Spring Activities With Aylett Country Day School Students

On April 8, sponsored by the Museum, Carol Lowry made a presentation on the Civil War to approximately twenty 4th and 5th grade students at Aylett Country Day School (ACDS).  This interactive presentation engaged students in understanding how national, state, and local events affected those living in the county.

On April 25  forty-five ACDS students, grades 1-3, visited the Museum for interactive learning about long ago, day-to-day activities:  the schoolroom, the post office in a store, laundry, food preservation, creating material from fibers to make clothes and linens, marine fossils, and outdoor games. This year new activities were added:  churning butter and pressing it into a mold, more outdoor games such as marbles and “Red Rover”, manually stamping envelops at the post office, and making ice cream.  Afterwards they ate a picnic lunch on the grounds.