After exercise, we turned to our stickey poster board and the residents saw the word I had written at the top: "Haiku". I asked if anyone knew what this word meant ("Something Japenese?" "Very good Mr. Smith"). I asked them to guess how it was pronounced. ("High-coo?" "God Bless you, Mrs. Jones, do you need a tissue?")
We talked about the rules for making a Haiku poem, practiced counting the syllables in each of their names, then listened to a few examples.
Finally I asked them to look out of our window. "It's April this month, what sorts of things do we see outside only in April?" We made a list of words like April, green, rain, and tulips. Finally we wrote a Haiku together. After making sure each line was in order, I wrote it on a fresh page to stick to the door. The residents decorated the lines in Spring colors.
I can't share that one since we included the building's name, but here is another:
