Book Description

Who do you want to be? Enter a world of imaginative play! Meet Daisy, Robin and their toy Mouse who feature throughout the course. They love to dress up, and their different costumes in every unit lead to new adventures, capturing children's imaginations. With Mouse and Me!, children learn by doing. Exciting interactive routines and songs with actions make new language more memorable. There are lots of opportunities to act out the stories, and children will love the adorablepuppet. Fun craft activities embrace multiple intelligences. Pop-outs make fun 3-D objects to use in games or to review language. Mouse and Me! educates the whole child. Through the stories, children learn important values, for example being respectful, tolerant, and friendly towards others. Rich, captivating video content engages children, develops their understanding of the language, and encourages them to make cultural comparisons. Live-action songs enable children to learn from other real-life children, andanimations of thestories bring the characters and stories to life. Live-action footage from a British nursery school enables children to relate to children just like them. Cross-curricular Smart topics develop children's multiple intelligences, meeting the different learning strengths of each child. Mouseand Me! is designed to help you establish a home-school link. Review worksheets enable you to compile evidence of learning, and through My Book activities, parents can see what their child has learnt. Parents can play songs and watch the stories with their childat home, and an end-of-year performance gives children the opportunity to show what they've learnt to friends and family. Mouse and Me!'s easy-to-teach methodology helps you teach with confidence. Clear learning objectives in every lesson mean you instantly see the lesson aims, and the 'Hello' routine at the start of each lessonhelps you establish routine and consistency in the classroom. The wealth of teacher materials - including story books, posters, flashcards, a Mouse puppet, Smart topic photographic flashcards, worksheets, and videos - together with clear teaching notes and ideas, give you all the supportyou need. Mouse and Me! also provides a flexible and fun phonics programme. Resources include teachers notes, flashcards, lettercards, and audio, all developed by experts in phonics teaching.