The Caterpillar Has More

10/10/2020 4:41:00 PM

Do you know?

A caterpillar's first meal is usually its eggshell.
Caterpillars have 12 eyes.

Let's explore!

Listen and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Which is UNTRUE about your muscles?
Where is your largest muscle?

Which is UNTRUE about your muscles?

They make your heart pump blood.
They push food down your body.
All your muscles make up most of your body weight.

Where is your largest muscle?

In your ears
In your buttocks
In your legs

Complete the text you are listening to by dragging the correct word to each blank.

The Caterpillar Has More

You are bigger than a caterpillar. Yet there is something a caterpillar has more of than you. It has a lot more. What can it be?

Your muscles help you move. They make your heart 3.1 blood. They 3.2 food down your body. Some of your muscles are big. Others are small. All your muscles 3.3 about half of your body 3.4. How many muscles do you have? You have more than six hundred muscles. A caterpillar is small, but it has more. It has more than 4,000 muscles!

Your smallest muscle is in your ear. Your largest muscle is in your buttocks. Take a simple step 3.5. How many muscles did you use? You used just over fifty muscles!

Read and answer the following questions.

The Caterpillar Has More

*Caterpillar. Image: Health Clevel And Clinic*

You are bigger than a caterpillar. Yet there is something a caterpillar has more of than you. It has a lot more. What can it be?

Your muscles help you move. They make your heart pump blood. They push food down your body. Some of your muscles are big. Others are small. All your muscles make up about half of your body weight. How many muscles do you have? You have more than six hundred muscles. A caterpillar is small, but it has more. It has more than 4,000 muscles!

Your smallest muscle is in your ear. Your largest muscle is in your buttocks. Take a simple step forward. How many muscles did you use? You used just over fifty muscles!

Source: Daily Warm-ups Reading Grade 2

You have over _____

50 muscles.
600 muscles.
4,000 muscles.
6,000 muscles.

What statement do you know has to be true about your smallest muscle?

It helps you eat.
It helps you walk.
It is in your ear.
It makes your heart pump.

Most likely, a caterpillar has more muscles because _____

of its weight.
it is smaller.
it has bigger ears.
of the way it moves.

Put the right word in each blank. The sentences are from the text.

1. Your 7.1 help you move.

2. Take a simple step 7.2.

3. They make your heart 7.3 blood.

4. They 7.4 food down your body.

5. All your muscles 7.5 about half of your body 7.6.

Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.

1. The heart 8.1 blood around the body.

2. He helped me 8.2 my car off the road.

3. Girls 8.3 more than half of the classroom.

4. My 8.4 reduces when I stop eating sugar.

5. She went 8.5 and waved her hands to everyone.