Haiku Hut lesson plan: Jennifer enjoyed learning about Basho, the famous Japanese haiku poet.

famous Japanese haiku

I saw two seagulls
And a red bird in the tree
Waiting there for spring
- Jennifer

ArtHouse provides a focal point for Language Arts projects at all grade levels from pre-literacy through the middle grades. As shown here, ArtHouse provides a lovely place to display short poems in an interesting, thematically appropriate context. The students envisioned a Japanese garden in winter, and imagined viewing its weathered trees from the perspective of the original haiku poet, Matsuo Basho, who lived in a humble gardener's hut.

Every ArtHouse decoration tells a story - that's why we call them "storyboards". Sometimes the visual art comes first. Viewing it, kids are inspired to interpret and tell stories. Or, like storyboards in the film-making and advertising industries, making storyboards can be a tool for students to test and develop creative ideas from the brainstorming to the writing stage. A third scenario is demonstrated here: students wrote haiku poems and created visual artwork to aid presentation.

ArtHouse is a great teaching aid for Language Arts - it makes lessons more memorable.

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