Elsa's excellent drawing of A.J.

Andrew Jackson was our 7th president. He was most famous in his presidency for his battle with the bank to get money for the country. This was the bank of the U.S.A. He finally won. People had real money. His presidency ended well and he is still remembered often today.

            He was born march 15, 1767. When he was 13 he joined the American Revolution as a message carrier. He had a very terrible experience there, his brother died while fighting in the battle, and his mother died while helping American prisoners. He got a scar on his forehead because he refused to shine the shoes of a British officer. He would always hate the British because of these experiences.

            When he was a young man he became a country lawyer on frontier land in Tennessee. He then became the leader of a militia, also called a citizen’s army.  He  fought VERY HORIBBLE fights with the Indians. His nickname was Old Hickory because he was skinny and tough like a piece of hickory wood.

            The battle of 1812 was when the British invaded the country again, and Andrew fought them off this time also. The British were better trained and had better weapons but Andrew’s army won. Over 2000 British were killed but only 13 Americans were killed. Winning this battle is probably the thing he’s most famous for.

            He went on to be a very popular president, in fact he was so popular that they put his picture on the 20 dollar bill. He was also the first president anyone tried to assassinate. He would fight duels if anyone insulted his wife’s honor.

            He died at age 78 in 1845.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura as a very old woman (on top)
and Laura as very young woman.

Laura Ingalls Wilder wrote many great books about her childhood. She was raised on the American prairie as a pioneer girl. She had a sister named Mary that was two years older than her. She and her sister called their parents Ma and Pa as nick names for their real names, Caroline and Charles. 
 
 Laura and her family moved and moved to many different places until they came to a happy home where her little sister was born. Ma and Pa named her new sister Carrie. The family soon moved to a little house that Pa  had built, with yellow pine boards, glass windows, and china doorknobs. Laura had never seen such a fine house. But In the summer grasshoppers invaded the land and ate the wheat. Then more trouble followed. Laura's baby brother Freddie died soon after he was born because Pa couldn't take care of  him without money. But even so they were cheered by the sweet melody of Pa's fiddle. The family had to move many times afterward.

 One winter Mary caught a fever and lost eyesight. Laura had to make pictures in words to tell Mary what she would see if she hadn't caught the fever.
  
Finally, they  moved to a place called De Smet. Pa promised Ma they would not have to move again.

As a young woman Laura became a teacher and married a man named Almanzo Wilder  in 1885.  (She called this man Manly.) A year later their daughter, Rose, was born.

When Laura was much older and Rose was an adult and a newspaper reporter, Laura needed something to do, so she told her daughter to edit her first story of her childhood. Rose agreed and so, in 1932 Laura's first book Little House in the Big woods was published. She wrote seven more books about her childhood. Laura's books were very famous and well written.

Laura Ingalls Wilder died at the age of ninety in 1957. She once said she wrote her books because,"I want children now to understand more about the beginnings of things, to know what is behind the things they see, what it is that made America as they Know it."

my weekend

My weekend was great because on Friday my friend Michaela stayed the night at my house. We were going to sleep under the fort we made but my room was too messy, so, we just slept on the couch. Well, we didn't sleep that much all night, we just whispered to each other. At about 2:00 AM we finally fell asleep.

 The morning was horrible. We ate cereal and then went outside to play but it was too cold for me and I wanted to go back inside but she wasn't cold at all and she said "Elsa you're not being nice and just letting  me do what I want. I'm going to play out here with or without you." two seconds later we were called inside to clean my room, it took hours. We cleaned all day nonstop until the room was finally clean. Michaela barely helped.

Right when we finished my mom said that Michaela's mom would be picking Michaela up in an hour.We hadn't played at all. We played and played as much as we could and then her mom arrived  and took her home. For the next three hours I did school work that I hadn't done on Friday. It was boring. Finally we went to my grandmother and grandfather's house. My mom stayed for dinner and I stayed the night.

The next day  me and my grandparents went to a cook off. It was boring until we went up the street to buy cousin Crislyn a present for her seventeenth birthday. I'm giving it to her on Wednesday. It was a couple heart shaped stones. Later that night my aunt Shilo took me home. And now I'm here today typing this story in just for you.
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