Year 2 Summer 2 Reading Challenge – Broad Heath Primary School

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Logan B. says:

02/07/2025 at 3:54 pm

moths have hairy bodies to keep them
A fly beats around 200 times a day
Butterflies taste with their feet

Environment. Means a place where they live.
Species: more than one
Why do snails hide? Because can’t eat them. Posted.

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Logan B. says:

02/07/2025 at 3:39 pm

mini beast rub their legs together

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Hashinika M. says:

02/07/2025 at 8:27 am

challenge 1:
mini beasts are small animals that dont have backbone.

Dragonflies have been on Earth before dinosaurs were around
they can live under water about a year.

challenge 2:
they make music by rubbing their wings together or on their legs.
they make honey
if the weather gets dry.

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Muhammad Y. says:

01/07/2025 at 11:49 pm

Challenge 1:

Minibeasts are small animals without a backbone.
Bees can sting you if they feel scared. But they can only sting once.

Challenge 2:

Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their wings on their legs.
Bees are helpful because they make honey.
Snails hide in their shell if the weather is too dry.

Challenge 3:

Environment: what is around us.

Species: A group of animals or plants that are the same kind.

Pollen: A powder made by flowers. Bees carry this powder from one flower to another to help grow new flowers.

Quantity: how many of something there is.

Threatened: to scare or feel scared.

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Inaaya H. says:

01/07/2025 at 9:11 pm

Minibeasts are small creatures with no backbone.
Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their wings or legs together.
Bees are useful because they make honey using nectar.
Snails try and hide due to dry weather.

Environment is everything around us living and non-living.
Species is a group of living things.
Pollen is powder produced by plants
Quantity is sn amount of something
Threatened is something in danger of being harmed.

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Patrick V. says:

01/07/2025 at 8:57 pm

Challenge 1
1. Minibeasts are small animals that don`t have a backbone.
Facts: Centipede`s are small and long creatures that can regenerate their legs and can have up to 100 legs but most of them only have 30

Challenge 2
1. Grasshopper makes noise by rubbing their wings or legs together.
2. Bees are helpful to humans because they are making honey for us.
3. Snails often try to hide so they can protect themself from drying out and from getting eaten by predators.

Challenge 3
* environment – everything around us, including living things like plants and animals, and non-living things.
* species – a group of living things like animals or plants.
* pollen – a fine, yellow dust produced by plants to help them make new seeds.
* quantity – how much or how many of something there is
* threatened – state one’s intention to take hostile action against someone.

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Mahid H. says:

01/07/2025 at 8:00 pm

Challenge 1
1.Minibeats don’t have backbones and are very tiny.
Two Facts about butterfly.
1.They taste with their feets.
2.They don’t have mouth.

Challenge2
1.Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their wings together.
2.Bees are helpful as they give us honey.
3.Snails try to hide from the drying effects of sun .
Challenge 3
1. Environment is the surrroundings of conditions in which a person,animal,or plant lives or operates
2. Species is a group of organisms consisting of similiar individuals capable of exchanings genes or interbreeding
3. Pollen is is a mass of microscopes in a seed plant appearing usually as a fine dust
4. Quantity is the amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement
5. The word threatend means stating ones intention to take hostile action against someone in retribution for something done or not done

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Aisha A. says:

01/07/2025 at 7:39 pm

Grasshopper makes noise like
Rubbing the rows on their legs
Bees are helpful by making honey
Snails hide because they are scared
Environment means we’re live
Species mean lots of the same things
Pollen is in the middle of the flowers
Quantity means an amount
Feeling Tretened feeling in danger

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Esha H. says:

01/07/2025 at 6:46 pm

#Challenge 1

1. Minibeasts are small animals that do not have backbone.
2.
(a) Dragonflies have been on the earth before the dinosaurs were.
(b) Their eyes have 30.000 lenses.

# Challenge 2

1.They make noise by rubbing their wings.
2. They make Honey using nectar from the flowers.
3.They can hide in their shells.

# Challenge 3

1. Environment: The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans.

2. SPECIES: A group of closely related organisms that are very similar to each other and are usually capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring.

3. POLLEN: The fecundating dustlike cells of the anthers of flowers.

4.QUANTITY: An exact amount or number.

5. THREATENED: To express a threat against somebody or something.

# Challenge 4
It is in my notebook.

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Haitham B. says:

01/07/2025 at 3:20 pm

Challenge 2
1. Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their wings together.
2. Bees are useful to humans because they make honey from the nectar of flowers.
3. Snails try to hide in their shell if the weather is too dry.

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Mithunshan R. says:

30/06/2025 at 9:40 pm

Challenge 1:What are minibeasts?
minibeasts are small Animals That don’t have a Backbone.

Give 2 facts about one of the minibeasts.
butterflies taste with their feet.
And they don’t have mouths.

Challenge 2
Please answer these questions in full sentences:
How do grasshopper make noise?
by rubbing their wings.

How are bees useful to humans?
they are helpful giving honey.

Why do snails often try to hide?
If the weather too dry.

Challenge 3
Use a dictionary to find the meaning of these words:
* environment – An Environment IS Everything that is around us.
* species – group of living things like as human.
*pollen – Dusty from flowers
*quantity – measurement of how much
*threatened- feeling that scary thing will happen

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Arshan R. says:

30/06/2025 at 8:02 pm

Challenge 1
Minibeasts are small animals that don’t have a backbone

1 Honey bees can be found anywhere in the world
2. Moths have hairy bodies to keep them warm

Challenge 2
1 Grasshopper makes noise by rubbing their wings together or on their legs
2 Bees are useful to humans because they make honey
3 Snails often try to hide when the weather is too dry

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Umar M. says:

30/06/2025 at 7:41 pm

challenge 1
1. minibeast are tiny insects that do not have a backbone
2. honey bees are found all over around the world
bees can only sting once

challenge 2
1. grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their feet on their wings
2. bees make honey
3. snails hide when its dry

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Abdullah P. says:

30/06/2025 at 7:23 pm

Minibeasts are small animals that dont have a backbone.

Honeybees can be found all around the world and they can talk by dancing.

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Zack W. says:

29/06/2025 at 9:08 pm

Challenge 1
Minibeasts are small animals that don’t have a backbone
Facts
1) Honey bees can be found anywhere in the world
2) Honey bees communicate through dancing
Challenge 2
1) Grasshopper makes noise by rubbing their wings together or on their legs
2) Bees are useful to humans because they make honey
3) Snails often try to hide when the weather is too dry
Challenge 3
enviroment = the surroundings in which a person, animal or plant lives
species = a group of animals or plants able to breed with each other
pollen = a powder produced by the male part of a flower, containing the fertilizing agent
quantity = an amount or number
threatend = make a threat to or to do

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Amaan N. says:

29/06/2025 at 8:07 pm

Challenge 1. Minibeasts don’t have a backbone and are tiny
Challenge 2.
1. A grasshopper can make sound by rubbing the rows of pags in their back leg.
2. Bees are helpful to give honey and pollen.
3. They get scared
Challenge 3.
Environment means everything around us like plants and animals
Spices means group of an animal
Pollen is a yellow powder made by flower that is used to make new plants
Quantity means how much of something there is
Theretend means being told you will be hurt or punished if you don’t do something.

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Anaya A. says:

29/06/2025 at 8:04 pm

Challenge 1.
1. Minibeasts are creatures that doesn’t have any back bone!
2.Dragonflies have been on earth before the dinosaurs! And they weren’t small they was so hugemunguse.
Challenge 2.
1. Grasshoppers rubb their back legs to make noise.
2.Bees are very helpful to humans because they give a meditation called honey.
3. Because some peaple kill them or hurt them.
Challenge 3.
1. A surrounding like the earth.
2. A group of organisms.
3. A fine powdery substance ,typically yellow powder.
4. A person or something frightened like a stranger

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Alie-Junior K. says:

29/06/2025 at 6:37 pm

1.By rubbing it’s wings
2 .Going to nectar
3.Because the weather gets dry
Challenge2
Environment is everything surrounding us.
Species are dangerous animals.
Treated means something effected.
Pollen yellow or orange powder found inside flowers.
Quantity is the amount of number or material.

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Alie-Junior K. says:

29/06/2025 at 6:35 pm

1.By rubbing it’s wings
2 .Going to nectar
3.Because the weather gets dry
Challenge2
Environment is everything surrounding us.
Species are dangerous animals.
Treated means something effected.
Pollen yellow or orange powder found inside flowers.
Quantity is the amount of number.

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Sara I. says:

29/06/2025 at 6:21 pm

Challenge 1:

Minibeasts are small animals without a backbone.
Wasps sting you if they feel threatened and they eat fruit.

Challenge 2:

Grasshopers make noise by rubbing their wings together.
Bees are helpful because the make honey.
Snails hide in their shell if the weather is too dry.

Challenge 3:

Environment: The world around us, like the air, water, trees

Species: A group of animals or plants that are the same kind.

Pollen: A yellow powder made by flowers. Bees carry it from one flower to another to help make seeds and grow new plants.

Quantity: How much or how many of something there is.

Threatened: When something is in danger and might go away or get hurt.

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Hasan B. says:

29/06/2025 at 6:20 pm

Challenge 1
1.Minibeats don’t have backbones and are very tiny.
Two Facts about butterfly.
1.They taste with their feets.
2.They don’t have mouth.

Challenge2
1.Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their wings together.
2.Bees are helpful as they give us honey.
3.Snails try to hide from the drying effects of sun .
Challenge 3
1. Environment is the surrroundings of conditions in which a person,animal,or plant lives or operates
2. Species is a group of organisms consisting of similiar individuals capable of exchanings genes or interbreeding
3. Pollen is is a mass of microscopes in a seed plant appearing usually as a fine dust
4. Quantity is the amount or number of a material or abstract thing not usually estimated by spatial measurement
5. The word threatend means stating ones intention to take hostile action against someone in retribution for something done or not done

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Aaila H. says:

29/06/2025 at 5:38 pm

Minibeasts are small animals that don’t have a back bone.
Moths have hairy bodies to keep them warm.

Challenge 2
Grasshoppers make noises by rubbing it’s wings together or their leg.
Bees make honey by using nectar from flowers.
Snails like to hide in their shells because they don’t like it when it is dry.
Challenge 3
The physical surrounding or conditions in which
Species means a group or class of animals.
Pollen means the fine granular or powdery substance produced by flowers.
Quantity means the amount of something.
Threatened means of a wild animal or plant in danger of becoming.

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Safwaan E. says:

29/06/2025 at 4:06 pm

Challenge 1

What are minibeasts?
Minibeasts are tiny animals with no bones in their back.

2 facts about one minibeast (dragonfly):

Dragonflies can fly backwards.

Their eyes are super big with 30,000 little parts.

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Challenge 2

How do grasshoppers make noise?
They rub their wings or legs together to make sounds.

How are bees useful to humans?
Bees help flowers grow and they make honey for us.
Why do snails often try to hide?
They hide when it’s dry so they don’t dry out.

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Ruqayyah B. says:

29/06/2025 at 1:41 pm

Challenge 1:
1)they are very tiny and have backbone
Challenge 2
1)Yes the grasshopper does make noise when they are rubbing the pegs in their back legs.
2)they give honey and royal jelly.
3)when humans come near the snail, they will hide in their shell.
Challenge 3)
Environment means what around us.
Species means a group of animals
A pollen is a powder from flowers
Quantity means the amount of something
Threatened means to feel scared

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Nathan K. says:

29/06/2025 at 12:43 pm

Challenge 1:
1. Minibeasts are small and doesn’t have a backbone.

Challenge 2:
1. Grasshoppers make music by rubbing their wings together or their legs.

2. Bees can be useful to humans by making honey from nectar flowers.

3. Snails hide in their shells.

Challenge 3:
Environment means like nature, such as water and soil.
Species are the same groups like humans or animals.
Pollen powder made from flowers.
A quantity means an amount.
Threatened is when you feel in danger.

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Anaya K. says:

29/06/2025 at 12:32 pm

Challenge 1
Minibeasts are small animals without backbones such as insects spiders and worms.

Ladybirds have bright red or yellow shells with black spots.
Some ladybirds can fly

Challenge 2
How do grasshoppers make noise?
They rub their legs on their wings.

How are bees useful to humans?
Bees help flowers and food grow.

Why do snails often try to hide?
Snails hide to stay safe and keep wet.

Environment – The place where animals and plants live.
Species – A group of the same kind of animal or plant.
Pollen – Yellow dust from flowers.
Quantity – How much there is.
Threatened – In danger.

Challenge 4 – Butterfly facts
Butterflies have big wings.
They come from caterpillars.
They drink from flowers.
They help flowers grow.
They like warm, sunny places.

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Insherah A. says:

29/06/2025 at 11:24 am

Challenge 1:
1. Minibeasts are small animals that don’t have a backbone. Like ants, butterflies
2. Butterflies taste with their feet. They don’t have mouths.

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Maame A. says:

28/06/2025 at 3:55 pm

challenge 1:
1) Minibeast don’t have backbones
challenge 2:
1) Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing their wings or legs.
2) Honey bees make honey for humans
3)snails hide becuase they sense danger
challenge 3)
1)the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
2)a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
3)a fine powdery substance, typically yellow, consisting of microscopic grains discharged from the male part.
4)an amount
5)having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner.

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Abdirahman M. says:

28/06/2025 at 9:48 am

What are minibeasts?
Minibeasts are small creatures that don’t have a backbone.

Give 2 facts about one of the minibeasts.
Wasps live in nests with around 10,000 workers and 1 queen.
They build paper nests from chewing wood and other materials.

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

How are bees useful to humans?
Bees are useful to humans because they move pollen from one plant to anothers which heklps fruit grow and they make honey.

Why do snails often try to hide?
Snails often try to hide because the weathers too dry.

Use a dictionary to find the meaning of these words:
Environment- everything around us living and non-living.
Species-a group of living things.
Pollen-a fine powder produced by plants
Quantity- An amount of something
Threatened- something in danger of being harmed.

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Joshua O. says:

27/06/2025 at 7:30 pm

Challenge 1:
1. Minibeasts don’t have a backbone and minibeasts are very tiny.

Challenge 2:
1. Grasshoppers make noise by rubbing the rows of pegs in their back legs.

2. Bees are helpful by giving honey, pollen and royal jelly.

3. Snails and slugs dig in the soil.

Challenge 3:
The environment is all around us like the Earth.
A species is a group of animals.
a pollen powder from flowers.
Quantity is an amount.
Feeling threatened is feeling scared.

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