Happy Haiku Poetry Day!

As you may have seen on our Instagram feed this week, we have been working on writing haiku poems. For those of you who don't remember what a haiku is, it is a centuries-old form of poetry that originated in Japan, and the simplified definition of it is that it is a three-line poem that has five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line, and five syllables in the third line. As a happy coincidence, we finished writing the poems on National Haiku Poetry Day - too cool! We decided to write ours about how we are tired of the winter-like weather conditions that currently exist in Winnipeg... even though spring officially started almost a month ago. I, like a lot of my students, love winter, but... enough already! Anyway, scroll down and check out the students' work - their haiku poems are really good!