The Write Stuff
If you enjoyed working on your student journal while you were at Outdoor Education, here are some similar fun activities. Test your memory on what you learned at Outdoor Education, reflect on what it feels like to be outside and on how you can help the earth and have a good time exploring the wildlife around you. Our Poetry, Redwood Trivia, and Water Cycle activities can be revisited again and again after returning from your week at Outdoor Education.
Poetry
Writing a poem is a great way to share your feelings and thoughts about nature. Making up a poem isn't hard. Just sit somewhere beautiful and think about how it makes you feel. Then try using one of the ideas below to write your own poem.
Haiku is a Japanese form of poetry that consists of three lines:
The first line has 5 syllables
The second line has 7 syllables
The third line has 5 syllables
Example:
The snow-covered tree
Sparkles in the soft moonlight.
The wind rushes by.
Diamante poems are diamond-shaped and consist of seven lines that use the following pattern:
noun
adjective adjective
"ing" word "ing" word "ing" word
noun noun noun noun
"ing" word "ing" word "ing" word
adjective adjective
noun
Example:
seed
small buried
growing breathing living
protection oxygen shade habitat
dying rotting crumbling
moist rich
soil
In Acrostic poetry, the first letter in each line, when read vertically, spells out the name of something.
Example:
Towering
Reaching
Extending
Embracing the sky
A windspark poem has five lines and uses the following pattern:
1. "I dreamed"
2. "I was..." (someone or something)
3. Where
4. An action
5. How
Example:
I dreamed
I was a tree
On a hillside
Playing with the wind
Joyfully