Morning Starters: Autumn 2 - Plant Life
Did You Know?
What’s the most unusual thing you’ve ever eaten? The Venus flytrap is a plant with a very unusual appetite – it eats insects! Its leaves snap shut when tiny hairs are touched, trapping a bug inside. Then the plant digests its prisoner to get extra nutrition. It’s a carnivorous plant with its very own snack trap!
🔍Missing Letters
Add the missing letters to finish each word.
a p _ e t i t _
p _ i _ o n _ r
n u _ r _ t i _ n
u n _ s _ a l
Help: The words appear in the ‘Did you Know?’ paragraph.
🐍 Make it Longer!
Rewrite and make the following simple sentence longer by adding words to both the beginning and end.
The insect was unable to escape.
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🎯Hit the Target
Fact: There are currently around 630 species of carnivorous plant known to science.
🎯630
🧮10, 30, 40, 2, 4, 7, 9
Reach the target 🎯 by using some or all of the above numbers.
Help: Don’t forget you can ➕, ➖, ✖️ and ➗ numbers!
🤔 The Big Question
Do plants have the ability to think? Why do you think this?
🗣️Prepare an answer in your head to say out loud.
Sentence stem: I think this is likely/unlikely because …
