A simple question I asked my kindergarten students yesterday.

These were their responses (in order, and almost word for word):

• We write to practice writing books, because God might tell us to be an author
• We write to learn
• We write so we don’t look at what other people write
• So we can write what we are thinking
• We write to learn our letters
• If a person is sad, we can cheer them up by writing a funny story
• So they can learn more and so that when we write we don’t try peaking (at what others write)
• If we grow up  and we don’t know how to write we won’t know what to do (at this my youngest boy said, “Yes, that makes sense, I think!” It was so cute)
• If we don’t know how to write the word we think with our head and write
• Sometimes, if we want to write a letter to God and we don’t know how to write we can’t do that

The kinders have spoken. What do you think? Why do we write?