Naperville Christian Academy presents History Living Wax Museum

While much of modern education views history as a thing of the past, Naperville Christian Academy treasures it.

As a classical school, Naperville Christian believes everything we are as a nation, a culture and a society is a product of those people and civilizations who came before us, and we have much to learn from them.

At Naperville Christian, students study history chronologically, starting with the beginning of recorded history in first grade and finishing with modern history in seventh grade before moving on to American government in eighth grade and a deeper study of the whole timeline over again in ninth through 12th grade, reading ancient texts and primary sources.

The grammar school closes out each school year with a History Living Wax Museum to showcase all the students have learned.

Each student chooses a historical figure, does extensive research, builds a presentation board, devises a costume and prepares to answer questions in character. Visitors tour the museum with the students first "frozen" as wax statues and then the figures come to life to interact with them.

First-graders this year represented first civilizations; second-graders represented ancient Greece and Rome; third-graders represented Medieval times; fourth- and fifth-graders represented the Age of Enlightenment and revolution.

Naperville Christian is enrolling for preschool through 12th grade. For details, visit www.ncaclassical.org.