Morning Starters: Autumn 1 - Life Cycles
Did You Know?
A frog’s life cycle is an amazing journey of transformation. Starting as jelly-like eggs, they hatch into wriggly tadpoles, complete with tails and gills. Over time, these tadpoles grow legs, lose their tails and develop lungs – an epic reconstruction to become frogs that leap on land.
Word Challenge
Some words like ‘reconstruction’ and ‘transformation’ end in the ‘shun’ sound.
Make a list of words that end in the ‘shun’ sound.
Hint: You could include words that end in the suffixes ‘-tion’, ‘-sion’ and ‘-cian’.
Grammar Challenge
Rewrite the sentence below, using alternative adjectives to the ones underlined.
Surrounded by floating lily pads, the slender-tailed tadpole, swam across the milky pond.
Number Challenge
Approximately, how many eggs are there in this clump of frogspawn? How do you know?
Critical Thinking
Some frog species have taken to the air, gliding from tree to tree.
Describe or draw what you think a flying frog might look like.