Grasshopper and the Ants

  The ants and the grasshopper

Find Specific Information

1.  What bush creatures are included in the story? Wasps, huhu grubs, grasshoppers, ants. 

2. What did the grasshopper do during the first summer of the story? Relax in the sun and play music and then the huhu grubs invited him to a party 

3. What services did the grasshopper provide the ants over winter? He served them food and he fixed the roof when it was leaking and he stayed awake when the ants were sleeping.

4. How did the huhu grubs pay the grasshopper? Food.  

Show your understanding

1.Why did the grasshopper decide to charge the huhu grubs for making music for them? For their party. He wanted to earn food and pay back the ants

2. Why did the ants sigh at the grasshopper? Because it was so typical of a grasshopper to do this .

3. Why did the grasshopper ask the huhu grubs to give some food to the ants? Because the ants saved his life and he wanted to pay them back by giving them food for the next winter.

4. What elements of fable did this story have? Animals that behave like humans and make us learn a lesson.

Find the Moral =  make hay while the sun shines= to prepare when you can before the hard times come 

Describe a character = Grasshopper

He plays music all summer and does not work and does not collect food for winter.

Make inferences =  the ants talk in sharp sentences because there are a

 lot of them and because they are too busy.