Spring Haiku Bell Ringer
A five-minute poetry warm-up for the first days of spring: one haiku about spring, one about your least favorite season. 5-7-5, count carefully.
- Best time
- March, April
- Format
- Timed warm-ups students start the moment class begins
- Cost
- Free — no student accounts
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Spring Haiku Bell Ringer
A five-minute poetry warm-up for the first days of spring: one haiku about spring, one about your least favorite season. 5-7-5, count carefully.
What's inside this bell ringer
Write a haiku about spring: 5 syllables, then 7, then 5. Count on your fingers — everyone does. Then write a SECOND haiku about your least favorite season, and make your dislike obvious without ever naming the season.
Teacher tips
The second haiku ("without naming the season") is a stealth lesson in imagery and inference.
Read a few aloud and let the class guess the unnamed season.
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