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Elementary Students Celebrate Thanksgiving By Recreating MayFlower
The paper ship stretched the entire length of the elementary school hallway.
First grade students at Westhampton Beach Elementary School took learning out of the textbooks and created a 1,000-foot-long paper replica of the Mayflower earlier this week.
The construction paper ship, which stretches from one end of the hallway at the elementary school to the other, the school district said, provided the perfect opportunity for the charges of Kristen Gafarian, Lynne Marshall, Catharine Nobiletti and Toni Zambito-Arnone to put what they've learned in their studies to visual use.
"Not only did the children learn that the ship was 1,000 feet long, but they also learned about its cargo, the people who sailed the seas to America, and their struggles to survive once here," said the school district.
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"This is the culminating activity to the study of an informational text," said Principal Lisa Slover of the project. "They have labeled the parts of the Mayflower and made it as realistic as possible."
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