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Third Graders Perform Colonial Day Program

4/28/2017

Collegiate School 3rd Graders performed the annual Colonial Day program for parents and friends this morning in the Estes Multipurpose Room. The event serves as a finale to the grade level’s Project Based Learning unit on research.

The 3rd Graders posed a driving question to focus their study of Virginia history: How can we get 2nd Graders excited about Colonial Williamsburg? The students picked the topic they wanted to research more deeply: plantation life, colonial trades or the life of a colonial child. The students also chose the method to "show what they know" by creating a Google slide presentation, a ThingLink (a platform for creating interactive images and video), a picture book, a WeVideo or by becoming a wax figure character come to life. On Thursday, the students invited 2nd Graders to view the projects up close after the dress rehearsal.

This morning, the 3rd Graders donned period costumes that transformed them into fifes and drum corps members, town criers and members of 1773 Colonial Williamsburg society. Using a combination of songs and dances, the students demonstrated what life was like at that time in our nation’s history.

“Colonial Day provides students with a venue to synthesize what they have learned, practice speaking in front of others and address the process they went through while getting our younger students excited about Colonial Williamsburg,” said Katie Taylor, 3rd Grade teacher.

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