Our Annual Homeschool History Day is scheduled for Tuesday, October 22, 2019!
RSVP with the number of kids you are bringing by email to Sunita at sunitahalasz@gmail.com.
The cost is $5 per family, which gives you admission for the day to the Historic Saranac Lake Laboratory Museum and also serves as a donation to our hosts at the museum who will also be our guides for our afternoon activities.
Morning activities will take place in the John Black Room (basement) of the museum. In addition to the upstairs part of the museum (the laboratory), there is a display called "The Art of the Cure" in the John Black Room, so be sure to take time to look at it!
Please arrive at 9:30am to put your potluck food in the fridge and give your treasure to the treasure bag fillers. The museum has a full kitchen.
Kids' presentations will start at 10am. Then, we will all share a potluck lunch together around noon.
In the afternoon, we will caravan over to the Pine Ridge Cemetery in Saranac Lake to learn about and honor some of fascinating people buried there who influenced local and also world history. We will most likely be done at 2-2:30pm. Here's what you need to do to participate:
1. Please RSVP by October 15, at the latest, so that we have a complete head count for participants to use for treasure contributions.
2. Kids are NOT required to prepare a presentation (because being in the audience is an important role too!), but if they would like to choose a historical person, place, or thing to dress up as and present about for about 5 minutes, it really is a fun way to practice no-pressure public speaking! Parents can feel free to stand up with their kids while they present and help prompt them or act as their interviewer to help them remember the facts they researched.
3. If you are able, please bring a small treasure to put into each child's goody bag that they will get at the end of the day. In the past, people have brought things like pencils, stickers, apples, etc.
4. Please bring a dish to pass. Please let us know if your kids have any allergies we should be aware of.