Some schools left it up to the kids imaginations, bopping gophers, skating and sledding, playing Fox and Goose in winter, or playing ball, like Anti-I-Over and softball. Other schools had merry-go-rounds, swings, slides, monkey bars, Giant Stride, and teeter-totters. There was usually a fence around the schoolyard - to keep the cattle out. Many schools had hand pumps for drinking water and outhouses, for boys and girls.