Haikus

It's been a while since I posted. I will have to post a real update soon, but I wanted to share about the poetry my students are working on...first we wrote acrostic "poems" about the planets. They don't fully understand how they should work, but it was definitely a starting point!

Now we are working on nature haikus. They have been brainstorming about things in nature and writing descriptions of whatever animal, plant, etc. that they chose. For my example haiku, I wrote about the wind. Here is my example haiku:

Wind

Strong, invisible;
Howling through the trees at night;
Reminds me of God.

Haikus are fun, because the formula is fairly simple, which is especially important when working with 6-8 year olds. :) They seem to have a pretty good grasp on the 5/7/5 aspect. We practiced clapping syllables in various words. I am excited and nervous to see their first attempts at writing lines that actually have the correct number of syllables. They might get to that today!! :)