PQ-PreK-3: The Lion and Mouse

PreK-3 Autonomous Learning
PQ App Instructions - Demo Examples: The Lion and Mouse, Goldie and the 3 Bears, Once Your Brain Learns to Read, Super-Star of Learning, The Adventures of Aladdin, The Adventures of Isabel, The Dentist and the Crocodile

THE LION AND THE MOUSE
(click on any word, then click inside the pop-up)

A big lion was sleeping. A small mouse ran on top of the lion's face. This woke the lion up. And it made the lion very mad! He took the mouse up in his paw. He was going to eat the mouse.

But the mouse said, "Please let me live. I will thank you by doing a nice thing to help you back, one day."

The lion said, "That's just too funny." Then he let the mouse go free.

But five days later, some mean hunters got the lion in one of their traps. They were going to send him to a zoo. The lion could not get out. The ropes of the trap were very thick. The lion was very mad.

He gave out a loud roar. The mouse was far away. But the lion's roar was so loud that he heard it. He ran for an hour to find the lion. When he finally got to the trap, he chewed on the rope for a long time. The rope broke and made a hole for the lion to get out of. The mouse set the lion free, just like the lion had set the mouse free.

The mouse said, "You said I was being funny about being able to help you some day." But I knew that I would be true to my word. So now you know that even a small mouse can help a big lion!"

What we learn from this story is that no one is too weak to do a good thing.

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