10 things I learned about FDR at the LWH

We learned a lot at Warm Springs GA. Here is the list about what we learned at the Little White House.

1.    We learned how many canes he got which were about 111 canes.

2.    He had a secret way for his kids to go to the pond.

3.    He got in with the bump gate.

4.    All the things in the LWH are the original things he had in the house.

5.    There is a finished version of the painting that was unfinished.

6.    He and Eleanor had different bedrooms.

7.    The employees had to bathe in the basement of the house because they had no tub.

8.    He ate a squirrel in the 1930's.

9.    He got power to the GA people.

10.                  He had a little armrest to help himself get the soup or what ever fell out of the tub.

Flint River Poem and FDR 1/25/13

The Greenfly Orchid! 

I sit here on the ground watching things go by

I get bored at times and I don't think I could last another day

I can be on a tree looking over everything 

I smell good in the evening and don't in the morning

I may not even see tomorrow

Animals running over me

Humans harvesting me 

It is so hard to live everyday

The river floods and I go under and swim 

Its hard to breathe under water, so I go to the top 

I want to go to Hawaii and just lay there in the sun

Look at different things

Do more!

Well I'm still here waiting for a ride to the island

But it still is a good place to live

Its more 3d here then in any movie theater

Maybe I will wait a little longer and see how things work out 

Maybe I will Fly

- Teresa Dominguez        

FDR!

FDR was a strong and funny person. He married Eleanor Roosevelt and they had 6 children. His mother would always want to control his life and be the leader in everything. FDR was in to  politics and so he did, but as he started his career and he was vacation with his family he got polio. This would change his life and the life of his family for ever. He tried his hardest to walk again, but nothing seemed to work. Then he heard about the water of warm springs. It was said that a cripple boy went into the pool and claimed he could walk again, so he decided  to go there and see if he could walk again too. When he got there it was a resort and it fell on hard times, so he bought it and made the first founded polio research station. Mean while at home Eleanor got more confidence and she empowered her self a lot. Eleanor helped him to do more and he over came his polio in his mind. He was president for four terms. He made the New Deal and his research helped lots of people with polio. FDR learned through his life that its better to help other then yourself first.                    

Where The Lilies Bloom! 12/14/12

In reading groups we have been reading “ Where The Lilies Bloom”. A lot of things happened in the book. Mary Call who is the main character made some promises to her sick father before he got, so weak he couldn’t talk. His name was Roy Luther said promise to not let Devola get married to Kiser, don’t tell anyone about my death when I die, be the head of the house hold, and act like he is I am still alive. Devola is Mary Call’s sister and she has a brother and another sister named Romey and Ima Dean. Devola isn’t the smartest girl in the book. This story is about how Mary Call tries to live a normal life and try to keep her promises to her father who has died and provide for her family with all their needs. The themes of the book are Mary Calls problems with trying to provide, her siblings giving her a hard time, and family sticking together. I think this book is kind of sad and funny because Roy Luther dies so Mary Call has to take care of her family and the things they say or do is funny. There might be more on the book soon and please leave a comment and read my poem.

Snow Flake!

I am just like a snowflake

I am different then all of you

You see me and then you see my character

People are just like snowflakes

You all know who you are, but some are afraid to show it

I think we all should show our differences because they are who we are as people

They make us different and more special then the rest

We will fall like them and make mistakes

We all can try hard to make thing better

People want to be cool in a worried way

Be yourself and show how special you are to the world

Snow flakes we all are snowflakes

Be proud of who you are

Be yourself

- Teresa Dominguez  

           

            

Community Service

Last week we went to two different shelters. The first one was the Georgia Justice Project. We learned how they help homeless people who need a lawyer and they don’t have to pay a dime. Although the homeless people have to want to make their life better and they have to do the work too. When we were there we got to draw and color a T-shirt on paper. After that we went to the Genesis Shelter. We got to see how they help homeless families with a newborn under 6 months. They can only stay for 6 months and then they have to move on. They help the parents or grandparents get a job and learn how to live in our city. I think that community service is important because you help the community and for those who are in need. I hope you look at my wordle and leave a comment.

Appalachian Mountains

This week we started learning about the Appalachian Mountains and the people’s way of life. Up there they have to make everything like clothes, quilts, baskets, toys, tools, and instruments. Back in the olden days they had to do this too. There music is around the church and they sing their troubles away. They dance with the rhythm of the music that plays. They tell stories of the olden days and things that happened to them. How it all started was that people from different places came to the Appalachian Mountains because they wanted to be free and to not use things they needed from the outside world. They saw that they could make a path up the little one that was already made, but the only thing was is that the Cherokee lived there. The Cherokee taught them how to farm and hunt in on the land they were on, but a fight for the land broke out. The Cherokee had to move up north until in a few years they would have to move to the west. It was a hard life up there. Everyone was poor and working on farms and other places. When the country needed coal they didn’t give them really any coal. They were very out dated. Now they still live like the ones before them and sing songs. I think that is the way that their history is found. Please read my poem and leave a comment.

Appalachian Mountains!

I have seen it all

How you hunt, farm, play instruments, and mine

I love my home up here

I NEVER WANT TO LEAVE IT

It was hard growing up here

I had to work everyday

So did my family

I work in a coal mine for many years

Never went to school

I would play my troubles a way and get back to work

My friends all died in the mine from the coal

It was cold and dark

I will never forget working with them and in that mine

I missed them then and now

I hope my grand kids will not do the dirty job

I love my home hope I stay here until I am lade here to rest

- Teresa Dominguez    

                         

The Trail of Tears

The Trail of Tears is a path the Cherokee Indians had to go on. How did it begin you ask? Well it all started with the whites and the Indians trying to compromise with each other. The whites said that you will have to be like us if you want any money, land, and if you what protection from us. The Indians agreed to be like the whites. Some of the Indians did not want to be like the whites. They learned how to write, read, farm, they went to school, they went to church, and they had jobs. They wore white mans clothes and lived in homes. A man named Sequoyah made the Cherokee alphabet even though he didn’t know how to read or write. They even had their own government system and used the whites way of government when they made their own, but all these changes were not enough for the whites for the Indians to be just like them. So they started to make a treaty to remove them once and for all. The whites wanted their land for good farming and when gold was discovered there they also wanted gold. This act was called “The Indian Removal Act”. They said you have two years to move or we will force you out.  The Indians didn’t want to move, so they came with a plan of their own. They sent John Ross to speak to the president about it. Well he did get to speak with president Andrew Jackson, but the only thing he said was “ It’s the GA’s and counsels problem not mine.” So they sent many treaties of their own, but they only looked at two of them. After a while of fighting the government John Ross and other people who were trying to help the Indians had to sign the removal. On the day of 1838 three days after the deadline the Indians were forced out of their homes carrying only what they had on them. Then they started their trip up west to Oklahoma. 12,000 out of 16,000 Indians died of coldness or diseases. Only a few made it, but others were not so lucky. That is the story of the Trail of Tears. I hope you see how wrong this removal act was. Maybe today we will treat the Indians of today better then we did  hundreds of years ago.                     

The Trail of Tears!

I have seen death

I have seen war

I have heard many guns

I have to learn the ways of the whites

Read

Eat

Farm

Write

Cloth

Life

Church

School

A Government

I want to be me again

Now we have to leave the land I love

Some people have be tread use

Andrew Jackson too

We sacrificed our life for him

Be tread by our own people

Solders everywhere

They poled me a way from my room

I had a big heavy soft blanket on me

Caring my baby brother in my arms

My mother is holding my hand

Walked for many a mile

My feet ace

Body aces

We travel with out stopping

I cry while my mother holds me and baby brother close

Travel for 7 months

We are cold and people are dying

Hard to survive

We make it to Oklahoma

- Teresa Dominguez            

Dahlonega

This week we went to Dahlonega. We went to a museum and the gold mine. The museum was cool and it had a lot of artifacts. I learned so much at the museum. We learned how they used a machine to crush the rocks to get the gold out and make coins. It was called a stamp mill. We learned how the used a method called Hydraulic mining to chip a way at the easy rocks. I loved the safe full of gold. There were gold coins, gold pieces, and gold dust. The coins were beautiful. We learned how they found how much the gold weighed. The used a scale and weights to see how much it is. Then we went to the gold mine. It was cold and damp. There were bats it the gold mine. They are the Georgia Brown bats and if you wake them up before April then they will die. They would be hungry and in shock from their hibernation mode. They were small, but full grown. Their wings go to about 1 feet long. We learned how the mining carts moved. The mine was like a big battery the iron holder was to hold the wire that was positive. Then the train tracks were the negative and that was not good for the brain. The gold mine was cool with the train tracks and the other tools that were left there. They used a hammer, pick axes, and shovels in the mine. Our guide at the mine is a world champion gold pannier and he can do it blind folded too. He is in the hall of fame. I think that was cool about him. He has 6 kids and he drinks to big jugs of coffee everyday. We panned for gold and I got 3 pieces of gold that is worth 3 dollars. I think this trip was great trip and I think we will have even more fun the next trip. Please leave a comment.