The Birds Fly Cool: A Haiku For Each Season

The students and I had an extra long break due to the first vortex of 2015! In honor of how frozen we were that week, when we finally got back together we read a haiku for each season by the great and very funny poet, Issa. The students then wrote their own poems for each season. We embraced the winter cold but we also fantasized about hopeful spring, and lazy summer, and crisp fall. If you’ve got the winter blues, I think we’ve got the fix below. Enjoy!

Room 216 Literary Arts

Spring Poem by Christian L.

Its raining a lot
We should jump in the puddles
I’m getting so wet

Winter Poem by Bruce G.

Sledding down mountains
Snowballs getting tossed around
Hot cocoa slurping

Spring Poem by Isabel V.

The rain is so cool
I love the flowers when they gleam
The bugs bite too much.

Winter Poem by Elisa S.

Winter time is hear
Its now time for fun and cheer
Playing in the snow

Winter Poem by Ivan S.

I like to throw snowballs
My step dad throws them back
Me and him, we’re shivering

Room 214 Literary Arts

Spring Poem by Melanie M.

What a sunny day
Flowers blooming in the dirt
Watering them all

Winter Poem by Hector T.

Winter is coming
The climate is changing here
Time to make snowmen

Winter Poem by Guinevere M.

My brother’s playing with snow
My puppies like rolling in the snow
My sister, making a snowman

Summer Poem by Jonathon S.

It’s really hot
We go swimming at Lake Michigan
I like to eat ice cream

Room 215 Literary Arts

Summer Poem by Ruby R.

The birds fly cool
and flowers smell like breeze
like Violets

Summer Poem by Ivan A.

Swimming
at the
pool

Summer Poem by Christian G.

Swimming
in the
pool