YOU CAN BECOME AN ACTOR OR AN ACTRESS
You can read the following story and select a character that you want perform. Then, you will make a custome about this character with different materials such as plastic bags, stickers, ribbons and crayons. With your classmates, you should decide who is a principal character, the mouse, and the rest of characters. If the number of characters is smaller than the number of students in the class, you need think news characters that they can take part in the performance.
Also, you need to answer the following questions about the story.
The
Snow Mouse
Ears Mouse woke
up with a shiver, 'Brrrrrrrrrr' he said to himself, 'I am in my nice bed with
my big quilt but I am still cold, specially my nose'. His nose was almost
as red as Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer's nose. He had his night cap on
his head to keep his ears warm and had also put some extra blankets on top of
his quilt, as he had thought that it might be cold that night. He looked
at his clock on his bedside table, it said 8:45 - yet he could not see any
light shining through his curtains as it normally did at that time of morning.
Ears Mouse
counted 1- 2 - 3 and then jumped out of bed, ran over to his door, grabbed his
dressing gown and put it on as quick as he could. He then went over to
his window and opened the curtains. All he could see through his window
was white stuff, like very thick fog. He decided that he better light his
fire to make his house feel a bit warmer. Using some old newspaper and
some twigs, Ears Mouse tried to get a fire going but each time a good flame
went up the chimney a big drop of water would come down the chimney and put the
fire out. Ears Mouse thought that he would have to go outside to
investigate. So he go dressed very quickly and put on his warmest coat,
his wellies, gloves and scarf. He opened his front door and walked out
into the fog - or at least he tried to. Ears Mouse bounced back into his
house and landed on his bottom on the floor. It then struck him - it was
not fog, it was snow. He now realised what had happened, 'it must have
snowed very heavily last night and has blocked my chimney, door and windows' he
thought to himself.
Ears Mouse was
very worried now, 'how am I going to get out?' he wondered, 'I do not have much
food left in my larder as I was planning to gather some more food today'.
He though that he had better start to dig himself out just in case the snow did
not melt for a few days, so he got his shovel from the cupboard in the kitchen
and stuck it in the snow in his doorway. 'Hang on', he thought, 'where am
I going to put the snow that I dig out'. He realised that he would have
to put it into his house. After a while Ears Mouse had snow all
around him and felt like he was standing in a freezer. He was starting to
feel very cold indeed.
Outside things
looked a little bit better. Harry Hedgehog had been looking for some nice
juicy grubs that morning and had raised the alarm when he saw what had happened
to Ears Mouse's house. During the night the snow had blown along the lane
and the strong wind had made a snow drift all over Ears Mouse's house.
Many of Ears Mouse's friends were now discussing what they could do to help get
him out of his snow covered house. There was too much snow for the
animals to shift using just spades and shovels. 'We could ask Donald
Donkey to stamp on the snow to make it smaller', said Harry Hedgehog.
'No, that would be too dangerous' said Sid Squirrel, 'Ears Mouse may be digging
his way out and he could get stamped on'. 'I have an idea', said Molly
Mole, 'I could try and make a hole through the snow'. 'Molly, have you
ever burrowed through snow before?' asked Freddie Frog. 'No', replied
Molly, 'but is should be much the same as burrowing through the earth , just a
bit colder. 'I think it's a great idea', said Sid Squirrel, 'does
everyone agree?'. Everyone agreed it was the best plan so far.
Molly prepared
herself for her journey through the snow. Sid Squirrel loaned her his
bobble hat which she wore on her nose to help keep it warm. Harry
Hedgehog loaned her his sweater, even though it was full of holes from his
spiky spines.
Molly started
to dig through the cold snow and luckily it was not too hard. Meanwhile,
back in Ears Mouse's house, it was now very cold and Ears Mouse was starting to
look a bit blue. He had not managed to get very far through the snow
before his shovel's handle had broken. He was now using his hands to dig
his way through the snow but it was so cold he could not feel his
fingers. Standing back from the snow, to have a rest, Ears Mouse though
he was starting to see things. He could see a red blob in the snow and it
was getting bigger and bigger. It was the red bobble hat on Molly Mole's
nose that was poking through the snow and soon after Ears Mouse could see
Molly's head. 'Molly, am I glad to see you?', said Ears Mouse, 'I was
just about to freeze if I had to stay in here any longer'. He gave Molly
a hug and then followed Molly back through the hole.
There was a
loud round of applause when Molly Mole and Ears Mouse both climbed out of the
snow tunnel. All Ears Mouse's friends gather round and gave him a big
hug. Sid Squirrel put a big warm blanket around Ears Mouse's shoulders
and Harry Hedgehog gave him a hot water bottle, being careful not to make a
hole in it from his spikes. They all went back to Harry Hedgehog' place
as he had lit a big fire.
Ears
Mouse sat beside the fire drinking a lovely mug of vegetable soup and was soon
feeling much much warmer.
Harry
Hedgehog's house was so warm that the other animals decided to go outside and
build a snowman - well actually a snow mouse like their friend Ears Mouse
THE END
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