Haikuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Oh, how exciting it was to work on these haiku poems. These kids were intent and intense. We started with a freewriting exercise last week to get warmed up to the idea--and generate some material--and this week we used that material to craft some lovely gems, some razor-sharp moments, some crystal snapshots, pictured below.

I was especially impressed with the students' willingness to mess with conventional sentence structure, and toy with how they articulated their original images and ideas in order to fit the haiku structure.


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Mrs. Hernandez, Rm. 109, 6th grade


Haiku
Samuel N.

The birds are chirping.
The wind is blowing like a
freezer in a store.

My dogs are barking.
Also the clouds are flowing.
They’re going away.


Haiku
Chris R.

School I do and write
I blush in embarrassment
I laugh while I laugh


Haiku
Briana D.

It’s very dark outside,
soon will be time to sleep.
Dark, outside I’m scared.


Haiku
Miguel G.

staring at the sky
daydreaming about many things
that the bell can ring


Haiku
Daisy A.

I am in a class
where desks move like blue and white
rumbling water

Tomatoes are brown.
My face blushes in the cold.
Trees are calm and cold.

Aunt cooking a pie.
The sour blueberry pie.
My aunt, a berry pie.