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    A grasshopper spends his summer singing and playing while an ant stores food for winter. When winter comes, the grasshopper has no food while the ant is prepared. The grasshopper asks the ant for food but is denied because he did not prepare like the ant. The story teaches the importance of preparing for the future.

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    The Ant and The Grasshopper

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    A grasshopper spends his summer singing and playing while an ant stores food for winter. When winter comes, the grasshopper has no food while the ant is prepared. The grasshopper asks the ant for food but is denied because he did not prepare like the ant. The story teaches the importance of preparing for the future.

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    A grasshopper spends his summer singing and playing while an ant stores food for winter. When winter comes, the grasshopper has no food while the ant is prepared. The grasshopper asks the ant for food but is denied because he did not prepare like the ant. The story teaches the importance of preparing for the future.

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    A grasshopper spends his summer singing and playing while an ant stores food for winter. When winter comes, the grasshopper has no food while the ant is prepared. The grasshopper asks the ant for food but is denied because he did not prepare like the ant. The story teaches the importance of preparing for the future.

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    The Ant One bright summer day, a

    grasshopper was hopping through


    and the a field of flowers. He chirped and

    Grasshopper sang as he played his violin. Right


    in the middle of his favorite song,
    a retelling he heard a terrible groaning sound.
    of an
    Aesop fable “Who has spoiled my music?” he
    cried. Looking around, he spotted
    a tiny ant struggling to carry a
    plump kernel of corn. “Ant, you have
    interrupted my singing. Where are
    you going with that heavy load?”
    “I am storing food for the winter,”
    Ant puffed.
    “Winter? Can you see the blue
    sky? Can you feel the warm sun?
    Winter is far from this field,”
    laughed Grasshopper.
    “Winter will be here before you
    know it,” said Ant.

    © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. Credits: left: © Drew Rose/Wilkinson Studios, Inc.
    www.readinga-z.com
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    “Come play with me,” sang Grasshopper joined the line. When
    Grasshopper. “There will be plenty of he reached the front, he bent low
    time for storing food later.” He danced and begged in a weak voice.
    around making fun of Ant, but she “Please, may I have some corn
    continued on her way. Grasshopper to eat? I am so hungry.”
    sang and danced for many more days.
    “Did you store any food for the
    Soon the weather turned cold. winter?” asked the Ant.
    Grasshopper woke up one day to a
    “I was too busy playing music. The
    field of snow. All the food was buried
    summer was gone before I knew it,”
    deep. He could not dig through to
    Grasshopper said.
    reach it no matter how hard he tried.
    Ant sadly shook
    “What will I do?” he cried.
    her head no. Then
    DID YOU
    KNOW?
    Then he had an she continued
    idea. Grasshopper handing corn
    An ant can lift
    20 times its own stumbled to Ant’s to her fellow ants.
    body weight. That hill. A line of ants
    means, if you The moral is: Prepare
    stood waiting as his
    were as strong as today for the needs
    an ant, you would friend handed out
    of tomorrow.
    be able to pick up the delicious looking
    a small car!
    pieces of corn.

    © Learning A–Z All rights reserved. Credits: right: © Drew Rose/Wilkinson Studios, Inc.
    www.readinga-z.com
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