FPS staff report
March 9, 2010
Fifth and sixth grade students in Mrs. Charlene Holloway’s social studies classes at Sherrodsville elementary school presented their first “Wax Museum” March 3 at the school.
Each of the 36 students represented a memorable individual who has lived or is still living who contributed to the fields of music, science, sports, politics, writing, explorers, inventors, famous women or some other significant role in history.
According to Mrs. Holloway, the students completed research questions and a graphic organizer with information applicable to their character. Each student created their own timeline with at least 5 significant dates and pictures. These same students took the information they learned and wrote a summary for their language art teacher.
Costumes and props were encouraged to be used in the Wax Museum to make their character more authentic.
Elementary students from the remaining classes at Sherrodsville attended the “museum” in the school gym last Wednesday morning, along with several parents. The visiting students pushed a “button’ on the hand of the character they wanted to learn more about.
The characters would then rise from their seat and give a short speech about who they are and why they are famous.
When the characters finished their speeches they would sit down and stay still until another visitor would come to hear them. Each character wore a name tag with their character’s picture and name on it. Students were scored on a rubric scale for their participation in the Wax Museum project, Mrs. Holloway said.
Following is a list of the 36 students and the characters they portrayed:
5th Graders
Bryden Adams, “Louis Pasteur”; Donnie Beckett, “Daniel Boone”; Mia DeLancy, “Rachel Carson”; Billy Flaherty, “Johnny Appleseed”; Jazmin Garbrandt, “Helen Keller”; Matt Garbrandt, “Theodore Roosevelt”; Chris Green, “George H. Bush”; Katlyn King, “Sacajawea”; Blake Miley, “Jerome Bettis”; Brooke Reichman, “Rosa Parks”; Talia Romeo, “Amelia Earhart”; Trever Russell, “Davy Crockett”; Thomas Simmons, “Babe Ruth”, and Cassie Wilson, “Eugenie Clark”.
6th Graders
Amber Adkins, “Annie Oakley”; Dalton Burrows, “Dwight D. Eisenhower”; Aaron Collins, “Santonio Holmes”; Whitley Enos, “Elizabeth Blackwell”; Joey Fogle, “Eminem”; Mikie Hockstettler, “Ozzy Osbourne”; Logan Kashuba “Sidney Cosby”; Gage Ornowski, “Blackbeard”; Elizabeth Lunemann, “Anne Frank”; Mikaela Manbeck, “Betsy Ross”; Brandon McCreary, “Lebron James”; Logan Miller, “Henry Ford”; Emmery Ornowski, “Marie Curie”; Clara Rector “Stephanie Meyer”; Michala Romig, “Abigal Adams”; Jeremy Toole, “Thomas Andrews”; Terry Tope, “Ricky Carmichael”; Aaron VanScoder, “Rob Drykdek”; Devon Wilson “”Miley Cyrus”; Makayla Wisman, “Pocahontas”; Sarah Worrell, “Jane Goodall”; Samantha Yost, “Hillary Clinton” and Zach Norris, “Johnny Cash”. |
