Tuesday all 2nd grade students took part in the 3rd annual “Live Wax Museum” at Webster Elementary School during a fast paced 1-hour window from 9 a.m. until 10 a.m.!
The Live Wax Museum is an exciting hands-on history-learning element that concludes a 2-week long classroom lesson! The lesson begins with students choosing a historical influential person to research, and then they build a presentation around this person, make a prop and/or create their own costume for the big event. Swain said, “Students are encouraged to not go buy a new costume, but rather to be creative and make one from items we have here at school or at home.”
Mrs. Carrie Swain, a 2nd grade teacher at Webster explained this year teachers incorporated a new element that required students to write a 2-3 paragraph-writing component. Swain said, “In previous years we only had the presentation, prop and costume.” She went on to say, “This is our third year for holding the event and it gets better and better each year!”
In all 74 2nd grade students took part the Live Wax Museum. The students make up all three of the school’s 2nd grade classrooms.
Parents of 2nd grade students as well as K-4 teachers and students toured the museum this morning.
