Today’s post was originally going to be about Grace’s Ancient China folder or some of our most recent science experiments, but then Grace did something super-awesome, so I’m going to share that instead. (Don’t worry…that other stuff will make it to the blog soon.) In Social Studies, we’ve started a Hands On History lesson about Ancient China. As part of the lesson, Grace is creating several “artifacts” from various dynasties. One of her “artifacts” was a Yeuh-Fu poem. Some of the characteristics of Yeuh-Fu poetry are lines that rhyme and imagery from nature. After reading an example and choosing a theme (life is fragile like a spider’s web), this is what Grace came up with:
As the silk ripples
With raindrops round
Wind rages and changes,
Yet we are bound
To fall to the cold, hard ground.
The webs spiders spin
And mortal men’s skin
Still dying without a sound.
Wow, right?!?! I think she did such a fantastic job with this assignment. 
I did help her out with some punctuation when we typed it up for the blog, but here’s a picture of her original:
![IMG_0686[1]](http://homeschoolhijinks.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/img_06861.jpg)
The picture of the poem is a bit blurry, so I’ll type it out for you first. 
