LMA hosts live wax museum

Who knew that Laurence Manning Academy produced some of the world’s most famous people including Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Marilyn Monroe, Babe Ruth and Will Smith. Or at least their likenesses.

On Feb. 10, LMA’s Bubba Davis Gymnasium turned into a live wax museum at the sound of fifth-grade teacher’s Libby Anderson’s whistle. Anderson’s, Nancy Hubbard’s and Kathryne Jans’ fifth-grade classes were given the assignment to study about world-renowned people, and present their biographies in the first person.

“We wanted them to study the biography, do some research and present it in a way so students could feel as though they were part of the famous person that they studied,” Anderson said.

Each of the students researched the famous person, made a costume, and made a two-minute presentation on their person.

“This was a way for them to feel more real through the first person, rather than a third person experience,” Anderson said.