An accidental lesson
Chloe and Kievan have really been enjoying Rick Riordian's "Percy Jackson" book series which is about the half human/half "god" children of the Olympic gods, set in modern times. (I've read two of the books and they are really fun.) Anyway, the god Apollo is depicted as a blonde-haired blue-eyed California surfer-type of dude who drives his sun-chariot way too fast and is totally "stuck" on himself. Unlikely though it sounds at first, he likes to make up Haikus (his sister Artemis always groans when she hears them)- we understand why when we hear them- the main subject is himself!
An example:
As far as I know, this was the girls'first intro to the world of Haiku.
Unrelated to this, one day I was surfing blogs and came across this cute one: Haiku of a Homeschooler. I printed off several of her poems to share with the girls during classtime. However, they found them and read them before I knew it. They were so inspired they decided to do this.
On a completely different note, (I'll seguey it like this...) if anything deserves to have an emotion encapsulated in a poem of 17 syllables, it is this performance by Susan Boyle. If you haven't seen it already (it is the top viewed YouTube video right now, getting way over a million views per day- several of them mine :-) you really need to. I cry every time I see it, and I'm not the emotional type!
Susan was the youngest child in a Catholic family of nine children. She dedicated her life to taking care of both of her elderly parents until they died. She's never been married, never been kissed, and is very poor. This is her audition on Britain's Got Talent (similar to American Idol).
Watch it here.
An example:
"Green grass breaks through the snow
Artemis pleads for my help
I am so cool"
As far as I know, this was the girls'first intro to the world of Haiku.
Unrelated to this, one day I was surfing blogs and came across this cute one: Haiku of a Homeschooler. I printed off several of her poems to share with the girls during classtime. However, they found them and read them before I knew it. They were so inspired they decided to do this.
On a completely different note, (I'll seguey it like this...) if anything deserves to have an emotion encapsulated in a poem of 17 syllables, it is this performance by Susan Boyle. If you haven't seen it already (it is the top viewed YouTube video right now, getting way over a million views per day- several of them mine :-) you really need to. I cry every time I see it, and I'm not the emotional type!
Susan was the youngest child in a Catholic family of nine children. She dedicated her life to taking care of both of her elderly parents until they died. She's never been married, never been kissed, and is very poor. This is her audition on Britain's Got Talent (similar to American Idol).
Watch it here.
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