A Fox And A Mouse

Use our teaching ideas with this short video about what happens when a lonely fox hunts a little mouse.

Which of the ideas below will you try with your children?

Teaching Ideas and Resources:

English

• The story can be seen as a fable. Compare it to other fables you know.
• Collect adjectives to describe the icy setting.
• Compare this to other films and stories set in very cold places, for example, Frozen, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and The Snowy Day.
• Stop the film (for example, at 1:02, 4:00, and 5:09) and discuss what the characters might be thinking.
• Write a dialogue between the fox and the mouse.
• Make character profiles of the characters.
• How does the relationship between the fox and the mouse change over the course of the film?
• Write about the animals’ next adventure.
• Write a narration for the story in the style of a wildlife documentary!
• Make a storyboard of the film.
• Watch the trailer for the film and plan your own trailer.

Science

• Write an explanation about why there is ice on top of the lake and liquid water below.
• Find out how animals are adapted to live in cold climates.
• Investigate why ice is so slippery.
• Make a food chain or web including the animals in the film. What else would you need to add?

Computing

• Design a website to promote the film.
• Watch the sequence from 1:06 – 1:08. Can you make a simple animation of a mouse jumping?

Art

• Make your own snowy landscape picture.
• Look at photographs of foxes, mice and owls and draw your own versions.

Music

• Try watching the film again without the music. What do you notice?
• Write your own soundtrack for the film.

Geography

• Write a report about the parts of the world with the coldest climates.

Physical education

• Make up a dance using the movements of the fox, mouse and owls.

PSHE

• Why do you think the mouse went back to help the fox?
• Sometimes we don’t like people at first but they turn out to be good friends. Has this ever happened to you?