36 April 7 – 20, 2012
Youth SanTan Sun kids have talent! In the first issue of every month, K.O.
the SanTan Sun News prints the best entries from kids in grades kindergarten through 12th grade in a variety of categories. Congratulations to this month’s winners! Note: If a great entry doesn’t make it into this issue because of
space considerations, we will hold it over to run in a future issue. Submissions are minimally edited to preserve the writer’s voice. If your submission appears in this section, compare it to your original to help improve your writing skills.
Parts of Speech BY ANNA MCCARSON
Jacobson Elementary, Grade 5
A noun names a person, place, or thing, As gate and tower, slide and swing;
When a noun is gone, a pronoun’s the one, As he and she can have some fun;
When I Wake Up BY GRANT LAUKONEN
Kyrene Del Cielo, Grade 3
When I wake up I get out of bed When I wake up I touch my head When I wake up I get dressed When I wake up I eat cheesy bread When I wake up I brush my teeth When I wake up I get into bed When I’m asleep I take a little nap
Knockout Poem!
An adjective’s a descriptive word, As slimy worm and colorful bird;
Something one does is what a verb is, As throw, catch, and taking a quiz;
How you do it the adverb shows, The –ly ending is how it goes;
The preposition’s where you are, As on the street or in the car;
The conjunction’s job is to connect With or, so, but, and yet.
Knockout Poem!
Knockout Poem!
Easter BY RUJUTA TAKALKAR
CTA Liberty, Grade 6
Easter’s here Time to cheer! Lots of flowers And April showers! Bunnies hide eggs Hop on two legs!
Easter’s here That is clear! Easter’s here No time to jeer! Easter’s here Cheer, cheer, cheer!
www.SanTanSun.com Hey Kids! Remember that the Kids
Opportunity section will eventually print all good entries. That means that if your entry didn’t make it into this issue, it may be slated for a future one. Keep checking back, as we sometimes experience a backlog of submissions.
Kids: Win $15 gift card from Changing Hands Bookstore Students who either live in Chandler, Gilbert, Queen Creek or surrounding
areas or who attend area schools can win $15 gift cards from Changing Hands Bookstore, thanks to a new partnership between the bookseller and the SanTan Sun News. This ongoing, monthly promotion awards a $15 Changing Hands gift card to
every youth whose article, story, poem, essay, editorial, book review, photo or illustration is chosen to be printed in the SanTan Sun Kids Opportunity section, while supplies last. The Kids Opportunity section is printed in the Youth Section of the first paper of the month, each month. The best news is that even though only one to three submissions are printed per month, all good submissions are held in a file to be printed in future issues. So if an entry doesn’t win this month, it could win next month -- or even the month after that. To enter, visit
www.SanTanSun.com, click on Youth and then on Student Writer Permission Slip to
download a submission-permission slip. Complete the form and have a parent sign it so the paper has permission to print the entry and the author or artist’s byline. Then, email the submission- permission slip and writing or artwork to
Lynda@SanTanSun.com as a Word file, if writing, or JPEG, if art, or pasted into the email. Those who don’t have access to email, or prefer to send submissions on disk, may send a hard
copy of the form with the entry in a Word file or JPEG on a CD via postal mail to Lynda Exley, Kids Op Page, SanTan Sun News, P.O. Box 23, Chandler, AZ 85244-0023. For more information on the Kids Op page, or to have SanTan Sun News Editor Lynda Exley speak at your school to rev students up about writing and publishing, email
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