Written and
Illustrated by
Cindy Canales
Informational Writing
Giant Pandas
Fourth Grade
Informational Writing
Fourth Grade
By Cindy
Table of
Contents
1. Introduction
Caption: Panda
cub is eating plants.
2. Reproduction
3. Habitat
4. Dangers
1. Glossary
Glossary
1.
Word Bank
Word
Definition
Appearance What they look like
Diet
What they eat
Habitat
Where they live
Hibernate
When winter comes
and go to sleep
Reproduction
When pandas have babies.
Suckle
When they drink from
their mother
Introduction
Giant pandas are bears but they do not
look like a bears . Did you know that pandas
are in danger and pandas have babies and
they both are in danger. If you want to learn
more turn the page to learn much more.
Caption: Panda cub is eating plants.
Caption: A panda is happy
because he is away
Caption: A pandas is scratching its
face.
Reproduction
Caption: A cub is learning how to walk.
Giant pandas can start having cubs
when they are four to eight years old.
They stop having babies when they are 20
years old.
Appearance
When the cubs are born they have
short pink hairs. They weigh three to five
ounces. They are 7 inches long with a long
tail included. In one month the cubs
change to a tiny adult and a longer tail.
Now you know a
lot about
pandas. So... do
you want to
save pandas?
Dangers
Care
The mother licks the baby so the baby
can be clean. Another example is that the
mother lets the baby suckle to get milk.
The baby cries a lot and the mother
doesn’t leave the baby behind. Also pandas
love their baby because if they didn’t love
them the mother pandas would leave them
behind.
Caption: A cub is sad because he is in
danger.
Do you like the babies that pandas
have? But do you want to hear something
sad? If you want to lean more turn the
page. Do you know leopards can eat baby
cubs? Also people are cutting down panda’s
food. People are cutting down bamboo
because they are using it for their houses
Pandas let their cubs go when they are 3
years old. Can you believe it? Another
animal can get them.
Habitats
Diet
Caption: A panda is relaxing in his
habitat.
Caption: A baby panda is eating bamboo.
Giant pandas live in many places but if
you think that pandas only live in china
then you are wrong. They live in china and
forests in china, zoos in Mexico City,
Japan, Spain, Germany, France, and South
Korea. Do you want to know something
interesting? Did you know that giant
pandas do not hibernate. If you want to
learn more keep on reading.
They do not hibernate because they
eat up to 40 pounds a day. Giant pandas
eat plants, bamboo, fish, rats and plants.
But they eat more bamboo because they
eat 90% bamboo.