[Rescued from my old blog.]
Well, I hadn’t planned on spending my day this way. One of the great things about homeschooling is that we can spend time following rabbit trails…
While browsing the Carnival of Homeschooling, I found a link to Farm School blog’s article Fib Foolery, which sent me to Gotta Book for his articles The Fib and More Fibbery (read the comments on both threads, but be warned that some are crude) and several other posts, all of which set me off on a morning of poetic fun. I know what I’m going to share at our Tuesday Teatime and Poetry Reading this afternoon.
A “Fib” is a Fibonacci poem. It’s based on syllable count, like a haiku, but the lines follow the Fibonacci counting series: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8… (Each number is the sum of the previous two numbers.) Here is the best one I’ve come up with so far:
Math:
Word
Problem,
Mental play.
Archimedes shouts,
“Eureka! I figured it out.”
Wouldn’t you like to try it, too? Please share!
Edited later the same day, to add…
While we’ve enjoyed our tea and poetry times this year, I think today’s is the first one that inspired the kids to actually write poetry themselves. My 7yo dd was so proud of herself to be able to count syllables and write:
Cat.
Soft.
Pretty,
But sleeping.
While my 12yo ds really took off. He’s working on Fib #12 at the moment. His first two are still his favorites:
Ducks
Have
No luck,
But they do
Have many feathers.
Hunters like to shoot ducks a lot.
and
Paul
Is
Revered
A lot by
Paul Revere’s Fan Club.
What is Paul’s last name, anyway?
Denise Gaskins' Let's Play Math 
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