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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. Fathima U.

    Idk what happend maybe it’s Auto
    spell

  2. Fathima U.

    Bronze:
    A minibeast is a insect or spider
    1.spiders have 8 legs
    2.insects normally have 6 legs
    Silver:
    1:Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their legs together
    2:Honey bee’s make Hong by sticking pollen to there body the take up the. Home and out it in there mouth and vomit in out then it cools and becomes honey
    3:to avoid harmfull things such as humans we often step on them or kill them with salt or special type of liquid
    Gold:
    1: environment-external conditions and surroundinhs in which people,animals or plants live

  3. Warizah I.

    Bronze
    Mini beasts are small animals that don’t have a backbone.

    Silver
    Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their legs together.
    The bees make honey using the nectar from the flowers.
    Snails often try to hide to avoid predators.

  4. Aesha M.

    Grasshopper make noise with their legs and wings. Minibeast are smell animal that don’t have backbone.

  5. Liliana S.

    Bronze:
    Minibeast are small animals that don’t have a backbone.
    The grasshopper has 2 wings and can make music by rubbing the wings or legs.
    Silver:
    The grasshopper makes sounds by rubbing their wings or legs.
    The bees make honey using the nectar from the flowers.
    The snails often try to hide when the weather is dry.
    Gold:
    environment- surrounding,
    species- a group of the same creatures,
    pollen-yellow powder in flowers,
    quantity- a number or amount of something,
    threatened- being in danger or at risk.

  6. Sanya S.

    Silver:
    They run there legs together to make a noise

    They help make honey and pollinate our flowers

    Snails hide in dark areas to hid from there predators

  7. Haseeb B.

    Silver
    Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their legs together or their wings
    Becaus they can hide under there shells 🐚 for a month
    Gold
    A specie is a class of plant or animal, whose members have the same main characteristics and are able to breed with each other.
    Pollen is a fine powder produced by flowers. It fertilizes are the flowers of the same species so that they produce seeds.
    Someone environment is all the circumstances, people, things, and events around them, that influence their life.
    If you feel threatened you feel as if someone is trying to harm you.
    A quantity is an amount that you can measure.

  8. Manuela M.

    Bronze
    Minibeasts are creatures without backbones.
    Silver
    A grasshopper makes a chirping sound by rubbing one of its legs against the front part of its wing.
    Bees are useful to humans because they give us honey.
    Snails often try to hide to avoid predators.
    Gold
    Environment-natural world
    Species-group of living organisms
    Pollen-yellow powder
    Quantity- the amount of number of a material
    Threatened -endanger

  9. Iqra A.

    Bronze
    Minibeast are small animals that’s don’t have backbone.
    Butterflys 🦋 have lovely pattern on they wings and the can fly supper high.
    Silver:

    How do grasshopper make noise?
    A: They make music by rubbing they wings together or on their legs.
    How are bees useful to humans?
    A: Bees useful to humans because the make honey using nectar from flower 🌼.
    Why do snails often try to hide?
    A: Snail often try to hide because they don’t eaten by bride.
    Gold:
    Environment:- The surroundings or conditions in which a person,animal, or plant lives or operates.
    Species:- Is a group of living creatures which are all the same .
    Pollen:-Pollen powder usually yellow in flowers carried by other plants / flowers of the same kind by wind , insect etc to make new seeds
    Quantity:- The amount or number of a materials or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement.
    Threatened:- state one’s intention to take hostile action against (someone) in retribution for something done or not.

  10. Haseeb B.

    Bronze
    Honeybees can be found all over the world 🌎.
    Bees can sting but only once honeybees talk to each other by dancing they make honey 🍯 using nectar from flower 🌺

  11. Huzaifa S.

    (Bronze)

    Mini beasts are small animals that don’t have a backbone.

    (Silver)

    (2 facts about mini beast)

    Butterflies taste with their feet, they don’t have mouths but drink with a long “tongue “.

    Butterflies start as eggs, then caterpillars before becoming butterflies.

    People use to call them “flutter-bus”.

    (Silver)

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

    Honeybees are useful to humans because they make honey using nectar from flowers.

    Snails are seen when it’s damp or at night. If the weather’s too dry, they can hide in their shells for months.

  12. Aryan H.

    Bronze
    Minibeast are insects with no backbone.
    Centipedes can live up to three years
    If a centipede loses a leg , they grow a new one.

  13. Dominik B.

    Bronze

    Minibeasts are insects or bugs which normally have 6 or 8 legs .

    A woodlouse can roll into a ball to protect itself from predators .

    Woodlice normally live under rocks or logs .

    Silver

    Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their legs together.

    Bees are useful to humans because they pollinate flowers and help us to create food .

    Snails often hide so they don’t get eaten by predators like birds .

    Gold

    Environment

    Is a place where a person , animal or plant operates .

    Species

    Is a group of living creatures which are all the same .

    Pollen

    Pollen is a powder normally yellow that is carried by Bees and helps to create more plants .

    Quantity

    Is the amount or number of a material or object .

    Threatened

    When something is in danger or at risk .

  14. Amelia R.

    Amelia done her work in book

  15. Arham S.

    1.Minibeast are small animals.
    2.Woodlice have 14 legs and a hard grey shell

    Silver
    1. Grasshopper make noise by rubbing their wings together or on their legs.
    2.they give honey to human.
    3.Because people trample on snails.

    Gold
    environment -the surroundings
    species -a species of invective at once tough and suave
    pollen -a fine powdery substance
    quantity -amount
    threatened- at risk

  16. Tala I.

    Bronze :
    A mini beast is a small insect .
    A wasp flys and can sting you .
    Silver :
    Grasshoppers make noises by hissing.
    Bees are useful to humans by making honey.
    Snails are often hiding because they are scared they might get stepped on .
    Gold :
    • Environment means the surroundings or conditions in which a person , animal , or plant lives or operates. Or the nature world , as a whole geographical area, especially as affected by human activity.
    •Species is a group of plants , animals etc that can produce younger plants .
    •Pollen powder usually yellow in flowers carried by other plants / flowers of the same kind by wind , insect etc to make new seeds .
    •Quantity is an amount of number of something.
    •Threatened is to give signs or warning of .

  17. Iqra S.

    iqra has done it

  18. Ella K.

    Minibeast is a small animal that don’t have a backbone.
    Minibeast are a worker
    Silver
    A grasshoppers make a music by rubbing their wings.
    Bees make honey for everyone.
    When the wether is dry and hot they hide in a shell.

  19. Ella C.

    Silver challenge.

    How do grasshoppers make noise?
    They make noise by rubbing their wings together or on their legs.

    How are bees usefull to humans?
    Because they make honey.

    Why do snails try to hide.
    They hide if the weather is too hot and dry.

  20. Sarah B.

    BRONZE:

    Wasps live in nests with around 10,000 bees.

    They eat fruit,nectar from flowers and other insects.

  21. Sarah B.

    Wasps live in nests about 10’000 years.
    Wasps eat fruit and uther incense 🎇.😍🤩Bronze

  22. Jasmine P.

    Gold challenge
    Environment-the surrounding or conditions in which a person, animal,or a plant lives or operates.
    Species-A group of organisms who can reproduce the another fertile
    Quantity- the amount of number
    Threatened- a danger

  23. Huzaifah J.

    Bronze
    Minibeasts are small animals that don’t have a backbone, this includes insects, spiders, beetles, snails, worms and centipedes.

    Two facts about Starfish:
    1, Starfish move with hundreds of feet
    2, Starfish has no brain or blood

    Silver
    Grasshoppers create sound by rubbing thier back legs across thier wings.

    Bees are important to us not only for thier honey, but they are also involved in pollinating lots of our food and wild flowers.

    Snails prefer dark and damp environments, they like to hide in thier shell when it’s hot.

    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.

    Platinum
    I have completed this in my homework book.

  24. Hannah B.

    Bronze:
    Mini beats are tiny creatures which don’t have a backbone
    Butterflies: used to be called flutter-bys, they start off as caterpillars.
    Silver:
    Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their wings together or legs.
    Bees are useful to humans because they make honey
    Snails try to hide when the weather is too dry.
    Gold:
    Environment: the surroundings in which a person, animal or plant lives
    Species: a group of living organisms
    Pollen: a fine podwer produced by male plants
    Quantity: the amount if something
    Threatened: cause something or someone to be at risk

  25. Neron O.

    Bronze
    Minibeasts are small animals that don’t have backbone
    Snails have four tentacles
    Snails are seen at night

    Silver
    They make music by rubbing their wings together
    They make honey using nectar from flowers
    If the weather is too dry

    Gold
    surroundings
    kind, or type
    amount
    endanger

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