![]() Retell the story using your own characters in place of Country Mouse and Town Mouse. ![]() Finally, use playdough or clay to make some mice to live in the house. You can decorate the furniture with fabric scraps or coloured paper. Use small boxes (like matchboxes), bottle tops and other recycled materials to make mouse-sized furniture for the house. Use a medium-sized cardboard box to make a home for a mouse. Is your home your favourite place? Or is it somewhere else? Write a list of the reasons you chose your favourite place. Read the text on these pages again and then find each of the animals and objects in the picture. Look closely at the picture of the countryside. Where do you live? Draw a picture of your home and the surrounding area. What do you love about where you live?ĭo you have cousins? Where do they live? Would you choose to live in the country or in a city? Why? How are the living conditions in villages and cities different? It seems we love the places we know best. When it got too noisy, even for him, he went to stay with his cousin for a holiday. ![]() But when she went there, she made sure City Mouse was there to protect her.Ĭity Mouse went back to his city apartment. Once in a while, she ran an errand in the city. “I’d rather dodge the traffic than a scary wild cat!” Country Mouse stayed in her country home, where she enjoyed the peace and quiet. “Run!” The first thing City Mouse noticed was the quiet.Ĭountry Mouse lived at the base of a broad tree, under a wide blue sky. “Dung Beetle keeps things clean.” “And what does Caracal do?” “He eats us,” said Country Mouse. Life is sweet!” A shiny round creature appeared, rolling a ball in behind him with his spiny legs. “Birds share berries with us,” said Country Mouse. He heard a rustle and a buzz and a scrape-scrape-scrape. “Don’t you get bored?” Country Mouse laughed. “I want to go home.” “Nothing ever happens in the country,” City Mouse said. “Skyscrapers are so much taller!” Country Mouse coughed. She looked up, but the blue sky was hiding behind grey buildings. City mouse, country mouse: The persistence of community identity. “Nice to see you,” said Country Mouse, although she couldn’t see very much at all. Really, he said, you do not live well at all you should see how. When the little City Mouse sat down to dinner he was surprised to find that the Country Mouse had nothing to eat except barley and grain. Country Mouse came to town to get a new pair of glasses. Once a little mouse who lived in the country invited a little Mouse from the city to visit him.
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