HAIKU Loving you

I spent last week teaching my third graders Haiku. I helped them learn how to break down syllables. Then I taught them the Haiku format 5-7-5. Some got it and some didn't. And a few of them came up with some pretty funny ones.

Gotta love me some pineapple

(the pencil one is hard to read but pretty good, too)

This is why I don't give out my number

(I hate poems)

I HUNGRY PIG TOO!

Awesome

(The one above it is very sweet)

When I had my first grade students draw a hand ghost this girl drew the Bunny Killing Farmer Ghost

The sick section

Top

Flu is scary (only 4 but meh)

I'd like to stay going school

Thanks Influenza

Bottom

I have a bad cold

I feel I become the old

help me help me please

This one is cute (below the flying Haiku is a Lisa Simpson drawing but no Haiku attached)

They love the Simpsons here

And here is my favorite. One of my kids stopped me in class. 'Teacher, you diet?'

'No.'

'You look.......(struggling for words)....uh... diet?' She points to her stomach and then to mine.

'Thin?'

'Yes, yes!'

'You diet?'

'No, not really.'

'Ah.....look good!' Thumbs up and a smile.

Since she couldn't express what she wanted to say in spoken words, she wrote this: 

Thanks.

Notes:

I am off to get my haircut.

Expect another post on that later.

This week I have been teaching the 3rd graders about syllable stress. The first graders have been learning about my family tree, Uncles, Aunts, and Nieces. Sydney and my cousins and everyone in my family is getting a lot of love in my classes.

One kid broke out in the 'I am so ronrey song....' I tried not to die from laughter in front of her. I had to stop her before she went to far. I was going to lose it. For those of you who don't get the reference check out Kim Jong Il in 'Team America'