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
