Hi, my name is John. I've got a very happy family. My dad can play basketball and my grandpa can sing very well. My mum and I can speak Chinese. She can play football. My sister can dance, but she can't dance very well. She's only five. And I can play table tennis. I'm fantastic!

    Last week we talked about growing potatoes. Today we will talk about growing another root vegetable, carrots. Carrots are easy to grow and easy to harvest. They taste good. And they contain a lot of carotene (胡萝卜素). When we eat the carrots, our body makes carotene into vitamin A(维生素A).

    When we think of carrots, we usually say carrots are long, thin and orange. But carrots are in many different sizes and shapes. And not all carrots are orange. Sometimes we have green carrots with yellow inside.

    Carrots should be planted in the sand. The soil also should have no rocks.

    Today is Saturday. The sun is shining. The students of Class Four have no lessons today. They're in the park. The park is big and beautiful. There are many trees and flowers in it. Some boys are playing games on the grass. There are some girls under the tree. They are singing and dancing. Peter and Tom are sitting near the river. They are drawing. Peter is drawing a boat on the river. Tom is drawing an aeroplane in the sky. They can draw very well.

    Mr and Mrs White go shopping by car. They stop their car near the shop. They buy a lot of things and they want to put the things in the car. They can't open the door of the car, so they ask a policeman for help. The policeman is very pleased to help them. Just then a man comes up and shouts, "What are you doing with my car?" Mr and Mrs White take a look at the car's number and they are frozen with a shock. It isn't their car.

Today is Saturday. It is sunny and warm. I go to the zoo with my parents. There are so many animals in the zoo. Look! The rabbits are jumping. They are so cute. Oh, there is a panda. The panda likes bamboo best. It is eating bamboo now. What's that? It's a lion. It's sleeping under the tree.

Do you know the Dragon Boat Festal? It's on May the fifth. It's a traditional festival in China. And the Dragon Boat festival is in memory of a Chinese poet, QuYuan. People in China usually have a big meal with family on the Dragon Boat Festival. And they usually eat rice dumplings. Rice dumpling is also called Zongzi. It is a kind of rice dumpling wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. In the past people threw rice dumplings into the river to feed the fish so that they would not eat QuYuan's body. Dragon boat racing is the most exciting activity during the Dragon Boat Festival. Children all enjoy watching the Dragon boat racing very much. A dragon boat looks like a dragon, and is painted in red, white, yellow or black. A dragon boat is 20 to 40 meters long and need twenty people to row. The Dragon Boat Festival is very interesting.