Cinquain, Diamante and Haiku Poetry by kids

Today's literature lesson was on poetry. Usually I have to teach English or literature separately to Jas and to Zosia as there is 5 years difference between the two of them. But today's subject suited both of them.

Cinquain Poems

• no rhyme
• 5 lines: 
1. a noun
2. two adjectives
3. three verbs ending with -ing
4. a phrase
5. a noun (the same as in line 1 or different)
• or like this:
1. two syllables
2. four syllables
3. six syllables
4. eight syllables
5.  two syllables

Here are cinquain poems kids created:

/by Jas/

Oreo
Crunchy, sweet
Eating, enjoying, dunking
With every bite I love it more
Cookie

/by Zosia/

Ice cream
Tasty, icy
Dripping, licking, melting
Under the scorching sun
Ice-cream

Diamante Poems

When it's written out it takes a shape of a diamond. It goes from one idea to its opposite.

• no rhyme
• 7 lines:
1. first noun
2. two adjectives describing the first noun
3. three verbs about first noun
4. 2-words phrase or nouns about first noun, 2-words phrase or nouns about second noun
5. three verbs about second noun
6. two adjectives describing the second noun
7. second noun (usually opposite in meaning to the first one)

/by Jas/

Elephant

Huge, heavy

Stomping, caring, rolling

Tusks, mammal, insect. antennae

Working, cleaning, building

Tiny, quiet

Ant

/by Zosia/

Flower

Pretty, small

Growing, feeding, dying

Colour, smell, green, leaves

Embracing, swaying, giving

Big, old

Tree

Haiku Poems

• three lines
• 17 syllables
1. 5 syllables
2. 7 syllables
3. 5 syllables

/by Jas/

Plane in the blue sky

Soaring through the white clouds

High above the hills.

/by Zosia/

She sits on the chair

Forcefully kicks off the ground

Then spins round and round.

Do you teach your kids about poetry?
Do they try to write their own poems?