Year 4 have been learning to write Haiku recently. We have been thinking about the history of Haiku writing from Master Basho over 300 years ago right up to the present day. We’ve been thinking about taking a snapshot of our environment without using a camera – using only words.

Haiku look easy to write, but to write a good haiku is very challenging. Children have been thinking about the idea of showing not telling – this means to describe something not just tell the reader what it is. Tricky! However, I think Year 4 made a fantastic job of it and that’s why I have decided to publish every single poem! See if you can see the image being described in your head. If you like the poems, why not leave us a comment! Here they are (a few to follow):

What a funny plant
A big green bouncy castle
It absorbs water.
(Tommy)

A small thick black dot
Followed by a smooth tail
Swims in pond water.
(Daniel)

A dog in the sky
Made from water and dust
unable to run.
(Erin)

Clusters of colour
Painting the world peacefully
The ground’s a canvas.
(Holly)

Gentle dancing suns
Some never wake back up
Some try to reach for the sky.
(Emma)

Sad, friendless bushes
standing there, spikey branches
hardly life, no light.
(Jack)

Spring is here
Small bright suns all around
But they will have to go.
(James)

A burst of colours, Spring.
A green sea lights up our world
Yellow dots live, then die.
(Harvey)

Spring brings happiness
In the end it bows its head
To a certain death.
(Joseph)

Red and cheaping
Now they are dancing
Spots in the sky.
(Andrew)

Telephones ring all day
at Spring to 6pm
After that it starts again.
(Morgan)

Towering high
Emerald buds exploding from branches
Tallest mountains.
(Eve)

As yellow as the sun
Bees collecting pollen from it
Gives the world colour.
(Roman)

Shiny, silver
Staying still in the sky
In their blanket of cloud.
(Emily)

Sat there on the bush
Patiently waiting for food
Was a small creature.
(Louis)

Thin old branches hang
Dead against the Winter sky
Spring colour bursts out.
(Olivia)

Shining bright up high
Like little diamonds in the sky
How I adore night.
(Miriam)

Fireworks unfurling
Heads bowed in reverence
The earth is my soul.
(Scarlet)