By the fourth graders

From kindergarten, we remember making friends, playing in rice, and reading Dr. Seuss. We loved when Mrs. Sharp took out the hedgehog, and we were amazed by her startling Halloween transformation. We remember playing with LEGOs and the giant marble trail. We got to go to Huntoon Farm on a hayride.

Some first grade favorites include being the younger Book Buddy and playing Twenty Questions. We loved dressing up in the Halloween clothes and laughing together. We remember reading almost everything by Roald Dahl that year.

Some sensational parts of second grade include getting Pandabear on our desks. We really liked the checkbooks and ticket store to learn to manage our money. We remember getting to read all the Mouse and the Motorcycle books.

We have third grade memories of going through the caves and the Lemon Squeeze at Lost River. We liked finding out about how the Shakers lived at Shaker Village with the fourth graders. Some of the amazing books we read were City of Ember, People of Sparks, Tale of Despereaux, and Gulliver’s Travels. Wow. We’ll never forget picking apart the “moon rocks” with a nail.

Some DES fourth grade memories are being a mill worker and getting paid at Belknap Mill. We thought everything was awesome about NH RiverDay, especially playing recorders by the waterfall and touching lots of forest things. We’ll always remember using our best manners at our Unbirthday Tea Party, writing with Mr. Van, mushing by pulling the dogsled, and doing the talent show.

Thank you, everyone at DES, for our wonderful ROCKing years here!