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My Year, Roald Dahl

MARCH

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 (Heinemann New Windmill Series, 1997)  

1. What season is it? ____________

2. List four colours that the author can see from his window:

___________    ___________    ___________    ___________

3. How high above the ground is the blackbirds’ nest? ____________

3. Label the diagram of an egg, using these words: shell, white, yolk

  4. Read Page 18.  The following sentences tell you how to remove the white and yolk
    from an egg.  They are mixed up.  Put them in the correct order.
 

• Blow gently through the pipette.
• Place the egg on some cotton wool in  a safe place.
• Drill a tiny hole in the shell.
• (The white and yolk will come out of the hole.)
• Insert the pipette into the hole.
• Get a small drill.
• Take a pipette with a thin, curved end.

1. ______________________________________________
2. ______________________________________________
3. ______________________________________________
4. ______________________________________________
5. ______________________________________________
6. ______________________________________________
7. ______________________________________________
 

5. Complete the following table:
 
 

BIRD	COLOUR OF EGG	OTHER INFORMATION
Nightingale	.	.
Guillemot	.	.
.	Different colours and speckles	.
Wren	-----	.
.	-----	The largest

 

6. Saffron is made from ____________________________________

7. It is used for __________________________________________

8. Read the following description of a flower.  Label the diagram, using the underlined
    words.
 

A flower gets water and nutrients from the soil through its roots.  This food passes through the stem into the leaves and the head of the flower.  A new leaf is called a bud before it opens out.

The centre of the flower is called the stigma.  The ovary is inside the stigma.  Long, thin stamens grow all around the stigma.  The top of a stamen is called the anther.  Anthers produce a fine dust called pollen.  The stigma and stamens are surrounded by colourful petals.

   
 
 
9. Listen carefully to the teacher and complete the following description of how a
    flower reproduces.
 

The anthers in a flower produce __________.  Bees and other insects visit the flower to drink nectar.  Some of the pollen sticks on their bodies and they carry it to other flowers.  The pollen falls onto the ___________ of another flower.  It grows down through the ___________into the _________.  This makes the ovary produce ___________.  Later, the ovary bursts and the seeds are carried away by __________________.  When they fall on wet soil, they _____________ and grow into a new flower.

10. What nouns can we make from the following verbs?

                    VERB                            NOUN

reproduce                     reproduction
pollinate
germinate

11. Read a book about plants and find out how another plant reproduces.
     Write a short description of what happens.
 
 

 Frankie Meehan