The halls of Golden Hill are full of energy with students returning from the winter recess! Students are eager to continue learning, growing and exploring. In Noreen Meehan’s class, students put their goals and resolutions to paper and created beautiful haikus.

“A haiku poem is a poem with three lines and usually they are about nature,” said student Dreephamie Fermy. “Today we’re making New Year’s ones. They follow the rule 5-7-5 with every line.”

The students learned how they should count each line’s syllables to create the rhythm of a haiku. After using what she learned in class, Fermy’s poem read: New Year, start it fresh / Get outside and make new friends / Show your heart always. 

Students also learned about resolutions and what it means to create them, breaking down the word into three parts: the prefix “re”, a prefix meaning “again”,  “solu”, the root of the word solve, and “tions”, the suffix meaning “act of”.

“My poem is about how I want to look at the new year. It could also be specific goals, though,” said Fermy.

“They came out really nicely,” said Meehan. “I think it was a good way to come back to school.”