Morning Starters: Spring 1 - Resilience
Did You Know?
Scottish water voles must often swim across vast, treacherous lochs (lakes), risking encounters with giant carnivorous fish that would happily swallow them whole. Despite the dangers, these remarkable athletes push forward with incredible resilience and determination. Water voles also scale 700 metre- high mountains. It is here that they must escape the murderous talons of golden eagles, which are thirty times their size.
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Word Challenge
List the 4-syllable words that appear in the ‘Did You Know?’ paragraph.
Example:
re-sil-i-ence.
Grammar Challenge
Rewrite the sentence below, replacing each underlined adjective with a powerful alternative.
In the crystal-clear lake, a plucky vole escaped the murderous jaws of a ferocious fish.
Number Challenge
Fact: Water voles in Britain have been recorded eating 227 different species of plant.
Reach a target of 285 by using some (or all) of the 4 operations and the following numbers:
Help: Partition the target number first.
Critical Thinking
What has been your greatest challenge so far?