Happy Mothers’ Day!
1. Put a ring around the word that best describes your mum.
Beautiful
Brilliant
Smart
Funny
Creative
Sunny
Thoughtful
Pretty
Fun
Kind
2. Put a ring around the word that reminds you most of your mum.
Butterfly
Tree
Flower
Sun
Songbird
Star
Book
Rose
Ocean
Bumblebee
3. Choose one of the words below that describes how your Mum makes you feel:
Happy
Glad
Loved
Lucky
Wonderful
Thankful
Sunny
Confident
Unique
Amused
Happy Mothers’ Day!
1. Put a ring around the word that best describes your mum.
Beautiful
Brilliant
Smart
Funny
Creative
Sunny
Thoughtful
Pretty
Fun
Kind
2. Think of an image, place, animal, or object that reminds you of your mum and write
the word below.
3. Choose one of the words below that describes how your Mum makes you feel:
Happy
Glad
Loved
Lucky
Wonderful
Thankful
Sunny
Confident
Unique
Amused
Happy Mothers’ Day!
1. What is your Mum like? Put a ring around one word.
Smart
Fun
Kind
Sweet
Good
2. What does your Mum make you think of? Put a ring around one word.
Flower
Forest
River
Songbird
Sunset
3. How does your Mum make you feel? Put a ring around one feeling.
Happy
Lucky
Thankful
Sunny
Grateful
Put the words you circled into your poem.
My mum is so __________________________.
Like a ________________________________, she’s lovely.
She makes me __________________________.
Practice writing your poem.
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Practice writing your Haiku Below:
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Mothers’ Day Writing Project:
Mothers’ Day Haiku
5-7-5
My beautiful Mum
Is just like the brilliant Sun
She always shines bright.
Hilarious Mum
Always makes sad times alright.
Her smile makes me glad.
Opening Activity:
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Remind the children of the adjectives they thought of about their Mums
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Remind the children of the poem we read on the board
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Explain that today we will be writing a different kind of poem, a haiku
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Haiku
o A Haiku is a special kind of poem that lets us say a lot with just a few
words. We use just a few very special words to tell someone how we feel
or describe things that we are interested in. In this case, we will be using a
Haiku to tell our Mums how they make us feel as a gift for Mothers’ Day.
This is really special because Haikus are kind of tricky, and I bet our
Mums will be so surprised and proud when we use this form of poetry to
tell them how much we love them!
o Here is what a Haiku looks like:
My beautiful Mum
Is just like the brilliant Sun
She always shines bright.
Have a student read the poem out loud. –Are there any rhyming words in
this poem? –Is the poem very long? –Do we repeat any lines in the poem?
(No) This poem is special because there it doesn’t need any rhyming
words and it is very short. Every Haiku is only three lines long and its
form comes from syllables. –Do you know what syllables are? (Syllables
are chunks of sounds within words. You can hear them best when you clap
to the words you use—Demonstrate—food (clap) has one syllable because
it has one chunk of sound. –Funny (clap clap) has two syllables because it
has two chunks of sound, use other examples as necessary). In each line of
this poem, there has to be a certain number of syllables. In every first line,
there has to be five syllables.—check with the poem on the board---In
every second line, there has to be seven syllables—check with the poem
on the board---In every third line there has to be five syllables. (write the
number of syllables next to each line) That is what makes a Haiku.
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Haiku for Mum
o We are going to write our own Haiku for our Mums. (Pass out worksheets) First, I
want everyone to do a little bit of brainstorming, like we did the other day, and
read the list of words that you might use to describe your Mum, then pick the one
that you think is best and put a ring around it. Second, some of you have another
list of images, or animals, or places that might remind you of your Mum, while
others of you have a blank space. Those with a blank space, think of your own
image and write it in the space. Those with a list, read the words and pick the one
that reminds you most of your Mum. Then we have one more last list of feelings
that our Mum might make us have. Our Mum might make us feel Happy, Loved,
Amazing…read through the last list and circle the word you like best there. When
you are done, use the words you have chosen to start writing a Haiku. You have
space to make two Haiku poems, so you have plenty of room to practice if you
need it. If you are having trouble with the words, raise your hand. Make sure that
you have 5 syllables in the first line, 7 in the second line, and 5 in the last line.
Once you are done with your Haiku, we are going to write our poems inside cards
for our mums and draw pictures for them that illustrate our poems.