Inking Thoughts: December Haiku

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Christmas Yum!
  • Putting Your Thoughts on Paper: Christmas Yum!
  • Gathering materials: family learning journals, pencils, colored pencils, crayons
  • Remind them to open their journals to the next available page and date it. Don’t forget to have them label the top of the page with today’s learning topic/skill.
  • Reading and Writing Connection: Creating a family Christmas Haiku. Ask each family member to brainstorm words/phrases that would fit todays Haiku topic. *Invite someone to list the words as they are being shared.
  • Next: Invite someone to be the Haiku scribe as the family creates each of the three verses (Verse1 =5 syllables; Verse2 =7 syllables; Verse3 =5 syllables). *Clapping the words for syllables = choc/o/late = 3 syllables.
  • Drafting responses: Invite each family member to copy the “Christmas Yum” Haiku into their journal (10 min). Encourage the youngest members to draw their thoughts and assign someone to be their scribe.
  • Finally: Ask them to illustrate a Christmas border around the Haiku.*Caution, remind them not to color over the written poem… just around it.

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