Hello! My name is Martin and I’m in the first year at school. We’re learning letter sounds and I already know all of them! I can already write some of the letters too. There are still a lot of long words I can’t read, but mum says I’ll definitely learn all of them one day.
I live with my mum and dad in the square-shaped building right next to school. Since I can already count, I can tell you that it has six floors, and a different neighbour lives on each floor. Mum taught me how to spell ‘neighbour’, it’s a tricky word. There’s a playground in front of our building. After school and at the weekend, when the weather is nice, my friends and I go there to play.
Today there was no school, so I went straight out to the playground. We were playing ‘tag’, and it was a lot of fun, but when I was running I tripped over and scraped my knee. It really hurt! My trousers got torn, too. Mum wasn’t very happy about that.
When it happened, my knee stung so much I started crying. I was trying really hard to be brave and carry on playing, but a mum in the playground saw me and told me I didn’t have to put on a brave face.
“Go ahead and cry, if you feel like crying,” she said, smiling at me. “Without emotions we would be like robots.”
“Without emotions?...” I repeated. My voice was all wobbly from what had just happened.
“Emotions. That means feelings,” the lady said.
Well, I like robots, so I decided to try and find out more about feelings and maybe learn something about robots at the same time.
Where could I…
Readmio is an app full of fairy tales and bedtime stories with sounds activated by your voice. Many stories are free, new stories are added every week.
