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The Swing
Robert Louis Stevenson
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside-
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown,
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
Available Answers
- 1.
Find the words in the poem which the poet has repeated many times. (Hint: They tell us about the movement of the swing.)
- 2.
Complete this word web to show all that the child can see when the swing goes up.
- 3.
We all love games, don't we? How many types of games do you know of? Read these descriptions of eight games, and write their names in the boxes.
- You need a table with a net in the middle, a plastic ball, two small wooden bats, and a friend to play this game.
- It is a battle fought on a board with sixty-four black and white squares.
- Roll the dice. The lucky player moves up the steps. The unlucky one gets swallowed down.
​​​​​​ - A ball with feathers goes flying across the net in this game.
- Close your eyes, count to twenty, and find your friends.
- It is a sad tale of a ball that gets kicked all over a field.
- A wooden board with four pockets at the four corners, a circle of black and white discs, and a red 'queen' in the middle. Everything is set. Now strike!
- A small brown jumping insect shares its name with this game.
Now take out all the letters in the
boxes and rearrange them to find the name of another game. Do you know how it is played?
- You need a table with a net in the middle, a plastic ball, two small wooden bats, and a friend to play this game.