Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Procedure
1 Choose an animal to be the subject of the class poem, e.g. A frog.
2 Ask the class questions about the animal. See Box 6.
3 To construct a Haiku together, the children answer the questions.
4 Write the class Haiku on the board, using the children’s answers. See Box
6 for a sample Haiku.
5 Ask the children to recite their class poem together.
Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
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Box 6
Creating a Haiku
How to create a Haiku
Example of a Haiku Information about Haiku
What does the frog feel  The class Haiku 
Traditionally, Haiku poetry 
like to touch?
looks like this:
is based on three lines, with 
Wet, cold.
The wet, cold, green
the first and last consisting