Today while I was going to the class I noticed a strange  thing with my  kids.

As soon as I entered the class kids were all murmuring

I asked,' anything wrong?'.they all became silent and after a while  a boy from the corner stood up and said,'madam today we want to sing a song' .

I sighed  and said nothing  but again kids started  shouting,'madam we want to listen to the song '.

After sometimes  I played a music  and every kids in the class were silent.

Then I thought listening music is one of the best activity for kids.

 I played two to three times and after that they could  sing very well.

This shows that listening  is more important  and every time  I encouraged  my students  to listen.

If we want to be a good speaker, we have to listen alot.  I focused  more on listening  activities.

Everytime  I let my kids to listen to letter sounds, rhymes and stories.

Why listening and speaking?

Listening and speaking are more important in pre primary  classes.
Kids, they learn through listening  and imitate what they heard. Especially  for kids listening is more important to develop their  vocabularies,
They speak out what they heard.
In my class, every time before the start of my lesson
I start by letting  kids to listen to sounds and rhymes.
Listening  and speaking  involve more then analyzing your ability  to talk and hear from other people.
Listening is about what you learn from external  and speaking  is about presenting information  and ideas  what they heard.
It also shows how you can adapt from writing  texts to presentating them on speaking.
What I have noticed in my class is students who are exposed to more listening are good at speaking.
For example a boy whose parents are educated, knows more vocabulary then the boy coming directly  from a village.
So what I have noticed  is listening  is more important  during their early age.
Later if we want to become a good speaker we should listen alot and

The steps I have taken to teach listening and speaking
are....
1. Teaching rhymes with action.
2. Telling stories.
3.  let them listen to stories.
4.  Reading high frequency  words  aloud
5. Teaching vocabularies  through  pictures.

My life my world.

My life is everything for me

I was born as a fragile  thing 

And grew up to be  strong 

Wow! my life.

Born as a plain slate

Grew up  to be  knowledgeable  

Untold  story of my life 

What a life of unexpected 

What I have now 

May not be there later 

What I feel just now

May not be same feelings forever

Wow! Life, full of untold stories
Mixed  up with Joy and tear
Who will come close to me
Hope every one will

 Close to heart, close  to life
To feel the journey  of life
To taste and to listen
To my untold  stories