Morning Starters: Autumn 1 - Nature's Builders
Did You Know?
Creative and artistic, a male bowerbird builds a remarkable structure made of twigs called a ‘bower.’ Designed to impress a female, this elaborate bower is decorated with carefully chosen natural and man-made objects such as shells, leaves, bottle tops and wrappers.
Credit: BBC One - Planet Earth II
Word Challenge
Bowerbirds can be found in Australia. The word ‘Australia’ starts and ends with the same letter.
List all of the words that appear in the ‘Did you know?’ paragraph that start and end with the same letter.
Grammar Challenge
Starting with a simile, copy and complete the following sentence.
Like _______________ , he adorned his bower with a scarlet heart.
Number Challenge
- There are 27 different species of bowerbird.
27 appears in the following cubed number sequence:
1, 8, 27, 64, …
What is the next number in this sequence?
Hint:
1 = 1x1x1 8 = 2x2x2 27 = 3x3x3
Critical Thinking
What do you think is more important when building something – how it looks or what it can do? Explain your answer.