Get the Cabin Days
curriculum booklet by (UPDATED 9/08) clicking
here
You might even see Mr. Navarre!
Kids learning
how to do laundry in 1830.
Public Cabin
Days visitors sitting in the one room schoolhouse.
Learning the
finer points of quilting with Aunt Molly.
Cabin
Days
Grades
1 and up
The
Cabin Days program meets Indiana Academic Standards for
Social Studies!
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The dates for
the 2008 Cabin Days program are:
-Tuesday, October 14, 2008
-Wednesday, October 15, 2008
-Thursday, October 16, 2008
-Friday, October 17, 2008
Also new for 2008: Rain dates!
October 21 and 22
One of our
most popular school programs is the annual Cabin Days
program. This living history program is designed to
coordinate with social studies teachers who are teaching 4th
grade Indiana history. Cabin Days takes place at the
Pierre Navarre log cabin in South Bend's Leeper Park East.
Pierre Navarre, considered to be the first European to
permanently settle in St. Joseph County, built the cabin in
the early 1800s.
During Cabin
Days, Center for History volunteers, dressed as pioneers,
demonstrate cooking, recreation and trades about life in
1830s Michiana. Lively interaction occurs as students,
eager to learn about pioneer life, ask questions of the
pioneers they are visiting. Students may stop to talk
with the Navarre family who are cooking outdoors. They
might also be curious about the jars of sassafras root,
rosehips, willow bark and leeches (careful, they're real!)
that set in rows in front of Doc Hardman. And the
school marm always welcomes the children to her schoolhouse
as she teaches lessons from The New McGuffey Second
Reader.
To make
reservations for Cabin Days or for more information, contact
our Tour Coordinator at (574) 235-9664, ext. 239 or
