MICE

MICE

Pygmy mouse

The pygmy mouse is the smallest mouse. It lives for one year. It lives everywhere in the world except Antartica. It weighs six grams and is four and a half centimetres long and has a tail three centimetres long.

Jumping mouse

The jumping mouse has long back feet. The Woodland jumping mouse can jump three metres. Jumping mice sleep for six to nine months in the year. They eat seeds, worms and beetles.

House mouse

The house mouse lives with people. It eats anything it can find. It can eat soap and glue and electricity cables. They are popular pets.

Harvest mouse

The harvest mouse can climb very well. It climbs grass and corn and holds on with its tail. It makes its nest at the top of stalks of grass and corn.

Dormouse

Small dormice are six centimetres long and weigh fifteen grams, and big ones are nineteen centimetres long and weigh two hundred grams. They sleep for seven months every year. They live for about three years.

Dormice can hear very well and can make a lot of noises. They eat fruit, nuts, seeds, insects, spiders, worms and eggs. The Romans liked to eat dormice.

                                                                                                                              Storytelling with Children. Andrew Wright.

ACTIVITIES

The structure of the text is simple and well organizated, that makes it understandable. This is why, before reading, we are just going to ask some questions, to make pupils participate using speaking skills.

BEFORE READING

1.       Does anyone have a pet? What kind of pet?

2.       Has anybody got a mouse as a pet?

3.       Can you remember any story, film, comic or TV program in which the main character is a Mouse?

4.       Do you know the name of any famous and recognized mouse?

5.       Did you know that they are different kind of mice? Do you know the name of any of them?

WHILE READING

1.       Circle three of this words that are mice characteristics:

SMALL

 PAW

TAIL

WINGS

CHEESE

BIG

2.       Write the letter of the picture next to the kind of mouse we have read about.

Pygmy mouse

Jumping mouse

House mouse

Harvest mouse

Dormouse

A

B

C

D 

E 

AFTER READING

1. Follow the next steps to draw Mickey’s face.

2. Colour the following picture took from TOM&JERRY.