READING ACTIVITIES

MICE

TEXT:

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.

Pre - Reading activities:

• Children have to answer the following questions:

          1.   Do you know what a mouse is?

          2.   Have you ever seen a mouse?

          3.   Do you know anything about mice?

          4.   Do you remember any famous mouse that appears in cartoons, movies, etc.?         

          5.   What is a dormouse?

          6.    Do you know what a pigmy mouse is?

•  Label the pictures with these words.

1º) Jumping mouse. 2º) Dormouse. 3º) Harvest mouse. 4º) House mouse. 5º) Pigmy mouse.

                       

                          

• Students have to draw a mouse and label the different parts of the mouse.

After reading activities:

• Children have to answer the following questions.

        - Which is the smallest mouse?

        - What are the measurements of the pygmy mouse’s tail?

        - How long does the dormouse sleep for?

        - How far can the jumping mouse jump?

       - Where does the harvest mouse make its nest?

       - What does the house mouse eat?

• True or false:

-The harvest mouse is a popular pet.

-The house mouse lives with people.

-The pygmy mouse lives for six months.

•  Copy the sentences in your notebooks, fill in the gaps:

The pygmy mouse is the ______________ mouse. It weighs ___________ __________ and is four and a half centimetres long and has a tail three centimetres long.

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

•        Make a list of words to describe the mices. You can use these words to make their description. If you want, you can also cut and glue them on another page.

SMALL	LIVE
LONG	FEET
TAIL	PET
EAT	CLIMB
SLEEP	BIG
WEIGH	JUMP

Made By: Cristina Muñoz, Pablo Pérez.