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 42 of 'History Coloring Pages for First Grade.'
Activity 3: Recite the Story
- Practice reciting aloud the two poems in the story.
- Study the poems and answer the following questions.
- In the first poem, what is 'Robert of Lincoln?' (A bobolink.)
- What happens in the second poem? (A boy laughs at an old man's appearance, and invites others to do the same to him when he gets older.)
Activity 4: Study the Story Picture
Study the painting below of William Cullen Bryant (right) and his friend, painter Thomas Cole (left) in the Catskill Mountains.
Zoom in to see the details, and find the following:
- Cliff
- Waterfalls
- Mountains
- Mountain Stream
- Boulders
- Flying Bird
- Branch on the Ground
- Hats
- Walking Sticks