Hundred Faces and Haiku Poems

Justus started it off. When he'd finished his maths task, in a spare moment, he made a face.

Again, after our work with DST, we had a little spare time: so we made some more. This time Mr Gregg made a rule: each face must cover one hundred squares, must have an area of one hundred.

Today we wrote some haiku poems to go with our faces.

Autumn Trees Haiku 2

Here are our finished haiku, placed on our wonderful ink blown trees.  Hope you enjoy looking at them as much as we enjoyed creating them.

Haiku trees: Part 1

Here we are creating our ink trees to accompany our haiku.  We were very good at ensuring that we blew the ink... not sucked it!

Here are some more pictures



Watch this space for our finished work...

Three haikus by Aditi

Aditi wrote these three haikus at home and brought them in

Tree with haiku

Thank you Anabel for showing us how the red seal stamp works.

Views of Mount Fuji

Six men together,
carrying food and water...
Long journey behind.

Rod

4B have already written some great haiku poems about Hokusai's 36 views of Mount Fuji. Here are 4G's:

Quiet windy day,
Birds curling tightly: it's cold!
Calm volcano stays.

Annie

Cat haiku poems

We had a look at this video of Mr Gregg's new cat, Tziggy:



Here are some of our first drafts of haiku poems about Tziggy:

Wabi Sabi : Our Autumn Haiku 2

4G went on a haiku-walk to look at some of the trees.

Wet lavender dripping,

Lime trees with bugs crawling up,

But leaves falling down.

Marie

Big round olive tree,
Small cylinders all around:
Delicious olives!

Rod

Bugs trot on rough leaves;

Nights longer and days shorter

Soft, rough and dry leaves.

Gracia

Bumpy, rough and dry,

Spiky grass in the cold wind.

Lazy branches fall.

Annie

Purple lavender

Very old and bumpy trunk

Japanese maple

Anabel

A red bug's running

Up and around on a log:

Japanese maples.

Gabrielle

Spiky balls hanging
On a thin branch of maple
With colourful leaves.

Rose



Wind making leaves blow,
Flowers turn to seeds in June,
Leaves turned into tea.

Holly



Wind blowing, leaves fall,
Spiky balls hang on branches,
With colourful leaves.

Noah



The lime trees as hard as
Steel; A nest with plenty of
Good food for nature.

James



Sometimes green or red
Bugs coloured orange, red and black,
Go down the grey stem.

Justus and Samyak

(We'd read the book Wabi Sabi together, and this helped us with the feel of the haiku poems.)

Wabi Sabi : Our Autumn Haiku

First we went on a Wabi Sabi walk outside.  Here are some of the everyday beautiful things we found:



We then created some haiku about 'Changes in Autumn':


Autumn leaves

Stones in the Autumn

Change colour with moss and dirt

Wet green, yellow, brown

By Lucia and Chloe

 

Autumn Is Here

Rain, rain, I love rain

It’s so cool, ants are walking

Rain oh rain, oh yeah!

By Vanisha

 

As rain drips off leaves

The pond’s ripples dent the sky

And the fish shimmer

By Angiolina

 

Green leaves turning brown

Flowers start growing outside

Moss grows over trees                       

By Glyn

 

Patterns in the stone

Some designs are split in half

Round, oval, smooth, sharp

By Imogen

When Autumn is here!

In Autumn moss grows

Small plants get wet in the rain

Then the sun comes out

By Macy

 

Insects in wet grass

Crawling to their damp dark nest

Grass changing colour.

By James

 

Stem looks like a worm

Old brown, yellow and pale green

Feels like a snail shell

By Javier

 

I’m the nature Queen

Leaves fading from the cool sky

It makes me feel good

By Kayla

 

Raindrops fall from leaves

Drip smoothly into puddles

Small ripples are made

By Leonie

AUTUMN STARTS

Lines on the ferns stay

Plants veins I easily see

Colours fading fast

By Shriya

Yellow green mixes

A single yellow flower

Some thin yellow lines.

By Sebastian

Stem looks like a worm

Bright yellow and pale green

Like a snail’s shell

By Sebastian

Water reflections      

Wonderful old olive tree

I can see you there     

By Sofia

Green leaves rotting soon 

The leaves fall off the tree now

Autumn is coming

By Thomas