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Maths – Linear number sequences
Quick Practice – Complete the following number sequences
Main Lesson – Describing linear sequences
___ -7 - 4 ___ ___ ___
___ 1.5 3 ___ ___ ___
___ 1,000 1,500 ___ ___
___ 55 44 ___ ___ ___
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Reading – Chapter 10 Careless Talk Costs Lives
Read chapter 10 (pp. 93 -103) of ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ and answer the following questions (full sentences please)
1) Find and copy three phrases that describe the lighthouse keeper p.94 2) On p.94, Ephraim says about the dog, Pixie, ‘she has taken to you’
What does this mean and how do we know that this does normally not happen?
3) On p.95, the author describes the walk up to the lighthouse. What impression does the reader get of the lighthouse? Use evidence from the text.
4) On p.99, Olive describes the new room that she and her brother will sleep in at the lighthouse. How does the reader know that she is happy with her new room? Use evidence from the text.
Writing – Build a sentence/paragraph
Here are the final paragraphs of the model text.
Underline or highlight the part of the text you want to edit and rewrite your improved version on the lines underneath.
If you need more space and you are writing more independently, please use the lined paper.
Your ideas, your writing, you are in charge!
A big blast went off at our feet and we were thrown to the ground. We saw the face of
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someone we knew. We waved, trying to get their attention as we ran towards them.
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Everything around us was happening in slow motion, people were leaving this Earth, their
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friends were trying to help them or get cover from the rain of bullets to save themselves.
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We were caught in No Mans’ Land and could not go any further. We sat and waited in
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silence. The noise was overwhelming, and it began to interfere with our senses, what were
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we to do? All we could do was sit and watch as this horrible battle played out in front of us,
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the impact of the explosions. My breaths were getting shorter and shorter and I knew I was
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going to have to do something soon.
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We hugged each other tight, not knowing if this was going to be the last thing we ever did.
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A hand reached out and we turned around. We saw his face and we knew that we would be
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okay.
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Talk Task: How did soldiers get help if they were hurt or unwell?
World War 1 soldiers served for months at a time. If they got injured, they were given first aid on site or they were sent to an armed forces hospital. What are the possible advantages and
disadvantages of having armed forces hospitals?
Lesson 3
Why do animals adapt?
Key Knowledge
Key Vocabulary
• Living things have adapted, or changed, over time to be able to survive in their environment.
• Some adaptations help the living thing survive the climate.
• Some adaptations enable the living thing to get the nutrition it needs to survive (food or water).
• adapt
• adaptation
• characteristics
• environment
Knowledge Quiz 3.2
1. Why does a cactus have spines?
2. How do the cactus spines do this?
3. Which of these characteristics of a polar bear are not adaptations to help it swim:
4. Which of these characteristics of a polar bear are for keeping it warm:
they are green
sunlight can get in
smaller so less
falls straight to the
smaller so rain
ground
smaller so less
surface area
to keep heat in
to slow evaporation
to stop evaporation
to keep it cool
small ears
that flatten
strong front paws
fur under the paw
nose closes
layer of blubber
under the skin
black skin
fur under the paw
small ears that
flatten
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What adaptations do you think a Horse Chestnut seed (conker) has?
What do you think would happen if it didn’t have these adaptations?
How is the penguin different to other birds but similar to a polar bear?
Penguins, like the polar bear, live in extremely cold conditions. Unlike the polar bear though, their habitat is located in
Antarctica. Although they are flightless birds, they are excellent swimmers.
When on land, penguins have adapted to live in packs and they huddle together to keep warm. However, penguins spend much of their time in the sea where temperatures range from -2.2°C to +2°C. In order to be active and able to swim, penguins
must make sure they keep their body temperature high. Much like the polar bear, penguins have adaptations to help keep it warm. They too have thick skin with a layer of fat (blubber) under this. Instead of having black skin, penguins have dark feathers to absorb the warmth from the sun. These feathers are also tightly packed and overlap one another to further insulate them. Not only does the overlapping help with insulation, this adaptation also aids waterproofing, critical for
keeping warm in water. Further waterproofing is provided by a coating of special oil which is secreted onto the feathers from a gland near to the bird’s tail.
Penguins’ wings have adapted to enable them to be proficient swimmers. Shaped like flippers, they have well
developed muscles which propel them through the water. As a consequence, they are unable to fly, however, their movement through the water has been compared to flying as the motion is very similar. In addition to their strong wings, penguins also have powerful webbed feet. Their bodies are streamlined to reduce drag. Although they cannot breathe there, penguins swim underwater for as long as possible as this reduction in drag helps them to conserve energy. To aid this, unlike other birds, a penguin’s bones do not have air spaces in them, but, instead are heavy and solid. These act like weights and allow the bird to overcome buoyancy and so stay down.
Penguins eat fish which they catch while they are in the water. Instead of teeth, the inside of their beaks and their tongues are covered in stiff spines that prevent fish from squirming loose and, instead, guide them down the penguin’s throat.
Complete the table below with information about how a penguin is
like and unlike a polar bear and like and unlike other birds.
Like a Penguin
Unlike a Penguin
Polar
Bear
Other
birds
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Use the table below to write down as many different types of animal
adaptations as you can.
These can be from animals previously covered in this booklet or any others you know. The first two have been done for you.
Adaptation: Can see in the
dark.
Purpose: To help it move
around at night so it can catch its prey but avoid its own predators.
Adaptation: prehensile tail (like
a monkey has)
Purpose: To help it balance
Think of an environment. This could be a desert, a rain forest, a mountain range, the Arctic/ Antarctic or anywhere else you like.
Write it here:
You are going to design your own vertebrate to live in your chosen environment.
Choose six of the adaptations above that you think would help it to survive. Mark them with a tick.
Draw your vertebrate in its habitat here and annotate the drawing to show
how the adaptations help it to survive.
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