Year 2 Home Learning Grid Week beginning 15th June: The Rainforest

Listen to the story of The

Great Kapok Tree:

https://www.youtube.com/w

atch?v=J1Teb-_jTyI

Retell the story to someone

else in your own words or in

pictures.

Draw a picture of each

animal from The Great Kapok

Tree and use a speech

bubble to show their reason

not to cut down the tree

Design a poster to

encourage people to save

the rainforest. Use ideas from

the animals in the story to

help your ideas.

Create your own rainforest

word bank. Use the internet

to help you with definitions or

make up your own.

On a map of the world,

locate the UK and the

Amazon Rainforest.

How many rainforests are

there in the world? Can you

find these on a map? Can

you name the 7 continents

and 5 oceans?

Write a set of instructions to

get from the UK to the

Amazon Rainforest, visiting

various countries along the

way.

What food can be found in

the rainforest? Design your

own menu using these

ingredients.

Use the map of the rainforest

village to create your own

rainforest village. What will

you include? How is it

different to your own

neighbourhood?

Learn what language is

spoken in Brazil. Learn how to

say words/phrases in this

language. You can use this

free resource to help you:

https://www.youtube.com/w

atch?v=XDRUDj-UEB4

Draw a parrot using this

tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/w

atch?v=ukzU1Yu_DTM

Think carefully about what it

would be like to live in the

rainforest. What would be

good? What would be

difficult?

Explain why you would or

would not like to live there.

The Great Kapok Tree

by Lynne Cherry

rainforest

Kapok tree

axe

boa constrictor

bee

troupe of monkeys

toucan

macaw

cock-of-the-rock

tree frog

jaguar

tree porcupines

anteaters

three-toed sloth

Yanomamo tribe

woke