Fourth Grade Research Paper

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John Powell English 1010 Casey Lambert September 20, 2012 In the fourth grade, we seem to view the world in a completely different perspective. We don’t realize it until we grow older, but imagination can take us anywhere we want to go, make us anything we want to be, whenever we like. One of my favorite memories of fourth grade is my flashback to science class. That year in Mrs. Townsley’s class, each of my classmates and I were given a caterpillar to take care of as a class project during classroom hours. Its lime green slinky, like shape was mesmerizing as one could imagine, for a fourth grader. We were taught about metamorphosis and how the caterpillar turned into the butterfly after a certain period of time. I was fascinated. The shapes the…show more content…
Pulsing from one end of the little glass box to the other, eating its daily luscious leaves on its mystical journey to becoming a butterfly. I can remember myself imagining how scary the caterpillar would be if it was life size and how grateful I was to be so much bigger instead of the other way around. As long as the caterpillar was cool at night and warm in the mornings, the transformation to a vivid butterfly happened in three weeks. After feeding the small green bug sugar water for almost three weeks, it was almost time to watch the transformation. The morning before it happened I was so excited to go to school. I thought about how cool it was to be able to watch the steps of this caterpillar becoming a “man” in its own scientific way. I wondered if my parents had felt the same way about me slowly growing up before their eyes. Could they see me growing taller? Becoming older and wiser? I took on this father like responsibility that morning and came into science class

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