Mice

ACTIVITIES BEFORE READING

1. Have you ever had a house mouse at home? If the answer is yes, tell us something about the experience; if the answer is no, would you like to have this type of pet? Why or Why not?
2. As you know, there are a lot of different breed's of dogs, cats, and other animals. But did you know that there is more than one breed of mouse? If you know some of the types of mices tell us about them and describe them! Mouse computer is not allowed!!

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 tall three centimetres long.

Jumping mouse

The jumping mouse has long back feet. The Woodland jumping mouse can jumpo three metres. Jumping mice sleep for six to nine 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 WHILE READING

1. Match each mouse with its picture. Take into account the characteristics mentioned above to do the exercise:

• PYGMY MOUSE

• HOUSE MOUSE

• HARVEST MOUSE

• JUMPING MOUSE

• DORMOUSE

ACTIVITIES AFTER READING

1. We have learnt about five different types of mice. Which do you like most? Why?

2. Try to write a little story where the five main characters will be the five mice that we have learnt about. What happens to them?