Mali Poems And Water Colors By Stony Point Third Graders

Torans start with

Ordinary trees. They’re

Really common

And hold up buildings

Niani people use them to hold

Sand buildings up during the summer rains

By Brandon Wiseman Torans are made of wooden beams that support mud buildings that help the buildings stay up during the summer rains.

Mali has a lot of travelers

Using gold and salt for trading, going through the

Desert—there are a lot of

Caravans--that is the name for travelers

Lots of travelers are coming to Mali

Over the land to

The people of Mali “Do you

Have anything to trade?” they say. By Britt MUDCLOTH is cloth that the Mali people wear that is made out of dyed mud

Boys in the African deserts Of Mali dancing with drumming Malians under a Baobab tree. With A Big audience from a city called Niani. Cage L. A Baobab tree is a tree that only grows in Africa.

Mansa And his clans at Night Spotted A caravan of traders traveling to Mali to trade for salt and gold. Chandler mansa = ruler of all clans

Camels take people Around the Country of Mali Many camels Even carry bags on their hump backs. They Lay down to take a break and stop at the Niger River. They can drink twenty–five gallons of water at a time A camel is a mammal with two humps (sometimes one) on their back. They live in Mali. They take people around and they drink a lot of water. By Chloe

Dung from elephants lie in the June sand around the city of Timbuktu Every elephant in the herd ambles to the Niger River to cool off. Gold Necklaces are traded Every day at the market. Djenne is a city in Africa Cole

\ Gold, the source that kept Mali alive trading and trading “Ono” the tribe exclaimed and traded for Luxury items, food, water, and Drums Ono is a Swahili word

Dalton

K ings have griots and the griots are for

I nspiring the king to do the right thing but

Now it’s time to die. Mansa Musa dies in 1332 and all the

Griots were

Sad, sad, sad but they had to go on with life

By:DanielJ.Hillard Kings are people who rule over a lot of people.

Sundiata, the Lion King of Mali,

Under a baobob tree, next to the

Niger River a griot is

Drumming the story of the Lion King.

It is a famous story in the country of Mali

As time passed Sundiata became big and strong

The lion and the buffalo had a big problem

A n arrow with a rooster’s spur defeated the buffalo. By DeAndre Bright Sundiata- Lion King of Mali. Griot - Storyteller

Dads weaving cloth for bogolanfini

Every day in Ancient Mali Little children watch Their fathers working in

Africa Delta is a place where a river carries a lot of fertile soil in its waters. By Franklin Morris

Sitting in the sand in an indigo bogolanfini in Timbuktu gazing At some lions they do not move Looking at some gazelles in the desert The lions just stay there staring at the gazelles Bogolanfini is a mud cloth. By Hailey Gelzer

Nearly every Malian enjoys the Niger River

It is the best road because of its efficient ways

Generally it is great to travel and the

Elephants love it too, but not just for traveling. The Niger

River is one of the most famous rivers, the Niger brings Mali life-giving water and fertile soil to grow crops! By Hannah NIGER, a really important river and very long, it stretches over 2,500miles

(4,000 km). That is the distance from Washington D.C to California, that’s a long way!

Mali has lions, cheetahs, leopards and camels. Malians used Animals for food, transportation and clothes Lots of animals were used for those reasons In Mali all animals need water. Mali is a country in Africa Marie C. Schneider

Hot sun On hot sand, walking To Mali by Marquis

Dorcas gazelle skin on a drum

Roaring like thunder

Under a baobab tree.

Monkey dancing to the beat

Salt all around in Taghaza, gold in all the west.

Parker Miller

Drums an African percussion instrument

Explorers & Native Cultures

Paintings & Paragraphs

By Stony Point Third Graders

Hernando de Soto 1500?-1542

By Franklin Morris

Hernando de Soto was a Spanish warrior who discovered new lands. He also spent 4 years searching for gold and silver. He was one of the richest men in Spain. De Soto was born in Barcarrota (1500?-1542) and his crew was made up of about 1,000 men. De Soto landed on the west coast of Florida in 1539 and also discovered the Mississippi River in 1541. De Soto was an explorer for 13 years. He served under Francisco Pizarro. De Soto left Spain in 1532 and returned in 1537. His enemy was the Chickasaw people. The Chickasaw people lived on the west side of the Mississippi River. He must have had an interesting life.

Mayan Culture

300-900 A.D.

Mayan people kept spider monkeys as their pets. They also built big pyramids. Maya might sound like a name, but it is a great culture. They lived in central America. They wore animal skin for clothing. Hernando De Soto, a Spanish explorer, destroyed their culture. By Brandon

Bartholomew Dias

By: Brittany Murphy

Bartholomew Dias died during an expedition. He got lost in the sea, near the Cape of Good Hope. Bartholomew Dias was born in 1457 and he died in 1500. In 1488 Dias sailed near South America, on his way to Africa and to the Cape of Good Hope. He was a great Portuguese explorer.

The Aztecs

By: Cage O. Lambert The Aztec times lasted from 1100-1600 AD. They lived in the region that is now Mexico. Art was considered carved stone, and their houses were made of wattle plastered with mud. They also built one of the largest cities in the world with a temple that was more than 164 feet tall. Hernan Cortez, a Spanish explorer, conquered the Aztecs. How many more years did their empire survive than the United States so far?

Leif Erickson There was once a famous Viking named Leif Erickson. Leif was an explorer like Christopher Columbus. He started to explore after the year 986 and before the year 1001. He was important because he discovered new places where people hadn’t been before, like North America. Leif made landfalls at Helluland, Markland, and Vinland (now called Newfoundland). After he discovered Vinland, he lived there for a short time, until Native Americans attacked him. He escaped and never went back to Vinland again. by Chandler

The Inca Empire

1438-1532 AD By: Chloe Herring

The people of the Inca Empire built extravagant houses. They also had

gold, China and the Malians had gold too. The Inca Empire had an emperor and Malians and Romans had emperors too. Atahualpa, the emperor, offered to give Pizzaro, a Spanish explorer, a room filled with gold in exchange for his freedom. But Pizzaro killed the Inca emperor because he wanted to keep the room filled with gold. The Inca Empire fell apart and the Spanish became the new rulers of Peru. The Inca Empire lasted from 1438–1532 AD.

Francisco Pizzaro By Cole S. Dickerson

Did you know Francisco Pizzaro led a group of Spaniards who

captured and destroyed a whole culture? Francisco Pizzaro was a Spanish conquistador who traveled through much of the Pacific coast along Peru looking for gold and land with 180 men and 37 horses. Pizzaro, his men, and Hernando de Soto arrived at Cajamarca in 1533. They captured the Incan emperor, Atahualpa and killed over 1,000 of the Inca and destroyed their culture. Now that you have read this passage on Francisco Pizzaro, you can decide for yourself, if he was a hero, like the Spanish thought, or a villain, as the Inca thought.

Hernando Cortez

1485-1547 By. Daniel J. Hillard

Hernando Cortez was inspired by sailing. Cortez was from Spain, like Christopher Columbus! He wanted gold from the Aztec Empire in Mexico. He made them think he was a god and he conquered the Aztec Empire with his warriors and weapons. Some people think Hernando Cortez was a great warrior.

Juan Ponce DeLeon

1466 – 1521 AD By DeAndre Bright

Juan Ponce DeLeon sailed with the great Christopher Columbus. He was the first Spanish explorer to set foot on Florida. He and his men where looking for the legendary fountain of youth. In the river he found lots of gold. He was the first person to set foot on the Gulf Stream. He died in Florida in 1521.

Jaque Cartier By Hannah Harper

You probably think Jaque sounds like a prince name but

he is a famous French sailor out to claim a new land for France, in 1535, and he did so in Canada. Jaque set out in 2 ships because he had a whole lot of men. He was born in1491 and died in1557. He mistook a sea for a bay and things got ugly. Man it must have been fun to have a life like Jaque Cartier did!!!

Ferdinand Magellan 1480-1521

By: Marie C. Schneider Ferdinand Magellan was the first sailor who sailed around the world. Ferdinand Magellan sailed for Charles the First. When Ferdinand Magellan was preparing for a voyage he had 1,000 lances, 60 crossbows 120 spears, and cannons. On Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage he ate penguins and seals. Ferdinand Magellan also joined the Portuguese navy. I hope you learned some interesting facts about Ferdinand Magellan.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

COLUMBUS SAILED THREE (3) SHIPS. HE SAILED

ACROSS THE WATER.

BY: MARQUIS

Christopher Newport

1560?-1617 Do you know anyone who has sailed to find riches? Instead of finding riches Christopher Newport founded Jamestown. Christopher Newport was an English privateer (a commander of a ship privately owned). As the commander of three ships, the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, Newport sailed for England’s King. In 1609, Newport made a fourth trip to America and was shipwrecked off of the Bermuda Islands. He died in Java (Indonesia) in 1617 on a voyage to the East Indies.

By: Hailey

Amerigo Vespucci

By: Parker Miller

Amerigo Vespucci might sound silly, but he was a great Italian explorer. He sailed after Christopher Columbus. The continents of North and South America were named for him in 1507 because Amerigo Vespucci realized that America was not part of Asia, but a new world.

Chickasaw People By Dalton McWilliams

The Chickasaw people were divided into two groups named

Choctaw and Chickasaw. The Chickasaw people discovered the Mississippi River. They lived on its banks for years. From 1540-1541 the Chickasaw people had a war with an expedition of Spanish treasure seekers led by a man named Hernando Desoto. I hope you want to learn more about the Chickasaw people.