Busy Ants

Hello, I am the fourth one in the line. Can you see me?

Left, right, left, right. We walk silently in a line.

I just got an idea. I am going to get a set of WHEELS to move faster!

We are not noisy like other animals. Ours is a language of smells.

One kind of smell says, “Follow me this way for a feast.”

Another smell says, “Danger! Do not go there.”

I love cakes and all kinds of sweets, just like you.

Want to see my muscles at work? I may look very tiny to you, but I am very strong.

Never mind if the door is shut. I can slip through the smallest crack.

Believe it or not, hundreds of us live happily in a colony.

LET US LEARN SOME NEW WORDS. Small - Big Slow - Fast Short - Tall Thin - Fat Hard - Soft Noisy - Quiet Here are some words with their opposites. Can you make a sentence for each pair of opposite words? For example, ‘An ant is small; an elephant is big'. “As busy as an ant” is a nice way to describe someone who is very hard working.

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Busy Ants (English), written by Kanchan Bannerjee, illustrated by Deepa Balsavar, published by Pratham Books, used under CC BY. · View on StoryWeaver
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