Second graders at Liberty Elementary School were in for a wild west treat on Friday, Feb. 20, as each homeroom participated in a cosplay day on the old frontier to celebrate reaching the end of the U.S. Westward Expansion unit. 

Dressed in pioneer and cowboy/cowgirl-wear, teachers and students marked the end of their most recent quarter unit, which explored themes of the "Old West" — discovering the geography, history, folklore and culture associated with the forward wave of American expansion into today's western states through the 1800s. 

Alongside fun activities including classic cornbread tasting, tasting dried fruit treats popular with explorers, building paper covered wagons, piecing together storylines about the Pony Express and making homemade butter, students truly got a sampling of what roughing it along the Oregon Trail and wild west felt like!