More than 160 fifth-grade students at Twin Lakes Academy Elementary transformed themselves into wax figures on November 5 for the annual Twin Lakes Wax Museum.
As part of a biography genre study, each fifth-grade student had to research a famous person, such as a president or historical figure, author, artist, athlete or actor, and transform into that person by becoming a “wax figurine.”
In addition to dressing up as the character, students created display boards with important facts and interesting information pertaining to the person, as well as wrote and memorized a 60-second speech to be recited when visitors pressed a button on the display board, making the wax figure come to life. Many students also replicated their characters’ voices, accents and mannerisms. Some students even brought in props to assist in the transformation.
The students read biographies about their famous person, as well as spent time conducting research in encyclopedias and on the Internet. Some of the characters included
Queen Victoria, Theodore Roosevelt, Humphrey Bogart and Lucille Ball.
The rest of the school was able to enjoy the fifth-grade students’ hard work. Throughout the morning, the first-, second-, third- and fourth-graders traveled through the wax museum pushing buttons to make the “wax figures” come to life and listening to the stories of these great individuals.
For more pictures from the Twin Lakes Academy Elementary wax museum, visit the
DCPS' flickr photostream.
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