Families near Hayes fill a one-room schoolhouse for Halloween
Rural families gathered at a one-room schoolhouse near Hayes, in the Cheyenne community, for the area's annual Halloween party.
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Families in the Cheyenne community gathered at a one-room schoolhouse near Hayes for the annual Halloween party, the Capital Journal reported. The rural party is the area's way of marking the season together.
The schoolhouse is the room they used. The paper's account is this year's gathering, not a claim about every ranch family in western South Dakota.
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Near Hayes, South Dakota, in a rural area called the Cheyenne community, families went to a one-room schoolhouse for the annual Halloween party. A one-room schoolhouse is a small school where children of different ages share one room. Out in the country, that building can also be the place neighbors gather when there is no big gym nearby. The party is a yearly habit. The news is that families showed up again and used the schoolhouse for Halloween. It is one community's party, not a festival for the whole state.
- Why would a small school be the gathering place for a whole community?
- What would you bring to a party if the nearest store were far away?
- How is a one-room school different from a school with many classrooms?
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