presents are delivered local

by the center. E. T. Hamil-

ton raised 350 gifts and in

all 2,000 gifts was collected

for the center. Hamilton

Parents facility associate

provides things for families

in need and raise money for

family need. The age range

for the children receiving

the gifts is newborn to sev-

enteen. The children receive

the gifts before Christmas.

HPFA does participate in

some events each year. The

HPFA is inspired by the

book the giving tree. We

need to all give back.

At E.T. Hamilton

Elementary school in Voor-

hees NJ, they collected gifts

during 2014 holiday seasons

for the less fortunate. Ham-

ilton wants to help other

people because everybody

should give back to the peo-

ple who don’t have what we

have. The leader, Sonia Pen-

nington started the giving

tree. Sonia gets the names

on a tag and the students

receive the tag. Also the

students bring them back to

school and finally they give

the gifts. E.T. Hamilton gets

the information about the

children contacting a differ-

ent center for the informa-

tion. The center contacts the

family in need.

The children that

receive the gifts live in

Camden Family Success

Center and Clementine

Family Success Center. The

Did you know a bill

can become a law? If not

than listen up. The three

branches are legislative,

judicial, and executive. The

legislative branch makes the

laws. To make a law a citi-

zen must develop an idea

for a bill. The citizens bring

the idea to the legislative

branch. Members of the

General Assembly or the

State Senate propose the

bill. The General Assembly

vote to approve the bill.

Then the bill goes to the

governor. The governor

signs the bill or the gover-

nor vetoes the bill. Vetoes

means to reject. If the bill is

vetoed, another vote can

be taken. If 27 Senators and

54 General Assembly mem-

bers vote to approve it, the

bill becomes a law. Would

you take the time to make

a bill?

We should give back

Giving Tree

I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

Giving Tree 1

Who am I 2

A new dance

season

4

Dog or cat 6

Penny debate 5

Cracking the

German code

8

Marvelous

migration

9

How a Bill becomes a Law

E T H A M I L T O N The Shekhter Gazette

2 0 1 4 — 2 0 1 5 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

F A V I O R T E

4 T H

G R A D E

M E M O R I E S :

Field trip Frank-

lin Instituted

Getting iPads

becoming a one

on one class-

room

BEST teacher

ever Mrs. Bland

and Mrs. Wegner

Mrs. Bland

dancing around

in the classroom

Mrs. Bland’s

morning teacher

The Duo’s magic

show

P A G E 2

Who are you ?

This Is Who I Am

Political Map

Who am I

Many ways to define me would include sweet, intell igent, responsible, and athletic. I am sweet because I don’t want anybody to be heart or be upset. People think I ’m intell igent because I wor k hard for what

Many ways to

define me would in-

clude sweet, intelli-

gent, responsible,

and athletic. I am

sweet because I

don’t want anybody

to be hurt or be up-

set. People think I’m

intelligent because I

work hard for what I

want. My parents

think I’m responsi-

ble because I don’t

joke around with

school or anything as

important as school.

I’m athletic because

I’m good at sports

and I play games

correctly and I don’t

change the rules.

These are my per-

sonality traits and

why I think these are

my personality traits.

When I feel happy I

think of these things

dancing, having fam-

ily time, learning,

and, writing!! I love

dancing because

when you dance you

can let lose and show

your real personality

and just lets you ex-

plore who you really

are dancing puts a

smile on my face.

Family time is the

best time because I

got to spend time

with my family and

there’s nothing I

rather do then spend

time with my family.

I love learning be-

cause when you

learn you get smarter

and smarter and

that’s just better for

the brain. I love writ-

ing because it’s the

best thing ever.

A lot of my

favorite things are

shoes, pets, and mu-

sic. I love shoes be-

cause there are lots

of pairs to wear. I

also like pets. I have

one dog. I also like

music. My favorite

artist is Arianna Gra-

nada and her song

Bang-bang. Some

other of my favorite

things are ice cream

and spaghetti.

cal maps show in-

formation such as

cites, capitals,

states, countries,

and borders. You

would use a politi-

cal map to see what

borders North Da-

A map is a

tool to find in-

formation. There

are four types of

maps: political,

physical, trans-

portation, and

historical. Politi-

kota. This is just

one type of map,

there are other

maps that show dif-

ferent information.

What’s

your favor-

ite map

T H E S H E K H T E R G A Z E T T E

Layers of the Earth

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

Scientists study

earthquakes to learn more

about the Earth. An earth-

quake is a movement or vi-

bration caused by the release

of stored energy in the crust.

A seismograph is an instru-

ment used by scientists to

record how strong or how

weak an earthquake is.

There are four

layers in the

Earth the crust,

mantle, inner

core, and the

outer core.

The

crust is the

Earth’s outer most layers,

and we live on it. The crust is

also the thinnest layer, and it

is a solid rock. In this layer it

is deeper under continents

than oceans.

The next layer is the

mantle. The mantle is a layer

of rock lying below the crust,

and it is the thickest layer.

The mantle allows tectonic

plates to slowly move, and

rocks move or flow due to

pressure and high tempera-

tures.

There is one last

layer, the core. The core is

dived into two parts the outer

core and the inner core. The

outer core is totally liquid.

The liquid is melted iron.

The inner core is a solid

sphere. The inner core spins

at a different rate then the

rest of the plants. Scientists

still study earthquakes.

the state.

The judicial branch is

another one of the three

branches. Leading the judicial

branch of the government is the

Supreme Court. The Supreme

Court has nine judges known

as justice. The Supreme Court

justice holds their positions for

life. The Supreme Court is the

most powerful court in the

United States. It is their job to

make sure that the laws of the

United States agree with the

constitution.

The executive branch

is the last branch. The execu-

tive branch has to do with en-

forcing the laws, and congress

makes and up holds the consti-

tution. The executive branch is

responsible for printing money,

and making sure the food we

buy at our supermarket is safe.

The executive branch is so

Our government is

made of three branches. The

three branches are legislative,

judicial, and executive. The

legislative has to do with law-

making and taxes. The judicial

helps preserve the system of

checks and balances. The ex-

ecutive branch has to do with

enforcing the laws.

The legislative branch

is one of the three branches.

The congress is split into two

groups or houses. The first

house is called Senate. The

second house is called Repre-

sentative. The legislative

branch has to do with lawmak-

ing. This branch makes laws

and collects taxes, and it can

declare war. The congress must

work with the other two

branches of government to do

its job. Senators and Represen-

tative of the legislative branch

are elected by the citizens of

large that it is divided into de-

partments. The president is

only the lead of the executive

branch.

There is also checks

and balances which is when

one branch watches over an-

other branch. When the presi-

dent from the executive branch

names certain people for im-

portant jobs, the senate from

the legislative branch approves

or rejects those people. The

legislative branch makes the

laws, but the judicial branch

can keep the law from moving

forward. One part of the legis-

lative branch chooses judges in

the judicial branch, it can stop

the president veto. The presi-

dent acts as the head of all

these branches but he is really

not.

These are

the four

layers of

the earth

Government

Do you know

the layers of

the Earth?

P A G E 4

Would you keep

the penny or get

ride of the penny?

Will I solve my prob-

lem ?

Penny Debate

A New Dance Season In 2007 I had

my first dance class ever. My dance teachers name was Mrs. Mandy. I was two years old and I went to Jazz Unlimited. The styles I did were ballet and tap. I

liked ballet better than tap because ballet doesn’t make much noise and it takes more work. I had many dif-ferent feelings about dance. I was nervous, determined, and ex-cited. All these feelings were real! I was nervous be-cause I thought I would walk into the wrong

classroom or forget my teacher’s name. I also didn’t have any friends in my dance class. I was determined that I would get through the dance class, and I would like dance and keep doing dance. I was also excited be-cause I knew I would like dance. At my house I would always dance around. I was excited because the reviews of my teacher were amazing. I know this would be a great dance year! The most chal-

lenging thing at dance

was remembering what

name went with what

move. I had a helper to

help us, but that still

didn’t help me. My

mom said to me I had

to write down every-

thing I learned in class

and practice at home

and that helped. My

feelings changed over

time because I became

a better dancer by writ-

ing down what I did in

class and practicing at

home. My friends and I

at Jazz Unlimited got

closer and closer and

we became better

friends. Even today at

the age of nine. I still

go to Jazz Unlimited.

cent penny. In the video,

Waiting for Change, it

also stated that Canada

got rid of their penny and

they are like the USA.

The United States is los-

ing money because of the

penny. The U.S. would

be getting more money if

we got rid of the penny.

Even though only 22 %

of Americans want to get

rid of the penny it is still

a good idea to get rid of

the penny. At first when I

If you haven’t

heard about the penny

debate then keep listen-

ing. I think we should get

rid of the penny because

according to the video

Waiting for Change

we are losing 27 bil-

lion dollarsin 2010,

and in 2011 we lost 60

million dollars for pro-

ducing the penny. In

the article The Penny

Debate it said that it

cost 2.4 cents to make a 1

read the article I thought

we should keep the

penny but know I think

the opposite we should

get rid of the penny. All

of the 60 million dollars

we are losing can go to

college of food and shel-

ter not to make this

worthless penny. What

do you think we should

do keep the penny or get

rid of the penny?

How does

the Penny

help us?

T H E S H E K H T E R G A Z E T T E

The Earth, Sun, and Moon

P A G E 5 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

Did you know that the Earth, Sun, and Moon are part of our so-lar system? The Earth rotates or spins every 24 hours and that causes day and night. The Earth also revolves, Revolves means to go

around a object once. It takes one year or 365 ¼ days to go around the sun once. The Earth is tilted on its axis at a 23.5 degree angle, and that causes the sea-sons: Summer, Winter, Spring, and Fall. The Earth travels on an el-lipse shaped orbit around the sun.

The moon is Earths nearest neighbor. The moon also rotates and re-volves around the Earth, and that causes the

Phases of the moon. The gravity from the Earth keeps the moon close to Earth. The sun is the

center of our solar sys-

tem, and it produces

heat and light energy.

The sun is a hot body of

gas, and it is a star.

Every day you can look

in the sky and know

what’s happening be-

tween the Earth, Sun,

and Moon.

One of the three

states of matter is a solid. A

solid has a definite shape

and takes up a definite

amount of space. Solids are

made of particles. The par-

ticles are packed tightly.

They also vibrate. Exam-

ples of a solid are a block

or book.

Also a liquid is one

of the three states of matter.

A liquid doesn’t have a

definite shape it takes the

shape of a container. The

liquid has a fixed or defi-

nite amount. Also like the

solid the liquid is made of

particles. The particles

move more than they do

than a solid but still move

slowly. Some examples are

milk or juice.

The last state of

matter is gas. Gas doesn’t

have a definite shape it

takes the shape of anything.

It doesn’t have a definite a

definite amount of space.

Gas is made of particles.

The particles move freely

and move very free. Some

examples of a gas are

helium, neon, and oxy-

gen. All the states of

matter are really interest-

ing.

Do you know the

states of matter? Matter is

anything that takes up space

and has mass. There are three

states of matter solid, liquid,

and gas. A property is char-

acteristic of something that

you can observe. The differ-

ent types of properties are

color, texture, shape, hard-

ness, and buoyancy. Buoy-

ancy is the upward force of

water, another liquid, of air

that keeps things a float.

Mass is the amount making

up an object. Mass is meas-

ured in units called kilograms

or grams. An instrument

called a Balance-Pan is used

to measure mass.

Do you

know

about the

states of

matter?

States of Matter

Are you a solid

liquid or a gas?

P A G E 6

One Country Five Regions The U.S is so

big that it is split into

five regions! The five

regions are the North-

east, Southeast, South-

west, West, and Middle

– West. A region is a

place that has common

features that separate it

from other areas. Land-

forms and climate also

sets them apart from

other regions. Exam-

ples of landforms are

mountains, plains, and

hills. Climate is a pat-

tern of weather over

many years. Climate

plays a big role in our

lives.

New Jersey is

in the Northeast region.

The Northeast region

experiences all four

seasons’ winter, spring,

summer, and fall. The

Northeast has the

Coastal Plains which is

a flat low land along

the edge of the Atlantic

Ocean. The Appala-

chian Mountains is the

oldest mountain in the

world and is in almost

all of the

states in

the North-

east. Yet

today the

Appala-

chian are

not very

high. Gla-

ciers

helped shape the land

of the Northeast. The

Northeast is split into

the New England

States and the Middle

Atlantic States. There

are 11 states in the

Northeast. The first

Native Americans to

come to the Northeast

were farmers.

If you travel

south of the Northeast

you will reach the

Southeast. It is warm

all year in the South-

east because this region

is close to the equator.

The Southeast is criss-

crossed with rivers it

also has the largest ar-

eas of the swamps,

wetlands, bayous,

marshes, and bays

cover the Southeast.

For an example the Ev-

erglades are found in

the southeast. The

Davis Bayou is in the

Southeast. The Davis

Bayou – is a slow mov-

ing stream. Most of the

Southeast region has

the coastal plains.

When most settlers

came they ran into wa-

terfalls. There are 12

states in the Southeast.

The Southeast is a very

interesting region!

In the Middle

of the United States is

the Middle -West. The

Middle West produces

corn and wheat. In this

region it is made up of

the Interior Plain. The

Great Plains is in the

Mid-West. It has cold

winters, hot summer.

The Mid-West also has

the Central Plains is in

the east, it has low ele-

vation, and it produces

corn. Europeans came

for jobs when the Mid-

dle West was being

developed. The Mid-

West was growing very

fast.

The Southwest

shares the Great Plains

with the Mid-West.

The Southwest is

mostly made up of

high plateaus, plains,

and deserts. The Rocky

Mountains appear in

this region as well as

the West. One of the

most famous landforms

in this region is the

Grand Canyon. People

in the Southwest hope

to be rich. The South-

west is infused by dif-

ferent groups living

there. There are ancient

drawings in the South-

west.

T H E S H E K H T E R G A Z E T T E

What region

do you live in ?

Dog or Cat?

P A G E 7 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

If you’re looking to getting a dog is one of the most popular pets in the USA 68 million people own dogs. Dogs can keep you healthier. It can also keep you safe, and give you better exercise, also a dog can give you company and friends. The Dog can protect you and make sure your safe. I have one dog named Jackie. My opinion is that a dog is the best pet for someone to have. In the article it states that when dog own-ers get sick they recover faster than other people Studies show dog owners

are also less likely to get or don’t get sick at all. I feel that with my dog I am healthier. Safety is also impor-tant. In the article it states that dogs bark when danger comes. This amazing pet also can scare of intruders. Special dogs can also sniff out bombs or drugs. The dog can also help disabled by helping them cross the street, get home safely and help them in their houses. I always feel safer when I am home with my dog because I know she can protect me. In the article it states that dogs can keep you in shape because when you run with the dog it keeps you in shape and healthy. Running with this fabulous creature also strengthens your bones. Walking the dog can keep you healthier and your dog

healthier. In my opinion a dog can keep you in shape. My brother and I Walk the dog everyday and that keep us healthier. A dog can keep you companion ship and friends. In the article it states that dogs are great listeners. They also are great for liv-ing alone or someone who needs company. Most dogs are curios and want to meet different people all the time. Dogs are good conversation starters they can help you meet a new best friend. My dog is my number on e best friend and she keeps me company. can keep you in shape. Pets

also give you company and

friends. Protecting an

owner is another great

quality dogs pervade. So

what do you choose a dog

or cat?

life and we're owned like property. On the other hand indentured servants worked for 3-7 years, and then they were free. Indentured ser-vants and slaves were both part of a family. Except in-dentured servants were treated like family. Slaves were not treated like family. Indentured servants and slaves booth were fed and had a roof over their head, but Indentured servants

Do you know the difference between inden-tured servants and slaves they were brought to the New World to devolve the New World? Indentured Servants came from Europe, and head the choice to go to the New World, however the slaves weren't on Africa and were forced to go to the New World. Indentured servants and slaves both had to work hard. Slaves had to work for

where fed better meals and lived in a nicer home. Inden-tured servants were taught education. Slaves were not taught education. Indentured servants learned any skills there master knew. Slaves were not taught any skills there master knew. Would you like to be an indentured servants or a slave.

Indentured Servants and Slaves

Was it better to be

a indentured ser-

vant or slave?

What’s your

favorite animal

P A G E 8

Did they find the

ancient book?

Would you like to be

a Polar bear or a

Kodiak Bear?

The Ancient Book

Cracking the German Code

Polar Bears and Kodiak Bears Do you know the

difference between Polar

bears and Kodiak bears?

Polar bears and Kodiak

bears both have fur. Polar

bears have white fur so they

can camouflage because

they live in a place with

snow and ice. Kodiak bears

have yellow-brown fur so

they can camouflage too.

Both bears live in cold cli-

mates. Polar bears live in

the North Pole. Kodiak

bears live in Alaska and in

Canada. Polar bears are

eight feet long, and weigh

about half a ton. Kodiak

bears are nine feet long, and

weigh three quarters of a

ton. Kodiak bears are the

biggest bears in the world.

Polar bears eat fish, seals,

walrus, and plants. Kodiak

bears eat fish, salmon,

plants, insects, roots, and

mice. Both bears live by the

seacoast. Polar bears live by

near the North Pole. Kodiak

bears live by the seacoast

on islands in Alaska and

Canada. What do you think

is better a polar bear or a

Kodiak bear?

working model of the

Enigma Polish code break-

ers spent a year studying

the machine. Alan turning

saw that many messages

included the same words

in the same places. Aland

called these repeated

words cribs. In 1942 the

Americans included a Ger-

Do you know how the

British broke the German

code in World War II? If

you haven’t than listen up.

There was a machine

called the Enigma. Enigma

means mystery. The

Enigma looked like a type-

writer. Marian Rejewski

figured out how to make a

man U-Boat. The U-Boat

had German codebooks.

The allied powers sent the

information to the British

government witch lead

them to breaking the Ger-

man code.

need a translator because

they didn’t speak English

they spoke French. The

people found a map in the

sand that led them to the

temple were the ancient

book was held. When they

got there the book was

linked to the ground. The

people couldn’t get it out.

They were getting furious.

Finally, they got the ancient

book out of the chains. Eve-

rybody was excited. It was

a triumph for the French.

They couldn’t wait to read

the book. It was the end to a

very good adventure.

A long time ago there were

scholars and seekers com-

ing to uncover the ancient

book. No one has ever went

to find the ancient book

before because there were

rumors that it is very harsh

to get there and the sand

you would walk on will

burn your feet. The French

were not afraid, but they did

Did they

crack the

German

code?

T H E S H E K H T E R G A Z E T T E

Marvelous Migration

P A G E 9 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

Do you know how

Caribou, Bats, and Monarch

Butterflies migrate? Migration

is when animals travel from

one place to another. Animals

migrate because they are

searching for food in a warmer

climate.

Caribou are one of the

animals that migrate. They are

mammals. Male and female

caribou have antlers, they are

known as reindeer. Caribou

males are three to five feet

long, and way up to 600

pounds! WOW that’s a lot!

About 500,000 caribou live in

a herd. Caribou migrate for

food. Caribou live in the Taiga

or the evergreen forest until

the end of winter. They live in

the Tundra during spring and

summer. Caribou migrate for

food. In winter they eat lichen

and in summer they eat flower

buds and grass.

Caribou have preda-

tors. Some predators are mos-

quitoes. Mosquitoes are preda-

tors of the caribou because

they take a quart of blood

weekly. This makes the cari-

bou slower and weaker. To

avoid mosquitoes they find a

breeze, wade in water, and

stand close together. The mos-

quitoes die out in August.

Bats are mammals that fly. Bats have different

body parts than

humans. There

body parts are

hands, feet, web

like skin for

wings, and their

fingers to help the

fly in different

directions. Bats hang upside

down. They spend time

grooming there selves. How

they do that: hold on to branch

with one foot and use other

foot to clean themselves.

Mexican-free tailed

bats are a type of bats that mi-

grate. They fly south to Mex-

ico in the spring, and move

back to Texas when spring

ends. Mexican-free tailed bats

have newborns. The females

go to nursing caves to give

birth. The newborns live there.

That’s where the mothers care

for the newborns.

Some other bats are

Silver-haired bats, Hoary bats,

and Red bats. In spring they

live in northern United States

and Canada. Silver-haired bats

live in southern United States

during winter. Hoary bats and

Red bats live in Central Amer-

ica during winter.

Creatures of the Night

are another type of bats. Bats

are nocturnal. Nocturnal

means they sleep during the

day and are an awake at night.

This lets bats live longer be-

cause predators sleep at night.

Bats live from 10 to 20 years.

Creatures of the Night

are another type of bats. Crea-

tures of the Night hunt. They

use sound waves to find their

food and to not bounce into things. First, they make a

noise. Then when the sound

hits the object it bounces back

to the Creatures of the Night

and tells them the location.

Monarch butterflies

are not mammals like caribou

and bats. They are insects.

They also migrate. In the late

summer they began their win-

ter migration. They migrate to

coast of California or Mexico.

Monarch Butterflies eat nectar

on the way. They also gain

weight during the trip, but they

still don’t stop for long. They

don’t stop for long because

they don’t want to get cold.

Monarch butterflies can’t fly if

they get cold. Monarch butter-

flies travel far. They fly two

thousand miles each fall and

spring. They fly over lagoons

and large sections of the Gulf

of Mexico. Monarch butter-

flies fly to the same place each

winter and fall to the same

place each winter. The crea-

tures that fly south live north.

Monarch butterflies

give birth in March. They find

mates and go north in March.

The females lay 100 eggs each

year. They look for milkweed

plants to lay eggs, and then

they hatch into caterpillars.

Caterpillars come

from butterflies. Caterpillars

eat milkweed and create co-

coons. Two weeks

later there butter-

flies. Migration is

what a lot of ani-

mals do it helps

them live during the

winter.

Would you

like to mi-

grate?

Caption describing picture or

graphic.

Read witch

animals

migrate.

P A G E 1 0

Can Sadako

survive ?

What happened to

Sadako?

The Medieval Times

Sadako and the Thousand paper cranes Have you ever

heard of the book the

Sadako and the thou-

sand paper cranes? It is

about World War two.

A little girl named Sa-

dako lived in Hi-

roshima, Japan. She was

two when the bomb was

dropped. Sadako died at

eleven years old be-

cause she got leukemia

from the bomb. Here is

the story of how World

War two began.

The United

States entered war in

1939 because Japan

bombed Pearl Harbor on

December 7 1941. Al-

bert Einstein and an-

other scientist had the

idea of the atomic

bomb. Albert Einstein

had many theories about

the bomb. The top se-

cret project was called

the Manhattan Project.

Teddy Roosevelt set the

project up. The presi-

dent at the time was

Franklin Roosevelt.

Two billion dollars was

spent on the project.

200,000 people worked

on the project. Once the

bomb was made Presi-

dent Truman thought we

discovered the most ter-

rible bomb in the world.

The bomb was

dropped on August 6,

1945 in Hiroshima, Ja-

pan. The two bombs

names were little boy

and fat man. The United

States dropped a bomb

instead of attacking with

their military because

army leaders figured out

that anywhere from

500,000 to one million

US and allied soldiers

would die in an inva-

sion. Japan surrender on

August 15, 1954.

264,000 died from the

first bomb and 150,000

died from the second

bomb in all 414,000

died in all so far. That’s

why world war two be-

gan.

chants, and others.

There were also chefs.

When the chefs made

porridge the King and

Queen would love it,

but when the porridge

was to hot or cold the

king and queen would

be furious and send the

chef to the dungeon.

The chef would go

down on its knees and

beg its majesty not to

go to the dungeon. The

In the medieval

times there were a lot

of kingdoms around

the world. The king

ruled around the

world. The kings

ruled there

country without

absolute author-

ity. There were

different classes

in the kingdom.

Such as nobles,

peasants, mer-

king would not listen.

The highest member of

nobility, such as duke

would usually lead the

King’s army, and help

govern the King.

Sometimes an evil

duke would plot

against the king hoping

he will replace the king

one day. The duke

would need to be a

genius to plot this at-

tack.

How were

the Medie-

val times?

T H E S H E K H T E R G A Z E T T E

dies. He thought he did so he

called the Native Americans

‘’Indians’’ because he thought

he was in India.

John Cabot was also

an explorer, and he sailed for

England. He landed in North

America, and sailed in 1497.

John Cabot was searching for a

water route to Asia. John

Cabot was the first to discover

mainland in North America.

He also sailed right past New

Jersey. John Cabot was an Ital-

ian explorer.

Giovanni da Verrazano sailed for France. He sailed in

1524, and landed in Sandy

Hook, New Jersey. Giovanni

da Verrazano was searching

for a New World. All of his

Did you know that in the

1400’s there was unknown

land to Europe? At the time,

people believed that the Earth

was flat. Europeans began to

explore water routes to the In-

dies to trade goods. The Indies

is in Asia. Instead of finding a

water route to Asia they dis-

covered the ‘’New World’’.

Some of the explores where

Christopher Columbus, John

Cabot, Giovanni da Verrazano,

and Henry Hudson.

Christopher Columbus

sailed for Spain. He sailed in

1492, and landed in the Carib-

bean. Christopher Columbus

was searching for a water route

to the Indies. Christopher Co-

lumbus never reached the In-

communication was done

through sign language. Also

Giovanni da Verrazano kept a

diary.

Henry Hudson was

also an explorer. He sailed for

the Netherlands in 1609. Henry

Hudson landed in Sandy Hook

Bay, New Jersey. He was

searching for a water route

through North America. Henry

Hudson’s ship was called the

Half Moon. He found the Le-

nape Men and Woman. All

four of the explorers where

sent to explore somewhere and

found something.

Early Explorers

Early Explorers