For the past 10 years, the 5th grade at Darnestown Elementary School has studied and participated in Colonial Days. This was our first one and I hope all my children get to be colonial boys at DES. The parents and teachers build a mock (and quite impressive) village. The children dress in costume and spend the day at Colonial Day centers and even eat an authentic Colonial lunch. In the evening we returned to Colonial Darnestown to watch the 5th grade vignettes.
In a few weeks, they will all go to Williamsburg to finish the unit. It is wonderful and I am so glad that Coleman and hopefully my other boys get to learn hands on about our founding forefathers and the important era of their time.
Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. ~John Adams, Defense of the Constitutions, 1787
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