This year in school we are using Layers of Learning year 4. The second two weeks of school we did unit 2. Our history topic was the expanding nation.

We added to our timeline. The pages weren’t quite as full as last unit’s.

We learned about Daniel Boone.

We went outside and looked for animal tracks. Adrian was very excited to find a pretty feather.

We learned about the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

We learned about several people from that time period in history and made puppets of them.

We learned about President James Monroe.

We learned about slavery and made a shadow picture of a cotton field.

We learned about Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin.

We learned about the Trail of Tears.

We learned about John Ross.

And we learned about the Battle of the Alamo.