Haiku

[phcamp]

In our Arts section we offer a Woods Words activity combined often with making a Sunprint. The Woods Words activty helps get the creative ball rolling for kids journalling by guided poetry writing. Many of the kids do great Haikus. Here's an example:

The snow covered tree
Sparkles in the soft moonlight
The wind rushes by

So the question is:

Do you Haiku?

[Smudge]

We had a program called word warriors and I think that they may have done some - I know that they wrote poetry because they shared some of it with use before the closing camp fire that session.

[Wambangalang_Matt]

Yep, we do haiku. I really like poetry and sharing it with kids. Trouble for us is we don't have the kids for long so I think the set poetry forms are terrific. We also use Tanka poems and Cinquain. The most common activity we do with the cinquain poem is to sit around an old hollow log down in the scrub and I get kids to imagine what kind of creature could live in it. I talk with them about imagining its features, its movement, its eating and then we follow the recipe for a cinquain. Its great!

[laurathistle]

I did Haiku with some of my kids. (I am a reading teacher at camp). I found that if I tried to do regular poetry and used ABAB rhyming schemes etc, the rids freaked out and got fixated on trying to make them rhyme so using Haiku worked well. Also, because a lot of the kids had LD's, some were better with number than words and having them focus in the 5-7-5 rule got them interested.

[phcamp]

I'm happy that language arts has a place at camp!
Time to share your fav haiku (or diamonte, cinquain,acrostic, etc.) from camp

Caught in the headlights
Tries to be swift, can't jump high
Venison tonight

[Smudge]

That is funny - i like it!