Morning Starters: Autumn 2 - Resilient & Resourceful
Did You Know?
In Japan, crows have mastered the art of nut cracking. Perched high above a pedestrian crossing, a crafty crow will drop a nut onto the road below and wait patiently for a car to smash it open. Once the traffic light turns red, the resourceful crow swoops down to retrieve its prize, avoiding the risk of being run over!
Credit: BBC Four - The Life of Birds
Word Challenge
The word ‘resourceful’ ends in the suffix ‘-ful.‘
List some more words that end in the suffix ‘-ful’ and could be used to describe a crow.
Grammar Challenge
Write a sentence about a Japanese crow that starts with the word ‘determined.’
Example: Determined and resourceful, the crafty crow dropped the nut onto the road below.
Number Challenge
A crow drops 3 nuts every 10 minutes onto a busy pedestrian crossing.
If it starts dropping nuts at 8:00 am, how many nuts will it have dropped by 11:00 am?
Critical Thinking
Can you think of a story or a movie where a character showed great resourcefulness?