Saturday was my eldest's 11th birthday so we got 2 rooms at a nearby hotel (how decadent of us!) - one for 6 girls and 1 adjoining room for the parents -- it's a great arrangement, enabling us to monitor the excitement and not get in the way (until circumstances might warrant). However, the plan of swimming until 11:00 and carrying the sleepy, wet girls off to bed did not materialize because there was something wrong with the pool heating system - it might as well have been outside, it was so cold. But a few girls and I braved it, even so.
After the pizza and cake, the girls were bored in the unscheduled non-swimming time so I had them write Haiku - three girls independently think of 5 syllables, 7 syllables and then another 5 syllables -- now this part is important - without consulting each other. Then they recite the Haiku in its proper order. The resulting poetry from chaos is amazing! I had them write about the time we spent swimming:
Dipping tiny toes
Fun games at the swimming pool
They said the heat worked
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