Thursday, August 28, 2014

Europe Meets America





Europe meets America

Christopher Columbus was not the first to cross the Atlantic to reach America. When he  accidentally landed in 1492, the discovery made explorers sail to search for gold. This changed the land forever. Many explorers invaded the the land with greed and treated the natives cruelly. Some believed a legend about a city of gold in El,Dorado. Others believed there was a magical  fountain of youth. The Spanish eventually claimed most of the southwestern U.S.A . Over time, Native Americans all over were being pushed off their continent by Europeans.    

Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Mark Twain



Mark Twain

Mark Twain was born in 1835 in Missouri. His dad died when he was 12. When he was 21, he wrote "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". He made thousands of writings and became a famous writer. He has an
awesome mustache.  His real name was Samuel Clemens. In 1862, he became a reporter. He had three dogs: I know, You know, and Don't know. He also had three cats: Flush, Dickens, and Willy. Once he wrote a story called, "Jim Smiley and his Jumping Frog". He smoked alot. Once he said, "If you cant smoke in heaven, I shall not go". In 1870, he got married to Livy. Together, they had four children. In 1904, Livy Died. Mark Twain died April 21, 1910 at the age of 74. He was buried in Elmira, New York.

Friday, August 22, 2014

Lincoln



Abraham Lincoln 

Lincoln was born in Kentucky 1809. When Lincoln was just 7 he wanted to go to school. He wanted to learn how to read and write although his parents didn't know how. He was 9 years old when his mother died. When he was 21 he left his family and built a house in Illinois. He studied to be a lawyer. Lincoln married a women named Mary when he was 33. They had four boys: Robert, Edward, William, and Tad. Before the elections Lincoln got a letter from a girl saying he should grow a beard. He did grow a beard and got elected in 1861. lots of states wanted to leave the U.S. so Lincoln had to find a General and he found one named Grant. After 2 years of fighting Lincoln  had won! He had freed some of slaves. A week later he and his family went to a theater. After an hour a man named booth shot Lincoln in the back of  his head. He died the next morning.

Friday, August 15, 2014

Christopher Columbus



Christopher Columbus

       In the 1400s, Europeans wanted riches from the east Indies. Christopher Columbus believed the earth was round so he could reach the east by sailing west. He repetitively coaxed the king and queen to give him three ships to sail in the sea of darkness. The people thought the sea was too wide to cross or he would be eerily eaten by sea monsters. On October 12, 1952, the sailors spotted land. When they were ashore, men very different from Europeans emerged from the bushes. Columbus called them Indians and thought he was in the Indies. He had reached a place Europeans knew nothing about-the Americas.   

 

Monday, August 4, 2014

Moses




Moses
by 
Lily

One day, a baby boy was born. Two weeks later, armies come to kill all the boys. The mother puts the baby in a basket and she runs to the river with the basket. His mother put him in the river. Then the princess found him and kept him and called him

Moses. The princess asked Moses's mom to come help raise him but for she did not know that was his mom. After Moses grew up, he saw a Hebrew beating a slave and then he killed him and ran away and found a bush on fire but it wasn't burning and he went to see it then God spoke to him I am the great I am and you shall tell Pharaoh to let my people go and Moses went. Pharaoh  said no many times and the punishment got worst and worst finally he said the people could go and they went. there was a river Moses parted the river. Pharaoh's men were behind them but they got away just in time and Pharaoh got wiped out.  
The End

Friday, July 25, 2014

Fun with baking





Baking with my neighbors

by 
Lily peters

Yesterday, my neighbors Celine and Julian came over and we were playing Disney Infinity. My turn was over so I went to play with Celine. Then I told her I wanted to cook. We made our own kind of food so we got the ingredients. We called it Chocolateya. It was amazing!! It was so much fun. 


Ingredients

  1. flour
  2. 2 eggs
  3. powdered sugar
  4. milk
  5. Hershey's syrup  
Instructions
Get a big bowl and pour 1 cup of flour
then crack the two eggs. next you pour
1 cup of powdered sugar. after you pour 
1/4 of milk. last you put in LOTS of Hershey's syrup
then put the oven to 350 degrees and put it in the oven
for 40 minutes.  

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Noah and the ark



Noah And The Ark
by
Lily Peters

Before 3,000 B.C , there was Noah. Noah loved GOD and Noah praised God. Noah had three sons Shem Ham and Japhith. One day, GOD talked to Noah. He told Noah to build an ark. GOD also told Noah two of every animal in the ark. God said there was going to be world wide flood. Noah got to work right away. The other people thought Noah was crazy. Noah didn't like it but he kept building. It Noah 120 years to build the ark. When he was done he put two of every animal in the ark. Then It rained and rained for forty days and nights. Noah was on the ark 102 days. At Noah sent a dove to see if there land. the next day it came back with nothing. Noah sent the dove again. Again it came back but with a clover. At once Noah knew there was land. They got of the ark. Noah lived there with his wife and children. God made a sign that he would never flood the world again with a rainbow.