Morning Starters: Spring 1 - Riotous Rainforest
Did You Know?
Why do you think rainforests face an uncertain future? It’s because too many of their trees are being cut down. People clear forests to grow crops like soy and palm oil or to raise cattle (cows) for their meat. Roads are built for trucks to carry away timber, and mining for oil and precious metals also damages the land and rivers. Protecting rainforests is so important because they provide homes for countless animal species, produce oxygen and help keep the Earth’s climate in balance.
🕵️Word Detective
Circle just the words that have a spelling mistake and rewrite them correctly.
oxygon →
unsertain →
future →
climite →
Help: All of the words appear in the Did you know? paragraph
🚀Level Up
Take this simple sentence to the next level by making it more descriptive.
The animals were scared.
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✅ Which Ones?
Fact: An area of rainforest the size of a football pitch is destroyed every 30 seconds.
Tick just the number sentences that equal 30.
☐ 120 ÷ 4
☐ 12,395 –12,365
☐ 3,000 ÷ 100
☐ 3,608 – 3,577
🤔 The Big Question
What do you think would happen if all of the world’s rainforests disappeared forever?
🗣️Prepare an answer in your head to say out loud.
Sentence stem: If this happened, I think …
