Morning Starters: Autumn 2 - Plant Life
Did You Know?
Have you ever smelled something really stinky, like rubbish left out too long? The rafflesia flower smells even worse – like rotting flesh! This clever trick fools flies into landing on the enormous flower that looks and smells like meat. The flies think they’ve found food, but instead they spread the plant’s pollen, helping to make more rafflesia flowers. Curiously, the flower lives off other plants and does not have any leaves, stems or roots of its own.
Boggle Quest
Find the following words: pollen, flies, smelly and flesh.
Rule: Each letter must be next to the one before it, in any direction.
3️⃣ 3-Word Challenge
Write a sentence that includes these words:
rotting flower flies
Remember: Don’t forget to start with a capital letter and end with a full stop.
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✅ Which Ones?
Fact: Rafflesia flowers can measure as much as 110 cm across.
Tick just the number sentences that equal 110
☐ 20 x 5 + 8 + 2
☐ 305 –195
☐ 440 ÷ 4
☐ 25 + 40 + 75 + 60
🤔 The Big Question
Can something that smells bad still be beautiful?
🗣️Prepare an answer in your head to say out loud.
Sentence stem: I think/I don’t think something that smells bad can be beautiful because …
