South School student Zachary Monahan, left, portrays Franklin Delano Roosevelt during last Thursday morningís Wax Museum project. Evan Pagliuca and Rayane Anid listen to Monahan as he talks about our 32nd presidential highlights. (Photo By Sean Brown)

Traveling through the fourth grade classrooms at the South Elementary School last Thursday morning was like a walk through history.
In one corner stood Thomas Edison, Ronald Reagan and Princess Diana.....across the room sitting in his wheelchair was Franklin Delano Roosevelt. And Abe Lincoln, Helen Keller and John F. Kennedy were all there as well. 

The time travel experience was actually a museum made up of students imitating icons from both the past and present. Like the wax figures in Madame Tussaud's famous Interactive Wax Museum, the students dressed as their characters.

They prepared speeches describing their characters and important facts about their lives. When visitors tapped their "press to listen" buttons, the students came to life as their characters.
"They are supposed to stay perfectly still and say their speech," said Mackenzie Lally, 7.
The first grader visited the museum with her classmates. She particularly liked meeting Princess Diana and Abraham Lincoln.
"It was fun," she said.
"It was pretty cool," added her classmate Michael Conroy, 6. "They were wearing dress up clothes and some had fake beards and old-fashioned hats."

Read the complete article in the Stoughton Journal.

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