Learning Activities

 Day One

1. Read the whole book.

2. Make a timeline. Put two pieces of paper (letter or A4 size) together end-to-end and tape them together. Using a ruler, draw a straight line across the width of both pages.  

Make 20 marks along the line at one inch (or 2 cm) intervals.  Above the first mark, write “1800” and above the second mark write “1810” and so on until you get to “2000” at the end mark.

3. Beatrix Potter wrote The Tale of Johnny Town-mouse. Learn more about her at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Potter

Mark her birthdate on the timeline, and also the date The Tale of Johnny Town-mouse was published. You may like to cut out the little pictures in Appendix One to put above your marks.

4. This book takes place in England. Find England on a map of the world.

5. Timmy Willie and Johnny Town-mouse are different kinds of mice. Timmy Willie is a harvest mouse. Learn more about harvest mice at

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mammal/harvest_mouse.shtml

and

http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/mammals/Micromys_minutus/more_moving_images.html

• For younger students: Write down (or narrate to someone else) five facts about harvest mice.

Johnny Town-mouse is a house mouse. Learn more about house mice at

http://www.lewes.gov.uk/environment/954.asp

and

http://www.nsrl.ttu.edu/tmot1/mus_musc.htm

(bear in mind that the most websites devoted to house mice are assuming you want to get rid of some!)

• For younger students: Write down (or narrate to someone else) five facts about house mice.

• For older students: Write two or more paragraphs comparing the two kinds of mice—in what ways are they different and in what ways are they similar?

5. Draw a picture (or print one out from the websites) of a harvest mouse and a house mouse (http://www.digitalwildlife.co.uk/britishwildlife/mammals/housemouse.htm).

Put these in your notebook.

 Copywork:

 For Younger Children

For Older Children: