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  • Kia ora!

    In addition to your AKO learning project (see you Learning Advisor google classroom), we are working on our vocabulary and creativity skills for English. And so I introduce....


    The Big Coast Haiku A Day Challenge


    A haiku is a traditional Japanese poetry form.

    As you may already know, it is a short poem made up of 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second line has 7 syllables and the last line has 5 syllables. 

    The lines do not usually rhyme, but they can rhyme, if you want to.


    (Remember: a syllable is part of a word pronounced as one sound. E.g. lockdown has 2 syllables: lock-down)


     (Click on the image to watch a video on haiku or check out this website: https://www.kidzone.ws/poetry/haiku.htm )


    Your challenge this week is to write one Haiku a day to express what is happening in your day, the things you notice around you, etc. 


    Look at the examples below. Haiku can be serious, observational, reflective, or funny.


    Note: this is an off-line task. You can write your haiku in a notebook if you have one, or on other bits of paper - including the back of an old envelope! Work on your 5 haiku for the week, (you may illustrate the background/ draw pictures) and then send us a picture of your haiku collection when it is ready.

    You can also share your haiku on our google Meets, if you can attend them.