Busy Ants

Author: Kanchan Bannerjee

Illustrator: Deepa Balsavar

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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Cover page: Ants nibbling on food , by Deepa Balsavar © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 2: Child watching a row of ants , by Deepa Balsavar © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 3: Girl and dog watching a row of ants , by Deepa Balsavar © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 4: Ants on wheels , by Deepa Balsavar © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 5: Ants feasting on a lollipop while a child, dog and cat wail , by Deepa Balsavar © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 6: Ants marching towards a cake , by Deepa Balsavar © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 7: Floor being wiped, ants crawling away , by Deepa Balsavar © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 8: Ants feasting on an assortment of sweets , by Deepa Balsavar © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 9: Ant carrying a round, green object , by Deepa Balsavar © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 10: Ants crawling towards a shelf filled with food , by Deepa Balsavar © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Page 11: Colony of ants , by Deepa Balsavar © Pratham Books, 2015. Some rights reserved. Released under CC BY 4.0 license. Disclaimer: https://www.storyweaver.org.in/terms_and_conditions

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Busy Ants (English)

Follow the ants in this book. They are sure to keep young readers busy. This book is one of the four books in the 'Animals Around Us' series.

This is a Level 1 book for children who are eager to begin reading.

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