Morning Starters: Autumn 1 - Marvellous Metals
Did You Know?
Did you know your body has enough iron to make a small nail? Iron is in your red blood cells, helping them carry oxygen around your body. It even gives blood its red colour! Without enough iron, you’d feel tired. Foods like spinach and meat help keep your iron levels strong.
🪜 Spelling Steps!
Follow the steps: Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check
Do this three times for the following words:
enough →
oxygen →
spinach →
🧩 Connect
Join the two simple sentences to make one long sentence.
She was constantly tired.
Her diet didn’t have enough iron.
Help: Use conjunctions and change the sentence order if you need to.
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Problem Solve
Fact: Copper starts to melt at 1,085 °C.
Use the above fact to answer the question below.
Iron needs to be 453 degrees hotter than copper to start melting.
At what temperature does iron start to melt?
Answer: ________ °C.
🤔 The Big Question
What if people had skeletons made of metal instead of bone?
🗣️Prepare an answer in your head to say out loud.
Sentence stem: One good thing might be … A major problem would be …
