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Morning Starters: Autumn 2 - Resilient & Resourceful

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Did You Know?

The orange-spotted tusk fish is remarkable for its resilience and resourcefulness. By repeatedly smashing a shell against a piece of coral, it can reach the meaty part inside a hard-shelled clam. While the clam-cracking tusk fish isn’t the first fish observed using tools, it is the first to be filmed doing so.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05kycq0/player

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Word Challenge

Make a list of the hyphenated adjectives that appear on this page.

Add your own hyphenated adjective, which could be used to describe a tusk fish. 

Grammar Challenge

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Rewrite the sentence below, adding a relative clause.

The reef-dwelling tusk fish smashed open the hard-shelled clam.

Example: The reef-dwelling tusk fish, which lives among the colourful corals, smashed open the hard-shelled clam.

Number Challenge

Over a two-week period, a tusk fish smashed open 322 clams.

If it smashed open the same number of clams each day, how many clams did it smash open in a single day?

Critical Thinking

A resourceful person is good at solving problems.

Describe a problem that can be solved in a variety of different ways.