Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Haikubes

This past weekend, I went to Seattle for a mini vacation and found this gem on Capitol Hill:


I had to buy them for my classroom. Last night I decided to play with them before I bring them out for my students to experiment with. I spread them out on my coffee table:


I read the instructions: 

I rolled the dice:

I decided I didn't want to write about either of those topics and started playing around:


I decided I didn't like this poem so I brought the box with me to work today and tried to write another poem over lunch: 

I decided this was worse, especially because Mike said that he 'didn't get it.' I thought about just nixing the entire blog entry, but then I decided to just post it and be a bit vulnerable! It's what I ask of my students everyday. 

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