CLASS: LKG

SUBJECT: English
TOPIC: Two Cats and a Monkey (Story)
PAGE: 16
Learning Objectives:  
• To engage the children in the story
• To improve listening and reading skills, and comprehension
• To impart the moral and life skills in the story
Introduction to the topic:
Have the children sit around you in a circle. Talk about the characters in the story, ask them if they
have seen a cat, do they have a pet cat. Have they seen a monkey, where have they seen it. Give a
small description of a monkey – tell them it is usually brown in colour; it lives on trees and has a
long tail.
Show them pictures of these animals.
Teaching the topic:
• Tell the children the story in your own words, using actions and voice modulation to make the
story interesting. You can use puppets to tell the story.
• You can show the animated video first, seeing something helps children understand better than
just listening, as their attention span is very limited, the animation with be the best to make
them understand the story, then you can move on to reading the text from the course book.
If you take a few days to teach a story, play the video every time, before you start the session.
• Show the pictures in the Course Book and read out the story to them slowly, section by
section – the story is divided into 4 sections each with a picture.
• Point out to the first picture. What are the cats doing? They found a slice of bread and fighting
for it. Now read the text slowly. Ask them questions to see if they have understood the story so
far – how many cats are there?, what did they find?, what are they doing now? If you don’t get
the answers from them, tell the story in our own words again.
• Now move on to the next section. Point to the picture. Now read the text slowly. Ask them
questions to see if they have understood the story so far – to whom did the cats take the piece
of bread?, what did they tell the monkey? What was the monkey’s plan?, what did the monkey
say? If you don’t get the answers from them, tell the story in our own words again.
• Show the third picture. Now read the text slowly. Ask them questions to see if they have
understood the story so far – what did the monkey do?, did he divide the piece of bread into
two equal halves? Here you can use a real slice of bread to show what the monkey did, or you
can use brown chart paper and show them what happened. This is the most important part of
the story, so the children have to understand this, to understand the story.
• Show them the last picture. What happened finally? Did the cats get the bread? Who ate the
bread.
• Now read the complete story. As you are reading the story, have the book facing the students,
and place your finger on each word as you read, this will teach the children that the English
language is written from left to right and top to bottom.
• Use the masks and help he children act the story, show them the video of the story.
• Story – telling techniques:
o Story – telling using a felt board and stick-on figures
o Story – telling using puppets
o Story telling with books, pictures and charts
o Story telling with actions and voice modulation
Life Skills morals that can be taught from the story:
• Talk to the children about the life skills and morals in the story comparing instances in the
story:
o You should never fight with others – the cats fought with each other and finally they did
not get to eat the bread they found.
o It is wrong to cheat others – the monkey ate the bread that the cats found, he said he will
divide the bread equally, but the ate the whole piece.
Integration with other topics/subjects
• EVS topics like Animal kingdom, Animal homes and Young ones of animals.
• Ask the children to talk about their visit to the zoo, to improve their speaking skills
• Talk about following rules when visiting a zoo – not feeding the animals in the cage, not going
too near the cages that house wild animals, not teasing the animals in the cage.
• Talk to them of taking care of their pets, if they have any.
Activity Time
• Children can enact the story using masks.
Digital Assets
• Play the animated story to make learning joyful.