Spinning a button on a string sounds easy — until you try it, observed Lincoln Elementary School fifth-grader Josh Fulton. Fulton, along with the rest of his class, spent a half hour with first grade teacher Christy Thompson, who never left character as a prairie school marm tutoring her one-room students in ciphers, show-and-tell and recess.
Show-and-tell items included a mud dauber’s nest, bird’s nest and old-time lantern.
Jonathan Lynn played along when his turn came by telling the class he carried the lantern to school “because a storm was…
Students bring history to life
