4th Grade Grade Creative Writing
Teacher, Miss Megan Dalton

Fourth graders learned about Haiku poetry by reading Grass Sandals: The Travels of Basho by Dawnine Spivak. The Haiku poems the students wrote after studying the form of the poems in the book, use the traditional Haiku pattern of 3 lines, with 5 syllables, 7 syllables, 3 syllables.

The moon is so bright
I can't keep my eyes off it
It is so pretty

- Cassie R.

I see the bright moon
The moon lights up the night sky
I watched all night

- Marc C.

I want a fire
I like to feel the warm heat
It is very nice

- Kyle B.

I see a rain drop
It came down from a mountain
It was a full moon

- Trevor M.

I see a fire
I can hear it crackling
It is very cool

- Autumn C.

I see a mountain
Next to it is a river
There is a big fish

- Mark R.

I see a horsy
It is very fast
I want to ride it

- Riley L.

I see a fire
The fire is by the sun
I don't want to go

- Myka L.

I see a river
Shining brightly in the sky
The fish were jumping

- Julia K.

I see something there
I see a tree on the farm
It is very cool

- Alex T.

I see a river
The mountain is very big
I see a big tree

- Maxwell S.