Figure 1.--Here is a street scene from Rothaugen. We see a residential area around 1920. The children are coming home from school. Several of them are carrying their books. Notice that they do not have stachels like German boys. |
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We have very limited information on Norwegian school activities at this time, but we have begun to collect some information. Activities at Norwegian schools are basically the same as those at other European schools. We believe that like quite a number of European schools the sports program and other extra-curricular activities is rather limited compared to American schools. We know of no destinctly Norwegian school activities. The basic difference we have noted in Norway relates to the climate, the cold weather and snow. This affects how the children dress, go back and forth to school, as well as the games and sports that they play. Other than this, as far as we know, the basic academic and school activities in Norway are comparable to those in other countries. Hopefully our Norwegian readers will tell us about going to school in their country.
The basic difference we have noted in Norway relates to the climate, the cold weather and snow. Clidern have to dress very warmly for coming and going to school, of course this varies seasonsally. But during the cold winter, warm clothing is a necesity. And the further north you go, the more warmly the children have to dress. Here is a street scene from Rothaugen (figure 1). We see a residential area around 1920. The children are coming home from school. Several of them are carrying their books. Notice that they do not have stachels like German boys.
The climate also affects how the games and sports that they play. Sports like hockey, skiing, and skating are particularly popular.
Norwegian children like children in other countries enjoy theatrials. Here there are a range of such productions from small classroom skits to important school plays. A reader sends us a scene from a Norwegian school play. The children are doing a skit based on the books of the Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren. These are popular throughout Scandinavia.
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