Darnestown Elementary School Colonial Day

Darnestown Elementary 5th Graders To Live a Colonial Life for a Day

Darnestown Elementary School’s fifth grade class will present its 14th annual Colonial Day, Friday, April 20, 2012 when students will spend the day living in a colonial village settlement and exploring colonial life in a traditional New England setting.

The gym will be transformed into a colonial village complete with building structures, props, period costumes and decorations that depict life in an 18th century New England village. Parents and staff will be on hand to demonstrate village life by creating centers for a wigmaker/dentist, apothecary, quilting, storytelling, spinning, a blacksmith, a school house and shipyard. A colonial musician will perform for the students throughout the day.

Fifth graders, wearing traditional colonial clothing, will spend the day in the colonial village and will rotate to several activity stations. Other grades will get a chance to visit the colonial village throughout the day to see first-hand how children lived back then.

In the evening from 7-8 p.m., the village is open to the community and the 5th grade students will be performing skits from Colonial times.