Published in the July 22 – Aug. 4, 2015 issue of Morgan Hill Life
By the first and second graders in the P. A. Walsh Steam Academy and Mt. Madonna YMCA Summer Achievement Program.
With listening you can learn about more subjects like math. Listening helps you to be smart. It’s important to be smart because when you grow older you can appreciate knowledge.
You listen with your ears and the words go into your brain. Your brain turns those words into ideas and thoughts and you remember them so that you have knowledge.
When we listen, we need to understand others to learn stuff and to be smarter when we grow up. Listening is fun because it lets us learn how to do activities such as play dodge ball. When you play a game, you have to learn the rules and instructions. If you know them, you can play the game.
Listening helps you learn to write because it can help you learn to put the alphabet letters in the right order to make a word. A sentence is made up of words in the right order published in a newspaper or book for the readers to “hear” a message or story. Listening helps you to understand others and learn how to write.
Listening is important to writing because when we listen we gain information from other people about stories or science.
We can use that knowledge or information to share it with other people through typing and writing a sentence.
Listening to our teacher is a good thing because it helps us read. Reading is good for your mind because it exercises your brain. The teacher reads out loud to us from a book and that’s how we learn to read.
When you’re listening to the teacher, you’re focusing on what she says. You’re not chatting with other people because that’s rude and doesn’t let you focus on stuff the teacher is saying.
Listening helps us to learn, and learning is important to writing.
With the help of publisher Marty Cheek’s Junior Journalism program, first and second graders in the P. A. Walsh Steam Academy and Mt. Madonna YMCA Summer Achievement Program, wrote this column.
