Telling Fibs in Grade 4

Fibonacci, a mathematician who lived during the 1200s, developed a number sequence named after him. Each number is added to the previous number to get the next number: 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 and so on.

Author Greg Pincus invented the “Fib” form of poetry, in which each consecutive line has the same number of syllables that appear in the Fibonacci sequence. The students wrote their own. Here are some of their creations:

Oh no!

I'm sick!

by that bug!

Its now on the rug!

I hope I will feel better soon.

I am feeling much better before the afternoon!

I guess those five-star rated, cherry flavored pills worked amazingly well, that is swell.

- C.S., Rm. 14

Autumn

Red,

green,

yellow

leaves. Get out-

side and enjoy the

breeze. It's a piece of cake to en-

joy today. Go out and play! Hip hip hooray!

- S.C., Rm. 14

My

show

will come

out on this

December 18.

The show is about Star Wars, yay.

- B.B., Rm 14

So

wow!

No way!

I got home and showed my mom and

dad my grade; it was an A! Yay!

"No way," said Mom. Yay Yay No Way Hey!

- C.P., Rm 14

Cold

It

is

colder

than a mon-

ster's cold sore. Ew! So

gross. I meant to say ice cream. Ew.

- N.C., Rm 14

I

am

a num-

my chicken

wing so don't eat me.

If you do, you will go to chick-

en wing jail, and you will learn your rules so listen up.

- M.D., Rm 14

Al-

though

I can't

see my friends,

I still can. You might

not understand. But I can with

my tablet so I can. I hate this pandemic.

- C.C., Rm 14

I

am

annoyed

with COVID,

because we have to

stay home and wear a mask. But ev-

ery one knows we love Ms. Moore's teaching because she 

does a lot of fun things. She loves teaching library; that is her favorite subject. Books!

- L.L., Rm 14

I

like

football.

Patriots,

they are the best team.

Play in Foxboro at Gilette.

They are the best team in the National Football League.

- G.Z., Rm 15

I

like

the snow,

but I like

summer sunny days

so I can jump in the pool. Yay!

- L.B., Rm 15

Run!

They

will hunt

you down 'til

sunrise once you touch

the hidden treasure items. The

torches will turn into blue flames and start smoking.

You can't hide from them. You can't survive from them. They won't stop 'til you return the items.

- K.L., Rm 15

I

love

ice cream.

I like it,

but not strawberry.

I also do not like blueberry.

- A.S., Rm 15

I

hate

worms, but

worms love apples.

When they see one, they

go crazy for one, then get crushed.

- T.C., Rm 15