Mrs. Pinard’s 4th Grade

 

        Fourth grade is going to Strawberry Bank on Friday, May 20.  Strawberry Bank is an old colonial village.  We are going to need chaperones.  We will be taking a bus to get there.  Strawberry Bank is in Portsmouth, N.H.  It is along the ocean.  We have been learning about the colonial days in Social Studies.  The whole fourth grade should know some of the things they will be talking about at Strawberry Bank.  We think it will be very fun.  It sounds pretty cool.

 

                                                                By Shawn, Alex, and Brandon

 

          Spring or Good-bye Winter                 School (After April vacation)

              Good-bye Winter                                                   School, school

                   Hello Spring                                                          We have to go back to school

                   Spring is here                                                        To learn, write, read, and teach

                   Hurrah                                                                  Getting A’s, B’s, and C’s

                   Flowers are blooming                                              No D’s or F’s.

                   Birds are chirping                                                  School, school

                   This is what I sing, all day                                      We go back to school

                   Spring is here                                                        When’s summer!

                   Winter is gone

                   No more snow

                   Oh, how the flowers grow                                                           By Alexandrea

                   Once again good-bye winter

                   Oh, I’m so glad it is gone.

 

                                                          By Sawyer

 

Science:

          In science we are learning about African dwarf frogs.  On one paper we had to draw the frog’s habitat.  Our class had eight frogs.  Six of the African dwarf frogs died.  At the end of the unit two people got to adopt the 2 frogs left.  We learned that they have webbed feet to help them swim.  Here are the steps of a frog’s life:  First, the frog lays her eggs in a jelly-like substance in the water.  Second, the tadpoles hatch.  They breathe with gills, like fish do.  The tadpoles eat algae and they store food in its tail.  Third, the tadpole begins to grow hind legs.  Fourth, the tail shortens and the tadpole grows front legs.  Fifth, the tadpoles’ gills are gone and their lungs are now used to breathe air.  The frog now lives on land and eats mostly insects.

                                                                                               

                                                                                                By Savannah + Kelsea

 

Reading:

          In reading we just did Author’s Purpose:  why an author wrote something.  We did why the author wrote stories, poems, comics, etc.  We did something where we had to write something, read it out loud , and the class would try to guess why we wrote it.  This week we are doing Text Structure:  how the author set up their writing, like compare and contrast, categories, cause and effect, and things like that.  That is what we are doing in reading.

                                                                                                By Katie  

 

 

 

Vacation is Gone                      Vacation is Over                                                         

Vacation is gone                                                      Vacation is over

          Wow, it is over                                                       Kids are back in school

          It may have been fun                                              I wish it could have lasted

          But I smashed my four-leaf clover                           A whole lot longer.

          Now we’re all back in school                                    Every classroom is filled

          Because it is done                                                   With children from Auburn.

          We may have to get up earlier                                 Buses fill with children

          But at least it was fun!                                            In the afternoon and morn’

                                                                                      Parents may do as they please,

                   By Grace                                                      While children are learning geometry and

                                                                                                        more.

                                                                                      Vacation is over.

                                                                                                                   By Leah