizabeth, and Andrew Lutz, they join Miss Weatherbee and neighboring children on their trek --either on foot or by horseback -- to the schoolhouse. After getting aquainted with the room's layout, the subjects being studied, and the school supplies needed (such as a slate, chalk, wood, rags, lunch pail, and the like), the rules of the classroom are then spelled out by visiting schoolmarm, the stern Miss Gunther. Following a clever recitation by promising pupil, Percy Freihofer, the Spring Jubilee unfolds with an exuberant square dance to complete the show.
Miss Mabel Weatherbee - is a fictitous single woman from the South. Her high-collared dress and hairstyle reflect the rigid Victorian norms of the day.
Best for grades K - 8