Diamante

A diamante poem is similar to a cinquain poem except it has 7 lines instead of 5 AND exactly half of the words refer to the topic and the other half to its antonym. Here are a few examples.

Lava
Hot & Deadly
Burning, Flaming, Smoking
Volcano, Eruption, Chemical, Experiment
Freezing, Clouding, Shattering
Cold & Deadly
Liquid Nitrogen
(by Spencer)

Day
Sunny & Bright
Waking, Working, Playing
Sun, Birds, Moon, Stars
Reading, Resting, Sleeping
Cool & Dark
Night.
(by Mom)

Cinquain

A cinquain is a poem with just 5 lines.
Here are a few examples we came up with today.

Lizards
Green and Small
Run, Hide, Climb
Very hard, though no impossible to catch
Lizards
(by Spencer)


Apples
Read & Crisp
Growing, Picking, Making Pie
Yum, apples are delicious!
Apples
(by Mom)

By reading these two examples can you tell what the pattern for a cinquain poem is? Do you think you could write your own?

Haiku

A Haiku is a poem that consists of 3 lines and 17 syllables (5,7,5). Haiku's are typically about nature and do not have to rhyme.
Here are a few Haiku's Spencer wrote today.

Fall is here, Oh my!
I see the fall colors and cry.
Fall is here, Oh, my!

Pitter, pat, pit, pat.
The rain is coming down,
making large puddles.

All cats have nine lives-
nine independent, long lives.
Cats are lucky, you know!

Do not play in dirt.
It may seem fun but it's not.
It means showering!