Activity 1: Narrate the Story
- After reading or listening to the story, narrate the story events aloud using your own words.
Activity 2: Color the Story
- Click the crayon above, and complete page 28 of 'History Coloring Pages for First Grade.'
Activity 3: Model the Story
Make your own tracks.
- Get a plastic garbage bag, a large sheet of paper, a large paintbrush, and some washable tempura paint.
- Have your instructor cut the plastic garbage bag open and lay it down to protect the floor from paint.
- Put the paper, the paints, and paintbrush on the plastic.
- Remove one shoe and sock.
- Put the paper, the paints, and paintbrush on the plastic.
- Use the paintbrush to apply paint to your foot.
- Make a footprint on the paper. You have made a track like Boone in the woods. Make more footprints on paper if you wish.
Activity 4: Study the Story Picture
- Study the picture below of Daniel Boone.
- What is Daniel Boone doing in the picture? (Swinging on a grapevine.)
- What is Daniel Boone holding? (A gun.)
- What is tucked inside Boone's belt? (A knife.)
Activity 5: Map the Story
- Daniel Boone was the first settler of Kentucky (KY). Zoom in to find the state on the map below.