Before I take you on a journey today, let me tell you something very exciting. You and I can now meet at clever.fm/storyprism and have fun discussing various aspects of the story. Here, you can answer a question from the story, ask me something about the story, or even share what you liked or didn’t like about it.The link to the website is: https://clever.fm/storyprismToday's story: 'Five Rats and A Funny Top Hat' is a simple story about rats trying to escape a cap. Listen to see if they actually succeedFree activity sheet available at www.rituvaish.com/five-rats-and-a-funny-top-hatSend your artwork to [email protected], the big black fat cat, lay across a mat pretending to be fast asleep. Samson pretended to be asleep, but he really had one eye open all the time.Samson’s one eye was looking right at the hole in the wall where a family of rats lived. One, two, three, four and five little rats lived in that hole. Samson was always wanting to catch those rats. So the poor little rats were extremely frightened.The five rats wanted to get away from the big, black cat and live somewhere else peacefully.One day, the rats peeped out from behind the hole in the wall. They saw Samson yawn and stretched and turned over to sleep a bit longer.This is perfect timing,” said one of the rats, placing his front paw just outside the hole. All the other rats quivered with excitement. Children, why were the rats excited?Yes, as now was their chance to escape. The first rat tiptoed out to cross the room. He started to run towards the door.Suddenly the door opened! In walked a tall man wearing a top hat. The man threw the top hat onto a chair but it missed the chair and fell on the floor. He didn’t bother to pick it.Children, was it good that the man didn’t pick his hat? We must keep things in place. What things do keep in place when you return from school.?Samson jumped up and hissed. The petrified rat ran back to his hole with the other rats. The chance to escape had gone.Luckily Samson went back to sleep. The rats looked at the cat and then noticed the top hat lying on the floor, which gave them an idea.Children, what do you think was the idea that the rats got?Interesting. Let’s listen ahead.The rats smiled and nodded to each other as they made a plan. They would hide under the hat and see if they could sneak past the big, black cat. Carefully, one by one, they wriggled under the hat and waited.The rats heard Samson snoring. The eldest rat signalled the rest to walk towards the door under the shelter of the hat. Slowly the hat slid across the floor. The cat did not wake up.Carefully, without making any sound the rats reached the door. It was open just enough for them to slip out and go down the road.  The hat, with the rats, went out of the door. The rats jiggled and did their rat hi-fives to celebrate their escape, all still hiding under the hat. They moved down the steps.While the rats were doing their dance, Samson woke up. His greedy eyes saw the hat moving across the steps and out of the door. He jumped up and started to walk towards the door.        The youngest rat yelled, “ The cat is awake! Run!”The rats ran as fast as they could.But the cat was getting closer and the rats could see no escape. Behind them was the cat and the road in front led to a duck pond in front of them.Children, Oh, what should they do?Whoosh, a sudden gust of wind blew down the road. It tipped the hat over and the rats fell inside. The wind now blew stronger than before and the rats hung on tightly to the hatChildren, What would happen now?The hat blew down the road. And splash fell into the pond along withal the 5 rats. The rats peeped over the edge of that hat. They saw that they were floating on the pond. Now the hat was a boat! They were happy.Samson looked at the rats floating on the pond. He was very angry because he could not swim. Samson hissed and went home. The little rats laughed at the cat as they escaped in the hat. 

Ver todos los episodios