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Year 2 Reading Challenge Summer 2 2023

Mr Carter

If you can, read the text by yourself or you can have someone read it to you.

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BRONZE
What are minibeasts?
Give 2 facts about one of the minibeasts.

SILVER
Please answer these questions in full sentences:
How do grasshopper make noise?
How are bees useful to humans?
Why do snails often try to hide?

GOLD
Use a dictionary to find the meaning of these words:
* environment     *species     *pollen    *quantity    *threatened

PLATINUM
Research a minibeast of your choice using the internet or books and create a poster displaying key facts. Be creative – make it colourful, neat and add pictures. REMEMBER! Don’t just copy everything you read. Use your OWN words.

57 responses to “Year 2 Reading Challenge Summer 2 2023”

  1. Bilaal K.

    Minibeasts are bugs that do not have a backbone.
    Some minibeasts are spiders, worms, and snails.
    Grasshoppers rub their wings to make noise.

    SILVER
    Grasshoppers rub their wings to make noise.
    They transport pollen and make honey for us to eat.
    If the weathers to dry then the snail will stay in its shell for months.

    GOLD
    Environment- The things around us.
    Species- A species is a distinct group of animals or plants that have common characteristics
    and breed with each other.

  2. Kayla P.

    Bronze Challenge

    What are minibeasts?
    Minibeast are small animals that don’t have a backbone.

    Give 2 facts about one of the minibeasts.

    Honey bees:

    1. Honey bees can be found all over the world.
    2. Honey bees make honey using nectar from flowers.

    Silver Challenge:

    How do grasshopper make noise?

    Grasshoppers make noise by making music by rubbing their wings together or on their legs.

    How are bees useful to humans?

    Bees are useful to humans because they make honey for humans to eat.

    Why do snails often try to hide?

    Snails often try to hide if the weather is too dry.

    Gold Challenge:

    Environment: the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

    Speices: a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with each other.

    Pollen: a fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone

    Quantity: The amount or number of something.

    Threatened: In danger or likely to stop existing.

  3. Maximilian J.

    Bronze

    Minibeasts are tiny, small creatures that have no spine/backbone.
    A fly.
    A fly beats it’s wings 200 time’s a second.
    They can walk upside down using there sticky toe pads.

    Silver

    Grasshoppers make sounds by rubbing there feet or wings.
    Bees are helpful for humans because they make honey 🍯 for humans.
    Snails 🐌 have to hide from to dry weather’s and rainy weather’s because they don’t want to get too hot or cold/wet but they can survive without wather so they need to drink a lot wather he’s buddy need 80% wather to live.

  4. Aiyla S.

    BRONZE

    What are minibeasts?
    Minibeasts are small animals that dont have a backbone

    Give 2 facts about one of the minibeasts.

    Honey bees can be found all around the world.
    A fly beats its wings 200 times a second

    SILVER
    How do grasshopper make noise?
    Grasshoppers make music by rubbing their wings together or on their legs

    How are bees useful to humans?
    Bees make honey using nectar from flowers which is useful to humans.

    Why do snails often try to hide?
    When the weather is too dry the snails will hide in their shells for months.

    Gold

    Envirmoment – The surroudings and conditions in which a person,animal or plant lives or operates

    Species- a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring

    Pollen- The fertilizing element of flowering plants, consisting of fine powdery yellowish grains or spores, sometimes in masses

    Quantity- an sxact or specified amount of measure

    Threatened- when you feel in danger

  5. Dhonshan R.

    Bronze
    Minibeasts are small animals that don’t have backbone.
    Moths have hairy bodies to keep them warm.
    They have attracted to lights
    Silver
    1) Grasshoppers can make music by rubbing their wings together or their legs.
    2) Bees make honey for human.
    3)They can hide in their shells for moths.
    Gold
    Environment-This is a noun.

  6. Yusuf A.

    ■ SILVER CHALLENGE

    How do grasshopper make noise?
    – They user their legs

    How are bees useful to humans?
    – They can make us honey

    Why do snails often try to hide?
    – To avoid being killed by predators

    ■ GOLD CHALLENGE

    Use a dictionary to find the meaning of these words:

    Environment
    – The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.

    Species
    – A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.

    Pollen
    – A fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone.

    Quantity
    – The amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement.

    Threatened
    – State one’s intention to take hostile action against (someone) in retribution for something.

  7. Waniya Z.

    Bronze Challenge:

    Mini beasts are small animals that have no back bones
    Butterflies start of as eggs, then caterpillars and then become butterflies.
    They used to be called flutter-bys.

    Sliver Challenge:

    A grasshopper makes noises by rubbing their wings together on their legs.

    Bees are useful to humans as they collect nectar to make honey, which we eat.

    Snails often hide if the weather is too dry. They are usually found when the weather is dark and damp.

  8. Esa I.

    Bronze A minibeast is a insects that do not have a backbone like a snail,spider,beetles,slugs,worms,ants,butterfly,starfish and crabs and more…
    —————————-‐——————
    Silver 1. They make music by rubbing their wings together or on their legs.
    2.They help produce 1/3 of our food.
    0 help pollinate the plants for more oxygen.
    3.They often hide because of prediters and people.
    ———————————————-
    Gold pollen is found in the flowers. special is likenve a special gift. Threatened when you are scared of something. Quantity The amount of something. Environment means your surroundings and the place where you live around.

  9. Noah M.

    Pollen is powdery and subanstance.

  10. Noah M.

    1. They make honey.
    2. If they feel danger.
    Environment is surroundings and condition of plant human or animal.
    Quantity mean number or materials.
    Species: It is a group of organisations.
    Threatened: when someone is scared.

  11. Noah M.

    Mini beasts are little creatures .
    By rubbing there ears on there legs

  12. Salman O.

    Bronze: Minibeasts are small insects.

    A fly beats its wings 200 times a second.
    A house fly lives for about 21 days
    Silver:
    They make noise by rubbing their wings together or on their legs.
    Because they make honey for human.

    Because they get dry from the sun.

    Gold : environment : the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and plants live.
    Species: a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with each other.
    Pollen :a powder, produced by the male part of a flower, that causes the female part of the same type of flower to produce seeds. It is carried by insects or the wind.
    Quantity : the amount or number of something, especially that can be measured.
    Threatened : in danger, or likely to stop existing.

  13. Salman O.

    Bronze: Minibeasts are small insects.

    A fly beats its wings 200 times a second.
    A house fly lives for about 21 days.

    Silver:
    They make noise by rubbing their wings together or on their legs.

    Gold : environment : the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and plants live.
    Species: a set of animals or plants in which the members have similar characteristics to each other and can breed with each other.
    Pollen :a powder, produced by the male part of a flower, that causes the female part of the same type of flower to produce seeds. It is carried by insects or the wind.
    Quantity : the amount or number of something, especially that can be measured.
    Threatened : in danger, or likely to stop existing.

    Because they make honey for human.

    Because they get dry from the sun.

  14. Maryam K.

    Bronze
    1. Minibeasts are small animals that don’t have a backbone.
    2. Honey bees can be found all over the world.
    Dragonflies have been on the earth before dinosaurs were around.
    Silver
    1. Grasshoppers make music by rubbing their wings together or on their legs.
    2. Bees are useful to humans because they make honey for us.
    3. Snails often try to hide because they don’t like light.
    Gold
    Environment = The surroundings in which a person, animal or plant lives
    Species = A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals
    Pollen = a yellow powdery substance consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower
    Quantity = the amount or number of a material
    Threatened = cause someone or something to be vulnerable or at risk
    Platinum
    I have completed this in my book.

  15. Nichollas B.

    Minibeast are small animala that don’t have a backbone : snails,spiders ,beetles,slugs,worms,ants,butterflies,starfish,crabs….
    Honey need can be fiind all over the world. Bees can sting,they make honey using nectar from flowers.
    Environm=section of the natural world
    The environment of the Amazon can be difficult for humans
    Species=types of animala,types of plantes
    Polen=fertilizing seed
    Quantity=large amount
    Threatened=to be amenace
    =speak threats
    =clouds,Sky:look like rain

  16. Shaheer N.

    Centipedes live up to three years.
    Centipedes eat other minibeasts.

  17. Hasnaa N.

    Centipedes can live up three years.
    Centipedes eat other minibeasts and also
    centipedes.

  18. Zenat N.

    Centipedes live to three years.
    Centipedes eat other minibeats

  19. Sara H.

    bronze
    minibeasts are insects that dont have a backbone.
    dragonflies have 30,000 lenses and humans have only 1.
    dragonflies have beel living on earth even before dinosaurs.

    silver
    grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their wings together or on their legs.
    bees are harmful to humans because they can sting them.
    snails try to hide by going in their shells.

    gold
    environment is a place where humans and animals and other living these stay and live.
    species is a group or kind of humans, animals or living things that share the same skills.
    pollen is little powdery dots that you find inside flowers that male bees leave.
    quantity is the amount of something or how much it is.
    threatened is being scared or not feeling safe because of someone or something else.

  20. Nabira M.

    Mini beast are bugs and they don’t have bones in their body.
    Butterfly taste with their feet.
    They don’t have mouth and they drink water with their toung.
    Silver
    Grasshopper rub his wings on legs and make noise.

  21. Anu K.

    Bronze:
    1. Minibeasts are small animals that don’t have a backbone.
    1a. Butterflies:
    – Butterflies taste with their feet.
    – Butterflies start as eggs, they then become caterpillars and then they turn into a butterfly.

    Silver:
    2. Grasshoppers rub their legs and their wings together to make noise.
    2a. Bees are useful to humans because they make honey by using nectar from flowers.
    2b. Snails often hide in their shells for months because they don’t like dry weather.

    Gold:
    Environment= It means to be surrounded by physical things.
    Species= Are a group of similar living things.
    Pollen: Is a fine powder produced by certain plants.
    Quantity= is an amount or number of something.
    Threantened= Is when someone does a bad action towards someone else which could affect them negatively.

  22. Maryum N.

    Minibeasts are small animals that don’t have a backbone.
    Snails ants worms butterflies.

    Wasps live I nests of around 10.000 workers and 1 queen.
    They eat fruit nectar flowers and other insects.

    Silver
    Grasshoppers can make music by rubbing there wings on there legs.

    Bees are useful to humans as they make honey for us to eat.

    When it’s to dry snails can hide in there shells for months.

  23. Emraan A.

    Bronze
    Minibeasts are small animals that don’t have a backbone
    snails, spiders, beetles, slugs, worms, ants, butterflies, starfish, crabs
    Silver
    they make music by rubbing their wings together or on their legs
    honey bees talk to each other by dancing
    if the weather’s too dry, they can hide in their shells for months
    Gold
    Environment means that the surrodings or conditions in which a person animals or plants live or operates
    Species means that a group of living organisms consisting of similar individual capable of ex changing genes
    Pollen means a fine powdery substance , typically yellow consisting of microscopic grains are discharged
    Quality means the amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial
    Threatened means State one intonation to take hoztie action against

  24. Murtaza A.

    Pollen – a fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part of a flower or from a male cone

    Quantity – the amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement.

    Threatened – cause (someone or something) to be vulnerable or at risk; endanger.

  25. Murtaza A.

    Bronze

    What are mini-beasts?
    Mini beasts are small insects.
    Mini beasts live under objects.
    Mini beasts are small.

    Silver

    How do grasshopper make noise?
    Grasshoppers makes noise by rubbing their hind legs together.

    How are bees useful to humans?
    Bees collect pollen so they can make honey for us humans that’s how they are useful.

    Why do snails often try to hide?
    Snails try to hide to avoid predators and water loss so they hide to protect themselves.

    Gold

    Environment – The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
    Species – A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
    Pollen –
    Quantity –
    Threatened –

  26. Advika B.

    Minibeasts are tiny creatures that can fly and swim and walk on a surface.
    Minibeasts are small and sometimes dangerous.
    Grasshoppers make noises when they rub their legs together.
    Honey bees can also be useful to humans because they can make honey out of nectar .
    When the surface is too dry snails can hide in their shells for months .
    Environment means is the circumstances and conditions in which you live or work.
    Species means a division of plants plants or animals whose members have the same characteristics and are able to breed breed with each other.

  27. Bilal U.

    Bronze
    Minibeasts are bugs that don’t have a backbone.
    Centipedes can live up to three years.
    Centipedes eat other minibeasts and centipedes.

    Silver
    Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing there wings together or on their legs.

    Bees are useful to humans because they pollenate the flowers and turn the nectar to honey which we eat.

    The snails hide in damp places and come out at night.

    1. Bilal U.

      I have completed my platinum challenge my minibeast centipede poster.

    2. Adam A.

      1.Bronze minibests are tiny little animals snails hide in there shels when its hot

  28. Amina I.

    Bronze – Minibeast are creatures who lives in micro habitat.

    Daddy longlegs have 8 legs and they only have one eye.

    Silver –
    Grasshopper makes make music by rubbing their wings together or on their legs.
    Bees are useful for humans because they make honey.
    The snails hide if the weather’s too dry and they can hide in their shells for months.

    Environment means – the surrounding or conditions in which a person animal or plant lives.
    Species means – a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile off spring.

    Pollen means – a fine powdery substance produced by the anthers of seed-bearing plants, consisting of numerous fine grains containing the male gametes.

    quantity means – the amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement.

    Threatened means – in danger.

  29. Amina I.

    Bronze
    mini beat are cr

  30. Iqra F.

    What are minibeasts?
    A ‘minibeast’ is simply a small animal. Spiders, snails, slugs, beetles, centipedes, worms, earwigs, caterpillars are just a few.

    Give 2 facts about one of the minibeasts.

    Butterflies are insects. They have 3 body parts: a head, thorax (middle part) and abdomen (tail end). They also have 6 legs and 4 wings. They can see ultraviolet light and so see flowers very differently to humans!

    Caterpillars are insects, just like their parent butterflies or moths. They have six proper legs, like all insects, but also up to five pairs of stumpy prolegs with little hooks that help them to hang onto things, and to move in a wave-like motion.

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