Published in the Sept. 2-15, 2015 issue of Morgan Hill Life
By Jen Myers’s third-grade class at Barrett Elementary School
Jen Meyers third-grade class at Barrett Elementary School
We in Mrs. Jen Myers’ third-grade class believe it’s important to be smart so that we can have a successful life. We learned that to be smart, we have to use both halves of our brains.
The brain has two sides. The left side helps us with language,logic and linear thinking. The right is our “artistic” side, the creative or imaginative side of the brain that helps us see things.
The left side and the right side of the brain need to work together. For example, alphabet letters combine together to form different words. The letter’s C-A-T can turn into the letters A-C-T and have a different meaning. So when you see the letters “CAT,” you hear a sound in your head that tells you to “see” a furry animal with four paws that goes “meow” and chases mice.
In school, we learn from our teacher. At home, we learn from our parents and our brothers and sister (our siblings). We also learn from our friends. We learn from our actions. We learn from our mistakes — if you make a mistake in science, you learn you made an error and you can correct that and learn from that.
We learn from history. History is stuff from the past. We can learn from our presidents because sometimes presidents make mistakes. If we learn from their mistakes, maybe we will not make those errors ourselves.
We can learn from ourselves. We can teach ourselves by reading, writing, and thinking.
Being smart is good for our future so we can get jobs and make money with a paycheck. The money helps us buy grocery foods, pay rent or buy a house, or buy a car so we can travel. Being smart helps us to survive.
Being smart is a life-long process and it’s important to our happiness.
Our education in school is important because it makes us smarter, which helps us make the world a better place for everyone.
After a Junior Journalism writing workshop by Morgan Hill Life Publisher Marty Cheek, Jen Myers’s third-grade class at Barrett Elementary School wrote this column.
