School Days

On Friday of the weekend is School Day. Fourth graders from area schools "Go Back to the Days" of colonial life and times. Educational curriculm on Indiana history is provided through "hands on" demonstration including candle dipping, bow napping (making bows by hand), flint napping, spinning, hide preserving, leather working, visiting the village blacksmith, working in the garden and many other colonial crafts. It's 'girls on the one side' and 'boys on the other' when they attend blab school. Students enjoy participating in military drills with wooden muskets, and attending a "Punch and Judy" puppet show. There are sewing lessons with students making a quilt square to take home. And...everyone's favorite is the cannon demonstration.
Lunch is provided. Everyone is invited to enjoy soup prepared in iron kettles on an open fire, as well as other period foods.

Each year, an essay contest is held prior to the event. Students write in first person narrative on a subject chosen. Winners receive a pizza party donated by Pizza Hut.
School Day is made possible through the support of many local merchants and organizations. Those include Montieth Tire, Teachers Credit Union, Kosciusko Community Foundation, Dekko Foundation, and several individuals. Student teachers from Grace College, as well as volunteers from the community, help make this day a success.
Sorry, Friday is a kids-only day!
Young and Old Alike are invited to join in on the many craft activities at the Kid's Corner on Saturday and Sunday during...Back to the Days of Kosciuszko.


2002 Award Winners

Beginning with our year 2002 event, it is with great pleasure that we add this School Day Awards Page to our website, to perpetually honor the students that win awards in our Essay and Coloring Competitions each year!
To all the students that enter our competitions, we congratulate you, because our judges have a hard time picking the winners!!!
Winners unable to attend our Yearly Awards Ceremony, are included in their YEAR AWARDS INDEX along with those that could attend, and receive their Awards at their school, following our Back to the Days of Kosciuszko — Living History Event...!
COLORING CONTEST WINNERS — AshLee Hemmer, grade 1, and Joseph Erickson, grade 3, both home-schooled; Karara Dishman, grade 1, Jeanette Sanchez, grade 2, and Melanie Wilson, grade 3, all of Leesburg Elementary School; Logan Waddle, grade 1, Brandon McKinney, grade 2, and Meghann Waddle, grade 3, all of Redeemer Lutheran School; and Luke Smith, grade 1, Alex Sanchez, grade 2 and Liesl Schroedl, grade 3, all of Sacred Heart School.
ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS — Emily O'Daniels, 9, Homeschool Friends; Brittney Kennedy, 10, Leesburg Elementary School; Drew Dobbins, 9, Redeemer Lutheran School; Devan Ostrom, 10, Eisenhower Elementary School; Haley Owen, 9, Jefferson Elementary School.


— ATTENTION PARENTS AND RELATIVES OF PICTURED AWARD WINNERS—
The photos that you can download here, are enhanced and reduced in size from the original full size photos taken at our Awards ceremony, to make home printing easy. If you decide to have a camera shop make an 8x10 (or larger) print (or a poster), we recommend that you email BTDK and request download links to the un-retouched 1600x1200 Original and Enhanced 1600x1200 (800x600 master) files, so you can have the very best possible enlargement(s) made. Note: The -2- separate .jpg files, range in size from 600k to 900k (each), and have the least possible jpg file save compression.
 

School Day 2007

School Day coment by Taylor Graves of Secred Hart School