As part of their study of ancient China, the sixth-grade students of Thomas Jefferson Middle School created replicas of the famous terra cotta soldiers discovered in 1974 at Xian in China. Six thousand life-size terra cotta figures were found when local farmers were digging a well broke into a pit containing the figures. This project was inspired by sixth-grade Social Studies teacher Karen Butler. Butler traveled to China last summer and visited the actual excavation pit where the soldiers were found. The invasion took place on the Teaneck Road Bridge in front of TJ on June 19 at 2 p.m.