YEAR 3

ACTIVITIES TO WORK WITH THIS BOOK:

WORD LEVEL: Everybody has to make their own alphabet. They can use different colors, draw pictures besides the letters (p.e. As we are working with the book ‘The town mouse and the country mouse’, next to the ‘M’, they can draw a mouse)… after that, they have to classify the letters in VOWELS and CONSONANTS. 

SENTENCE LEVEL: Children have to transform the following sentences in plural to singular, for example: 

- Once upon a time there were two little mice. 

And singular to plural: 

- The Town Mouse was very nervous! 

TEXT LEVEL: In pairs, they are going to tell each other what they remember about the story, and a description about the main characters.Then they have to write it in a piece of paper, using pictures and language of time such as: once upon a time, the next morning, after… They are going to have all of these expressions written in the blackboard to help them. 

You can work the area of Science with The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

LANDSCAPES: NATURAL AND MAN-MADE

ACTIVITY 1
Pupils have to distinguish natural and man-made elements, and complete 
the empty landscapes with the correct pictures. (Smart board)

ACTIVITY 2
The teacher will give to the children these 2 pictures which are a natural landscape with man-made elements, and vice versa.
Then, he/she gives them another black and white worksheet in order to colour the natural or man-made elements, it depends on the instructions. 

Natural: green

Man-made: red