Morning Starters: Autumn 1 - Life Cycles
Did You Know?
A frog’s life cycle is an amazing journey of transformation. It starts as a jelly-like egg that hatches into a wriggling tadpole, complete with a tail and gills. Over time, the tadpole grows legs, loses its tail and develops lungs – an epic reconstruction to become an amphibian that can leap around on land.
Credit: BBC Four - Metamorphosis: The Science of Change
Word Challenge
The word ‘transformation’ ends in the ‘shun’ sound.
Make a list of words that end in the ‘shun’ sound.
Help: Words ending in ‘-tion’. ‘-cian’ and ‘-sion’ also make the ‘shun’ sound.
Grammar Challenge
Rewrite the sentence below with different adjectives to those 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?
Critical Thinking
Fact: Some frog species have taken to the air, gliding from tree to tree.
Describe or draw what you think a flying frog looks like.