Happy Thought

Robert Louis Stevenson

Teacher card

Published: 1885, in A Child's Garden of Verses
Length: 2 lines, 20 words, no long words
Year band: Reading load: Years 3–4. A guide from word length, not a curriculum level.
Themes: birthday, thanks
Time: 5–10 min, depending on the activity

The text

The world is so full of a number of things,I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

Robert Louis Stevenson (died 1894), A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), lines 929–930 of Project Gutenberg ebook #25609. Public domain in Australia: the author died before 1955. Copied word for word and checked against the ebook.

What to do with it

One link and one task line for each activity. Send a student the one you want them to do, or print this page and hand it round; each link has a QR code.

Its lines are dealt for names in posy cardsin posy · 2 lines · about 5–10 min
Task for students (you can change the sentence before you print; nothing is saved)See how posy takes lines from this poem, then make a card for someone using them.
See how posy takes lines from this poem, then make a card for someone using them.
posy.popplepoetry.com/sources#rl-happy

Send the whole hand-out

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Link for the whole text

https://popplepoetry.com/find/stevenson-happy-thought · popplepoetry.com