Happy 2022!
We hope you all had a very restful and healthy Christmas. It’s lovely to have all the children back in school again.
Year 5 and 6 have started a new science unit this half term all about evolution and inheritance. They have a new set of vocabulary that they will be getting their heads around!
- evolution: change in living things over time
- inherited: the way that a trait or characteristic is passed to offspring from parents
- trait: a quality or characteristic belonging to something
- adaptation: a small change that a living thing goes through
- natural selection: a process in which living things adapt themselves in order to survive, that they don’t have any control over
- prehistoric: the time classed is ‘before history’ as it was so long ago it hasn’t been recorded or written
- variety: differences between things as part of a whole group
- fossil: the prehistoric remains of a plant or animal
Could you help your child learn these words at home? You could create some flashcards with images on that might help jog their memory, you could create a poster of the words. Could you describe one of the words and your child has to guess which word from the list it is? Be creative and have fun!