In September, I wrote a blog post about a wonderful teacher who came up with the President in a Bag idea and inspired us to implement that idea into our study of the American Presidents. You can read about her here, in our first President in a Bag - George Washington.
As you can see, one of our cats wouldn't get out of the picture. Everyone loves American History in our house! So, here are the five items B selected to represent our 3rd president, Thomas Jefferson:
#1 A Pen. Thomas Jefferson was the author of the Declaration of Independence.
#2 A Wallet. Thomas Jefferson oversaw the purchase of the Louisiana Purchase during his presidency.
#3 A Map of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson was born in Virginia, he served as Governor of Virginia and his father, Peter Jefferson, a surveyor, helped create the 1st map of Virginia.
#4 A book. Thomas Jefferson wanted to create a public university that was not associated with a church. In order to fund the building of The University of Virginia, he sold his personal book collection to the Library of Congress.
#5 A Rock. Thomas Jefferson is one of four presidents depicted on Mount Rushmore, as a memorial to his contribution to expanding the United States.
President Jefferson in a bag was pulling teeth from B. John Adams is his favorite president (so far), so he wasn't really interested in moving onto the next one. Although, when he was reading about Jefferson, he would call out to me facts that he found cool or amazing. But he dragged his feet on the bag and I had to prompt him.
The hubs and I love when he presents his items to us because we are learning new facts. B reads books about each president on his own, so we don't know everything he does. Hopefully his lack of enthusiasm over this president won't continue through the rest...
Read about our other Presidents in a Bag in these posts:
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