Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Pi Day, Pi-kus

Jason and Sam's classes had a lot of fun with π the last couple of weeks.

We watched videos from Vi Hart and Danica McKellar, baked some pies and wrote π-kus. Gabe spearheaded the pie-baking with help from Ariana and Ben. On Friday, we all sat down for a celebration of π.
Ben made an Apple π. 
A π-ku is a poetry form (made up?) by Sam. It's a three line poem where the letters of the words are the digits of π. Like a traditional haiku it is three lines, but instead of 5-7-5 syllables, it is 5-7-5 words. A few of the classes π-ku are shared with you here:

π-kus

It's a pity, I think
wondering if anyone really can adore homework.
Educators provide boatloads for us.


How I know a thing.
Knowledge of powers great will never foretell
anything's history. Mystery, it's me.



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  1. Jill PrittsApril 3, 2015 at 11:15 AM

    The kids really seem to like baking. Maybe that could be a weekly activity. Maddy has been enjoying MOOT.

    I was wondering if you could post a copy of the scholastic news you read each week or post the topics so we can follow up with discussions at home.

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