 This is an activity in the Hall of the Mountain King by Grieg. It's a way to introduce the children to classical music or at least to involve the minute. It gets them moving. At first you're sitting on your spot and you're just moving with your hands. After you do that a few times then you can actually have the kids act out. You can make up your own stories. It's a good for active listening. They have to really pay attention to what's going on. It's a way for them to feel the music and to kind of respond. The cat is looking around the house for the mouse because he's hungry. But he can't seem to find that mouse. He's walking around upstairs looking in the rooms and he looks in the hallway upstairs. No mouse. Looks in the master bedroom upstairs. No mouse. Looks in the baby's bedroom and thankfully there's no mouse. Looks in the attic. Not even a mouse in the attic. Looks in the bathroom upstairs. No mouse. Decides to go down the stairs. No mouse on the stairs. Looks around in the living room. No mouse. Looks around in the den downstairs. No mouse. In the office. No mouse. Then he decides to look in the kitchen. And what does he see? The mouse is walking around. He's hungry too. He's picking up crumbs to eat. So he picks up some breadcrumbs in the Easter house. He picks up some cheese crumbs in Easter house. Find some pizza crumbs. Oh some spinach. He finds some crackers. He finds some spilled milk. He finds some spaghetti and eats that. But suddenly he sniffs. He thinks, somebody's watching me. He looks over at the door and who does he see? But the cat coming in through the door and when the cat sees the mouse he starts running. The mouse starts running. The cat gets close and he swipes. And swipes and the mouse is running and he jumps and runs this way. And now the cat is running as fast as he can trying to catch that mouse. The mouse is running as fast as he can to get away and the cat gets close and he jumps and the mouse runs this way. And the cat jumps and jumps and the mouse runs that way. And jumps, and jumps, and jumps, and jumps, and jumps, and jumps. The mouse is running for his hole, the cat makes the own jump. And then the students have to decide if the cat caught the mouse or if the mouse got away.