Topic: A cat with white shoes who steps in different things and turns his shoes different colours. Pete doesn't mind. He just keeps on walking and singing his song. There are plenty of videos on youtube with the song so you can hear it and sing it as you tell it.
Age: 3-8
Vocabulary: verbs (sing, walk, cry) colours (red, blue, brown, white) fruit (strawberries, blue berries) and other: wet, water, mud "oh no!" "it's all good", "goodness no!"
Procedure:
- Sing your hello song happily and sadly (or for variety, whilst crying and laughing!)
- Pre-teach the verbs with a game of simon says, or with simple commands.
- Drill the substances with flashcards. Say yes when, is a good game to check they know which one is which.
- Tell the story with the book. If you can clap the rhythm out. It's a tricky one to do, but the beat is very cool. Some teachers can get it others can't, but I would strongly suggest you watch the live story telling to see how it's done by the masters themselves.
- Activity time! Have the children think of another type of fruit that Pete could step in and say what colour it would make his shoes. Give them a picture of Pete with shoes on and they draw a pile of fruit under him and colour his shoes the right colour. If that seems too challenging, then you could draw different types of fruit under pete and get them to do a simple colouring exercise.
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| A simpler version of this. A ton of ideas here. |
- Finish the lesson with a song. I've written this song to the tune of Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. It reviews the verbs of the story and adds a couple of other common ones. Feel free to replace the days of the week with 'early in the morning' but I'm carrying on from The Very Hungry Caterpillar, so for me it makes sense. With the youngest students I would definitely reduce the number of verses and stick to the crucial ones.
(Here we go round the Mulberry bush, the Mulberry bush, the Mulberry bush,
Here we go round the Mulberry bush, the Mulberry bush, the Mulberry bush,
so early in the morning.)
This is the way we walk to school, walk
to school, walk to school.
This is the way we walk to school, walk
to school, walk to school,
on a Monday morning.
This is the way we run and stop, run
and stop, run and stop
This is the way we run and stop, run
and stop, run and stop
on a Tuesday morning.
This is the way we sing a song, sing a
song, sing a song,
This is the way we sing a song, sing a
song, sing a song,
on a Wednesday morning.
This is the way we cry and cry, cry and
cry, cry and cry,
This is the way we cry and cry, cry and
cry, cry and cry,
on a Thursday morning.
This is the way we wash our hands, wash
our hands, wash our hands,
This is the way we wash our hands, wash
our hands, wash our hands,
on a Friday morning.
This is the way we jump and skip, jump
and skip, jump and skip,
This is the way we jump and skip, jump
and skip, jump and skip,
on a Saturday morning.
This is the way we sit in church, sit
in church, sit in church,
This is the way we sit in church, sit
in church, sit in church,
on a Sunday morning. (ie. quietly!)
Extensions:
The Harpercollins site has a printable worksheet here, where the kids can decorate their own pair of canvas trainers.
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| Colour by numbers - Here |
Here's video made from the pictures in the book to reenforce the story.
You can even review Old Mac Donald Had a Farm with Pete the Cat.
And finally, for those of you with resources you could make a craft like this:
Or even this!
