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Princeton Day School’s Annual Barn Week for Lower School Students, 4/30-5/4

Princeton Day School is pleased to announce the second annual Barn Week, running from Monday, April 30^th to Friday, May 4^th at Pretty Brook Farm, on campus. Barn Week is a unique program that offers our Lower School students the opportunity to visit farm animals, including a horse, sheep, goats (including a baby goat), and a pot-bellied pig, who will reside at the school for a week, while deepening their science and social studies curricula, and learning about sustainability. 

The Lower School students will engage in a number of activities during Barn Week, all tying into their curriculum. These activities include interacting with the animals, learning about the history of the barn, making butter, learning how to square dance, and watching a blacksmith presentation, as the horse has his hooves trimmed and shoes fitted.

Lower School science teacher Aaron Schomburg, an organizer of the event, noted, “our third graders start the week discussing how certain animals helped pioneers move west. This ties in nicely to their classroom study on the westward movement. Our fourth graders will learn about how certain animals we have in the barn are not native to North America and we'll learn where they originally came from. This investigation fits in nicely with the students’ immigration unit.”

Princeton Day School is an independent, coeducational school educating students from
Pre-Kindergarten – Grade 12.