haikus and kwl

Today in 3/4/5 we did, after the vocabulary quiz, a quick KWL for the separation of East and West Germany. I'm looking forward to building this chapter/unit and really having a good time with the students learning about history. I will look through their lists of K/W in a bit... overall I'm excited.

After that, we took about 15 minutes and wrote haikus in German... and then had a poetry corner. The poetry corner is what made it great. Prior to that, I could tell that the haikus seemed like a hoop to jump through... but everyone presenting their haiku and having the snapping afterward made it enjoyable.

Very cool.

Off to tabulate KWL results.