Family & School

First & Second Grade

This new program is a combination of Children's Chores and a simplified One-Room School. In the log cabin, an interpreter will highlight family life and roles in areas such as outdoor tasks, cooking, and sleeping. Children will participate in several chores; butter-making is available by request only. In the schoolhouse, "Miss Post" will lead the children through classroom activities. Taking the names of historical Troy pupils, students will write on slates, experience lessons from McGuffey's Reader and Ray's Arithmetic, and play a recess game. Students will spend one hour in each building discovering 19th-century life. Offered September-November and April-June. (Program duration 2 hours. Designed for 30-60 students. 30 student minimum.)