Mrs. Pinard’s 4^th 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