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Year 2 Reading Challenge Spring 2 2022

This story is called ‘Katie Morag delivers the mail’ and it was written by Mairi Hedderwick. You can listen to the story by watching the video OR read it all by yourself. You could even do both! Then try one or more of the challenges…

Wednesdays were always hectic on the Isle of Struay, for that was the day that the boat brought mail and provisions from the mainland.

One particular Wednesday was worse than usual, since baby Liam was cutting his first tooth and both Mr and Mrs McColl were in a bad mood.

“All right, all right,” said Mrs McColl in exasperation. “I’ll take Liam upstairs to quieten him down! Katie Morag, you take the mail to the houses across the Bay. There are five parcels – one for each house. The one with the red label is for Grannie.”

Pleased to escape, Katie Morag set off. She loved any excuse to visit her Grannie, who lived all alone in the very last house on the other side of the Bay. 

But it was a hot day, and Katie Morag had just stopped for a moment to paddle in a pool beneath the Redburn Bridge, when suddenly – splash! – she slipped on a slithery stone and fell into the water, mailbag and all.

“Oh, dear! Oh, dear!” wailed Katie Morag, looking at the five soggy parcels. “All the addresses are smudged and I won’t know which parcel is for which house now!”

Only Grannie’s parcel was still recognizable by its red label.

Then, because she was so frightened and ashamed, Katie Morag did a silly thing. She ran the rest of the way to the other side of the Bay and threw a parcel – any parcel, except the red-labelled one – on to the doorstep of each of the first four houses. Nobody saw her. Still sobbing, she ran on to Grannie’s.

“Well, this is a fine boorach you’ve got yourself into, Katie Morag,” said Grannie, when Katie Morag had explained what she had done. “Still at least you’ve given me the right parcel – it’s got the spare part for the tractor that I’ve been waiting for. I’ll go and get the old grey lady going, while you dry yourself up. Then you can try and sort the whole muddle out.”

Grannie had her head under the bonnet of the tractor for a long time.

Occasionally, Katie Morag heard muffled words of anger and she thought of the angry words waiting for her at home…

Then, suddenly, with a cough of black smoke, the tractor stuttered into life and they set off to go round each of the four houses in turn.

The first house belonged to the Lady Artist. She had been expecting tiny, thin brushes for her miniature paintings, but the parcel Katie Morag had left on her doorstep contained two enormous brushes.

“They’re bigger than my painting boards!” she said in disgust.

The second house was rented by the Holiday People. They had ordered fishing hooks from a sports catalogue, but their parcel had been full of garden seeds.

“We can’t catch fish with daisies and lettuces!” they complained.

At the third house, Mr MacMaster was standing by a big barrel of whitewash, holding the Lady Artist’s paint brushes.

“How can I paint my walls with these fiddling little things?” he asked.

In the fourth house lived Mrs Bayview. “That stupid shop on the mainland! Where are my seeds? Flowers won’t grow out of these,” she said crossly, waving a packet of fishing hooks in the air.

After much trundling back and forth, Katie Morag finally managed to collect and deliver all the right things to all the right people. Everyone smiled and waved and said, “Thank you very much.”

By now it was getting dark. Katie Morag thought of the long journey home. She would be very late and her parents were so bad-tempered these days on account of Liam’s noisy teething.

“Grannie, would you like to come back for tea?” she asked.

Katie Morag half hid behind Grannie as they walked in the kitchen door but, to her surprise, everyone was smiling. Liam had cut his tooth at last and all was calm.

“Thank you for helping out today, Katie Morag,” said Mrs McColl. “Isn’t she good, Grannie?”

“Och aye,” said Grannie with a smile as she looked at Katie Morag. “She’s very good at sorting things out, is our Katie Morag.” And she said no more.

BRONZE

.Why were Mr and Mrs McColl in a bad mood?
What problem did Katie have on the way to deliver the parcels?
What silly thing did Katie do?
How was the problem solved?

SILVER

Imagine you are Katie. What would you have done if you dropped all of the parcels into the water and why? How would you be feeling? Choose a more exciting word than ‘sad’ or ‘happy’.

GOLD

Choose 5 new words from the text. Use a dictionary to find the meaning and then put them into sentences of your own. You could choose words like: hectic, soggy, ashamed, miniature, muddle.

PLATINUM

Retell the story in your OWN words. You can do this on the blog or in your homework book. Use the pictures below to help you. Think about our writing checklists… can you include subordination? Coordinating conjunctions? Expanded noun phrases? Exclamation sentences? A question? Commas in a list?

60 responses to “Year 2 Reading Challenge Spring 2 2022”

  1. Minnah M.

    Mr Mcoll and Mrs Mcoll were in a bad mood because Liam was cutting his first tooth.
    The problem was that Katie slipped in the water and the addresses were smudged.
    The silly thing was Katie through all the parcels at the houses.
    The problem was solved by Grannie and Katie taking the parcels to the right houses

  2. Rexford A.

    Bronze
    1.They were in a bad mood because the baby was crying a lot.
    2.The problem was that Katie Morag slipped into a river and all the addresses on the parcels got smudged.
    3.The silly thing that Katie did was throwing any parcel on anyones doorstep.
    Silver
    1.If I was Katie and I dropped all the parcels into a river I would try to memorise the addresses because if you can’t remember them you won’t know what to do also I’ll feel upset if I didn’t know what to do.
    Gold
    1.hectic the definition of hectic is excitement or confusment

  3. Hamza M.

    Mr and Mrs McColl was in a bad mood because Liam was cutting his first tooth and couldn’t stop crying. So, Katie Morag was told by Mrs McColl to go and deliver the parcels. One of the parcels was for the Grannie with a red label on it.
    It was a hot day. So,Katie wanted to sit and paddle in the pool ,but suddenly she slipped in the water with the splash. All the parcels got wet and smudged.
    Katie Morag feels embarrassed and scared. She went to throw the parcels but unfortunately she put all of them incorrectly.
    Katie Morag rushed to the Grannie and gave her the parcel. She done that right because she can only recognised that parcel from its red label.
    She told everything happened to the Grannie. So, when Grannie fixed his tractor, she asked Katie to clean and dry herself. Then she went on his tractor with Katie Morag to fix the problem.
    They sought out all the parcels correctly with So much effort.
    When Grannie along with Katie Morag reached back to Mr and Mrs McColl.,they were all smiling because Liam had finally cut his tooth 😀
    Mr and Mrs McColl were thankful to Katie Morag for helping them out and Grannie was just smiling 😊
    The end.

  4. Nabiha I.

    Bronze:
    Mr and Mrs McColl were in a bad mood because baby Liam was geting his first tooth.
    Silver:
    I would tell the troof because it is good to be onest.
    Gold:
    Soggy ashamed miniture
    How soggy the male whas! Katie was ashamed that the male got all whet.
    Baby Liam is very miniture.

  5. Raeesa M.

    Mr and McColl were in a bad mood because baby Liam was cutting his first tooth and couldn’t stop crying.
    Katie and trouble as all the addresses were smudged and she found it different to do.
    The silly thing Katie did is that she threw the parcels on the other side of the bay.
    Katie solved it by finally being able to deliver all the parcels to the right people.

  6. Arjun G.

    bronze:
    Why were Mr and Mrs McColl in a bad mood?
    Because Liam was cutting his first tooth.
    What problem did Katie have on the way to deliver the parcels?
    All the addresses was smudged.
    What silly thing did Katie do?
    She threw any parcel on any door step.
    How was the problem solved?
    Katie Morag delivered the right parcels by giving out the right ones.
    Silver:
    if i was Katie i would be terrified because all the addresses was smudged from the water.
    Gold:
    hectic, soggy, ashamed, miniature, muddle.
    Hectic: very busy full of activity.
    I am so busy because i am delivering the mail.
    Soggy: wet and soft, usually in a way that is unpleasant.
    I’m am warring soggy and unconfutable boots.
    ashamed: feeling shame or feeling embarrassed about. somebody something or because of something you have done.
    Katie was so embarrassed because she fell into the water and all the addresses was smudged.
    miniature: very small much smaller than usual.
    When Katie was falling into the water the words from the parcels was going smaller and smaller in till they was dispersing.
    Muddle: to put things in the wrong order or mix them up.
    Katie was so afraid that she would get the parcels wrong because they were muddle.

  7. Carter D.

    Silver:
    If I was katie I would feel scared because I wouldn’t know which house it was and I would ask them if it’s the right parcel.

  8. Mohammed T.

    Bronze
    1) Why were Mr and Mrs McColl in a bad mood?
    Because baby Liam was cutting his first tooth.
    2) What problem did Katie have on the way to deliver the parcels?
    That the addresses were smudged.
    3) What silly thing did Katie do?
    She threw the parcels on the other side of the Bay.
    4) How was the problem solved?
    She delivered all the right parcels to everyone.
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    Silver
    I would feel worried because I won’t be able to see which parcel goes to which house and which is the correct parcel.
    —————————————————————————————————
    Gold
    Hectic- full of incessant or frantic activity.
    It was a hectic day and I was tired.
    Soggy- wet and soft.
    My trousers were soggy.
    Ashamed- embarrassed or guilty because of one’s actions, characteristics, or associations
    I was ashamed of my actions.
    Miniature- very small of its kind.
    It was a miniature version a of a water bottle.
    Muddle- bring into a disordered or confusing state.
    Katie muddled up he parcels.

  9. Hamza M.

    Bronze:
    1. Mr and Mrs McColl was in a bad mood because Liam was cutting his first tooth and couldn’t stop crying.
    2. She slipped on a slithery stone and fell into the water, mailingbag and all.
    3. Katie Morag did a silly thing. She ran and threw the parcels on to the doorstep of each of the first four houses.
    3. She delivered Grannie’s parcel correctly. She told everything happened to the Grannie. So,she helped her to delivere the parcels correctly on his tractor.
    Silver:
    1. I would ask an elder that I slipped of a slithery stone into the pool and the parcels are smudged . So,I need help.
    2. I would feel upset and worried but still optimistic that it will be fine.
    Gold:
    Hectic: very busy.
    Soggy: very wet and unpleasant.
    Ashamed: feeling embarrassed.
    Miniature: a small copy of something which is much larger.
    Muddle: To put things in the wrong place or order.
    It was a very hectic day for my mum.
    The bread was so soggy that I can’t eat it.
    I got my brother in trouble so I was feeling ashamed .
    An artist made a miniature camera.
    The teacher was too busy that she muddled up all the question papers.

  10. Sumaya O.

    Bronze
    . Because baby Liam cut out her first tooth

    . Katie’s problem was that she had fell into the lake

    . She through the parcel at the wrong door

    . Katie had changed it and had but it in the day .

  11. Sumaya O.

    Bronze
    . Because baby Liam cut out her first tooth

    .

  12. Nabiha I.

    Bronze
    1) Mr and Mrs McColl were in abad mood because baby Liam is geting his first tooth.
    Silver
    2) I wold tell the troof and be onest becauseit is bad to tell lise.
    Gold
    3)How soggy the male was!
    Platinum
    4) Mr and Mrs McColl were in a bad mood because baby Liam was geting his tooth .So she deliveved the male Splash.Katie fell in a river OH NO what will she do.All the adreses were smudg so she did some thing silly.She gave eny paceg to eny door step but granies.She ran to her houes to get changed.Then grany fixed the traction togethor they fixed the problem.
    grany tuck Katie home.

  13. Abdelrahman A.

    1.since baby Liam was cutting his first tooth
    2.she slipped on a slithery stone and fell into the water
    3.She ran the rest of the way to the other side of the Bay and threw a parcel – any parcel, except the red-labelled one – on to the doorstep of each of the first four houses.
    4.After much trundling back and forth, Katie Morag finally managed to collect and deliver all the right things to all the right people. Everyone smiled and waved and said, “Thank you very much.”

  14. Ariyan S.

    Bronze
    1. Mr and Mrs McColl were in a bad mood because the baby was cutting
    his first tooth.
    2. Katie slipped into the lake and all the parcels were smudged.
    3. She put the mail in random door steps.
    4. She put the parcels in the right door.

  15. Mustafa Z.

    I have done my challenge in my homework book.

  16. Safwan A.

    Bronze
    1. Mr and Mrs McColl were in a bad mood becasue baby Liam was cutting his first tooth.
    2. Katie slipped on a slipery stone and fell on the water and all the parcels become wet.
    3. She left the wrong parcels in four different houses.
    4. Katie Morag Grannie drove a tractor and gave each house the correct parcels

  17. Jad A.

    1.Because Liam crying while mrs McColl was saying shh.
    2.She slipped and fell with them.
    3.She put the mail in random door steps.
    4.By changing them in the correct door steps.
    silver
    I would be beaming,blue about that.
    Gold
    Muddle=swap in wrong area, messed up and incorrect area.
    Ashamed=Hangdog and guilty.
    Soggy=pappy and miry.
    Hectic=Heaving and brisk.
    Miniature=Mini and micro.

  18. Toleen S.

    BRONZE

    1. Because baby Liam was cutting his first tooth.

    2. Katie slipped into the lake and all the parcels were smudged.

    3.She put the four parcels on the first 4 houses.

    4. Grannies parcel was the only one recognised, so Granny fixed her tractor and they organised all the parcels.

    SILVER

    Tell my mum or dad because I might get in trouble. I would feel worried and scared.

    GOLD

    Sobbing, complained, occasionally, catalogue, barrel
    Sobbing means crying noisily.
    Complained means express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
    Occasionally means now and then from time to time.
    Catalogue means a systematic list of names, books, pictures etc.
    Barrel means a cylindrical container.

    PLATINUM

    Every Wednesday it is always hectic especially when loud, annoying baby Liam was cutting his first tooth. So instead, Katie delivered the parcels. She would never have an excuse to not visit her beloved grandma. After a while, the cool breeze went away so she decided to have a paddle in the river nearby. Oh oh! She fell in the river. As soon as she went out, SPLASH! All the parcels addresses got smudged. What should I do she said running away sobbing. She only knew which parcel was for grandma. She ran to her grandma’s house. Katie dried herself while granny fixed the tractor. Soon they set off in the tractor. They delivered all the parcels to the houses and everyone was very proud of her.

    THE END!

  19. Bhavdeep B.

    i have done my challenge in my homework book

  20. Ranj M.

    Bronze
    1.Mr and Mrs McColl were in a bad mood because the baby was cutting his first tooth.
    2. She slipped on a slithery stone and fell into the water and all the addresses are smudged so she did not know which parcel is for which house .
    3. She threw the parcel in wrong address.
    4. She managed to collect and deliver all the right things to all the right people.
    Silver
    If I was Kate I would felt worried and I would be sorry to.
    Gold
    Soggy means wet and not stiff.
    The bread is soggy.
    Ashamed means embarrassed.
    She felt ashamed that she had hit him.
    Muddle means confuse.
    I felt muddle because somebody hit me for no reason .
    Hectic means very busy.
    Some people are hectic.

  21. Abigail F.

    Bronze
    – Because Liam having cutting tooth.
    – Katie Morag has slipped on a slipper rock.
    – Katie Morag threw any parcel to the four doors but not the red label.
    – Grannie and Katie Morag went to deliver the right parcel to the right people.

    Silver
    I would be upset if I dropped the parcel into a water because the people who were waiting their parcel has been delivered will be mad.
    Gold
    – One particular morning Liam had a bad toothache.
    – When students are late to a school they would be ashamed.
    – My mom bought me and my sister a set of 3 different size chocolate and I ate the miniature one.

  22. Simeongeya W.

    Bronze
    1) Because liem was cutting his first teeth.
    2) She felt into a muddy pound and all the parcels were soggy and smudged.
    3) katie run to the other side of bay and through 4 parcels to any door step accept the red labelled one.
    4). She went to granie’s house and granie was fixing the old green tractor.
    After the tractor sutturing into life,they set off to go round each of the four houses in turn.
    Silver:
    I will feel miserable, embarrassed of my self if I drop the all the parcels into water. After
    I will try to dry them all up by leaving them in the sunshine. That is going to make me excited.
    Gold:
    1. Hectic: Adjective,full of incessant of frantic activity.
    2. Soggy: Adjective,wet and soft.
    3. Ashamed: Adjective, embarrassed or guilty because of one’s action.
    4. Miniature: Adjective, very small.
    5. Muddle: Verb, bring into confusing state.

  23. Max P.

    Bronze

    1) Baby Liam was cutting his first tooth.
    2) She slipped on a slithery rock.
    3) She posted are post mails to the different doors.
    4) She tolds granny 👵 and after post all posts to the correct address.

    SILVER
    I was feeling very scary and afraid 😨 .
    I was try to dry my clothes and fix everything what happened.

    GOLD
    soggy – very wet
    muddle – very mix
    Hectic- difficult

    My jumper is soggy.
    Hair are muddle sometimes.
    I have hectic day in school.

  24. Shemaiah W.

    Bronze
    1) Mr and Mrs MacColl were in bad mood because liem was cutting his first teeth.
    2) She felt into a muddy pound and all the parcels were soggy and smudged.
    3) She run to the other side of bay and through 4 parcels to any door step accept the red labelled one.
    4). She went to granie’s house and granie was fixing the old green tractor.
    After the tractor sutturing into life,they set off to go round each of the four houses in turn.
    Silver:
    I will feel miserable if I drop the all the parcels into water. After
    I will try to dry them all up by leaving them in the sunshine. That is going to make me overjoyed.
    Gold:
    1. Hectic: Adjective,full of incessant of frantic activity.
    2. Soggy: Adjective,wet and soft.
    3. Ashamed: Adjective, embarrassed or guilty because of one’s action.
    4. Miniature: Adjective, very small.
    5. Muddle: Verb, bring into confusing state.

  25. Shemaiah W.

    Bronze
    1) Mr and Mrs McColl were in a bad mood because liem was cutting his first teeth.
    2) She

  26. Jebrin Y.

    Bronze:
    1) Liam was cutting his tooth.
    2) She slipped on a rock, so the parcels got wet, she could not read the address so she had to guess them.
    3) She gave random parcels to random houses without knowing which one was which.
    4) She swapped each persons parcel and gave them the right ones
    __________________________________________________________
    Silver:
    1) I would try to dry the parcels and solve which one is which, I would also feel empty inside as the parcels are messed up.
    __________________________________________________________
    Gold:
    1) Tempered- having a specified temper or disposition.
    Example: The boy was bad tempered
    2) Bonnet- hinged cover over the engine of motor vehicles.
    Example: Smoke was pouring out the bonnet of the car
    3) Smudged- cause (something) to become messily smeared by rubbing it.
    Example: The labels were smudged.
    4) Muffled- A sound not being loud because of being obstructed in some way; muted.
    Example: Her shouting was very muffled.
    5)Stuttered- talk with continued involuntary repetition of sounds, especially initial consonants.
    Example: The boy stuttered constantly.

  27. Hishaam G.

    1I know why Mr and Mrs were in a bad mood because they didn’t have the right mail.
    2Kate’s problem was she feel in the river
    3Kate’s silly thing is she threw the mail on each door step.
    4 Kate’s told Granny.

  28. Camarni Heir-Hall

    Reading challenge
    Bronze
    – [x] 1. Because Liam was cutting his first tooth
    – [x] 2. Katie slipped on a slippery rock and the parcels got soggy so she could not read the address
    – [x] 3 The silly thing Katie did through all of the parcels except the red labelled one
    – [x] 4 Katie ran to grannies so she can give her gift to her so they can ride round on the tractor and go get all of all of the parcel all to the right people
    Silver
    – [ ] 1 I would deliver any parcel to any house
    – [ ] 2 I will be very mad that happened

  29. Aiza B.

    Bronze:They were in bad mood because baby Liam was cutting his first tooth.
    She tripped on a rock and fell in to the lake.
    She threw all the parcels on wrong doors.
    She came back and switched the parcels to the right ones.
    Silver:If I was Katie I would have been horrified of what I had done.
    And I would seek for the help.
    Gold:Ashamed(embarrassing) She was ashamed of what she has done.
    Frightened:(scared) She was frightened when she tripped over the rock.
    Angry:(bad mood) The postman was angry because Liam cut his first tooth.
    Smudged:become messy)When Katie fell over all of her parcels got smudge.
    Escape:(run away) Katie escaped to granny house.

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