Greenacres Celebrates Colonial Day

On Monday, May 16th Greenacres 4th grade students learned what it was like to live in the colonial era when Scarsdale was founded. Students, parents and teachers celebrated their annual Colonial Day by dressing up in traditional colonial clothing and participating in various activities including churning butter and colonial dancing.

The fourth grade teachers Ms. Cooper, Ms. Deppert, Ms. Erigo, Ms.Mcdermott and Ms.Witmer did a wonderful job planning Colonial Day by having many different events for the students to participate in.

In one of the 4th grade classrooms students were able to see and participate in the processes of churning butter and spinning wool from a traditional sewing machine. Outside the classroom students were led through different colonial games and introduced to colonial dancing. A guitarist accompanied the dancers playing music of the era. Overall the day was a success as students had fun and were introduced to colonial culture.

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