Classroom Challenge: Reinforcing SEL Lessons with Haiku | By: Committee for Children Grades K–8 Help reinforce the SEL skills your students learn every day with this free classroom activity. Encourage them to get creative and explore the rhythm of writing haiku! Download and Print This Activity Sample Haikus: Inspire young learners (and yourselves) by displaying these SEL haiku in your classroom and around your school! Instructions Have students write a haiku about the skills they’ve learned from their Second Step lessons or about a topic of your choice. Grades K–5 Using your Following Through Cards and Unit Cards for inspiration, guide students to choose and write a haiku about a skill that interests them. Middle School Find inspiration for this challenge from topics either in the Unit you’re teaching this week or from your Program Themes. Haiku Form Remember a haiku is a poem structured in three parts, 5–7–5 Five syllables Seven syllables Five syllables Share with Us! Share your students’ haikus with us on Twitter or Facebook! Like This Activity? We’re adding more K–8 classroom activities to our Free Activities page all the time. They’re easy to find—just visit cfchildren.org/resources/free-activities/ for grade-specific, K–8 classroom activities that align with our Second Step Suite. Learn more about social-emotional learning, research on the topic, and how it benefits students in the classroom, at home, and in their lives.