I have chosen this
book for many reasons:
It was one of my
favourite stories when I was a little girl. My aunt usually read it to my
cousin and me at night.
I think this is an
interesting story and an appropriate book for five-year-old children.
Children have fun
with listening because the main characters are animals. In this case the
animals are two mice and it is not common to find mice in stories.
They learn more
about the differences between town and country.
This story teaches
the kids that everyone is different but we can be friends with those
differences.
The illustrations
are very useful to increase children’s imagination.
To sum up, the
descriptions are made with short and very clear sentences which is easier for
children to understand the story.
Therefore,
vocabulary is also easy and the teacher can teach them some key words to
increase their vocabulary.
I like all the
colours of the drawings.
From my point of
view, these characteristics make the children to be motivated and interested about the story.
ACTIVITIES
Before reading the
story
§
The teacher tells the children that she is going
to read them an interesting story about a town mouse and a country mouse.
§
She asks them:
- What
is the meaning of Town? And, what is the meaning of Country?
- What
can you find in a town? And, what can you find in a country?
- What
do you think Town Mouse likes to eat? And, what do you think Country Mouse
likes to eat? The teacher has to point the pictures to difference each Mouse.
If they
don’t know these meanings, the teacher explains them giving the pupils some
examples with drawings. In this way, the children can understand the explanation
and the meanings better.
During the story
§
The teacher reads the story word by word.
§
The voice of the teacher should be loud and
slow, changing her voice to sound like the character in the book. This makes
the story interesting and fun to listen to, so, children don’t get distracted
easily.
§
When the teacher flips on a new page, she asks
the children to guess what might happen in the next scene or she asks something
about the pictures.
After reading the
story
§
The teacher asks the children to tell her:
- What
is the story about?
- Do you
like the story? Why?
- Who
are the characters?
- Who is
your favourite character? Why?
§
The teacher gives a picture of a town and a
picture of a country to each pupil. She also gives them some drawings of different
kinds of animals. The children have to stick the animals that they can find in
the country on the picture of the country and also the animals that they can
find in the town on tthe picture of the town. Some of the animals that the teacher gives to the students do not appear in any of these places.
§
The teacher gives a puzzle of a farm to the
pupils. They have to fit the pieces.
§ One day the children will go to a country
estate to see the animals that they can find there and besides they will see
how to take the milk off the cows. The children who will want to milk the cows, they will do it.
.jpg)
