My Summer Haiku - Poetry Slam - Kick Start - Summer Learning Journey Tekau Ma Iwa

Today for Summer Learning Journey we made summery Haikus. 

Haiku Poems came from Japanese literature during the 17th century. It did not have the name Haiku until the 19th century. I did my Haiku about the beach because it's my favourite part of summer. I thought I would do something different this time so I used Jamboard which I know how to use but do not use it very often.

I enjoyed writing my summer haiku because I could choose pretty much anything summery. I really enjoy making these because I love describing things without saying its name and only being allowed to use a certain amount of syllables is really fun and a bit tricky.

I found it tricky to make my haiku in the right format. If you don't know, haikus follow a pattern. Its syllables go from 5 to 7 then 5 again. A few times I thought of something then it was eight syllables so I had to think hard to make it fit and use different words. I used the online thesaurus to help.

Here is my Summer Haiku:

Is Summer the same in every country?

Today for my summer learning journey I had to figure out if summer was the same in every country. Did you know, that in Japan they have to do work like the summer learning journey? I learnt that in India, one unique area is the Kashmir Valley in the north, where summer break is only ten days! I enjoyed writing the New Zealand summer google drawing because I had to just search up only some facts and then write some things I like doing. It was difficult to use Jamboard because I have never used it before. So I just looked around and then figured it out. If I had to do it again I would make the image different.

Here is my google drawing:

Here is the Jamboard: