Second grade students at the Miller School in Waldoboro got more than exercise when they took a walk downtown earlier this month. They gained knowledge about their community and learned how to create a three-dimensional map of what they saw.
“It was a great way to combine art class with social studies,” Principal Julia Levensaler said Nov. 27.
Students in Andrea Hamalainen and Pam Stuart’s second grade classes worked with art teacher Brooke Holland to build the models that include buildings, roads, the Medomak River and miniature mannequins of the students, themselves.
After their excursion, the teacher made photographs of the buildings so each student could decorate a milk carton to replicate a specific building, chosen for them by a random drawing.
Holland made platforms from corrugated board and the students painted them green and added features such as roads and water. Each class created a book of the reference photographs with students writing descriptions of the buildings they modeled.
“I did the Post Office,” Quinn Overlock, 7, of Waldoboro said. She said she liked making a model of that building because it took two milk cartons to make, and because the Post Office is the place people go to get mail.
