Good Morning Year 2!
Click here for a printable version of this blog post: Monday English printable
I hope you had a wonderful weekend and enjoyed doing something fun with your families. I loved chatting to you all last week – it was wonderful to hear your voices and to find out all the exciting things you have been doing.
Lots of you told me how much reading you have been doing. Don’t forget to update the blog. There are so many book recommendations there for you if you’re stuck with what to read next.
This week we’re going to look at some poems. These poems can be found in a book called ‘Little Lemur Laughing Poem’. We’ll be looking at the first three poems this week. Scan the QR code below to see it on a table or click on the link for a printable version: Little Lemur Laughing extract 
Before we do the main activity, can you answer these questions about the poems:
In the poem ‘What’s In A Poem?’:
1.Can you name 5 things they mention?
2. In the first verse, there are 3 words that rhyme, bumblebee, wallaby and chimpanzee. Can you find three words that rhyme in the 3rd verse?
In the poem ‘Lemurs’
3. What is special about the words in the first line of each verse?
4. In the fourth verse, what do you think ‘latching’ means?
In the poem ‘What Am I Like?
5. Which word rhymes with ‘bed’?
6. Why is cheetah a good animal to describe them ‘darting home from school’?
Now you can choose which activity you want to do:
Let us know in the comments below which activity you do and say how it went.
If you want to record any of your performances, then you can send them to me and I will try my best to find a way to share them on the blog. The homework uploader doesn’t work for videos, so you’ll have to send them to the office email. If it doesn’t work, then don’t worry – just have fun performing them to your family!
Good morning Miss Carruthers,
1. A busy buzzy bumblebee, a dragon’s sneeze, a happy hopping wallaby, a dinosaur and a cheeky chatty chimpanzee.
2. Lane, Spain and train
3. Each line of the first verse has three words: the first word is always an adjective (it describes a noun), the second word is always a noun (here it is a thing) and the third word is always a verb (here it has an ing at the end; a verb is a being/doing word).
4. Latching: I used the dictionary to understand the word: the lemur drinks his mummy’s milk like a baby (breastfeeding)
5. Head
6. Because they go quickly home from school and don’t stop (it would worry the mum if they take long home).
My favourite poem was What Am I Like because I sometimes love to pretend to be an animal. I sometimes like to be a unicorn because they are beautiful and have magical powers.
Greetings from Sophia
I’m glad you enjoyed the poems so much!
They mention a bumblebee, wallaby, chimpanzee, birthday cake and tray of biscuits.
The three words that rhyme are,train, lane and Spain.
What is special is that the first bit begins with a”b” which sounds like a bee.
Brilliant answers Jack!
Dear miss Carruthers,
I like ‘What’s In a Poem’ a lot because I like the rhymes and the melody I chose to read it in different ways an I am going to send the record-).
I’m glad you liked it!
1) A busy buzzy? bumblebee, a ?happy hopping wallaby, a cheeky ?chatty?chimpanzee, a zooming ?car and a chuffing? train.
2) Spain, ?train, lane
3) They all start with “L”
4) I think that it means hugging.
5)??Head
6) Because they are running home from school and a cheetah is fast.
Amazing answers Luisa!
My favourite poem is “What’s in a poem” because it tells you what you could put in a poem. I would like to write some poems in isolation to keep me busy. I also like it because it is quite random. Just how I like it! I like that lots of words rhyme. The words are also a bit funny. Lots are like tongue twisters.
Wonderful Nadine! Please send in your favourite poem that you’ve written, we’d love to see it!
What’s In A Poem
The poem mentions a birthday cake, a chimpanzee, a tray of biscuits, a holiday in Southern Spain and and an ice cream with a chocolate flake.
The three words in the third verse that rhyme are: train, lane and Spain.
Lemurs.
The words in the first line of each verse begin with ‘l’.
I think latching means holding on.
What Am I Like
Head rhymes with bed.
A cheetah is a good animal to describe the children leaving school because it is a fast animal and the children like to leave school fast. But not me!
My favourite poem was ‘What Am I Like’ because I am a cheeky, stubborn, messy, grumpy, dashing, graceful and lazy. Just like the animals in the poem. I am going to learn the poem off by heart now.
Albert
Brilliant answers Albert!
In the poem ‘What’s In A Poem?’:
1.Can you name 5 things they mention?
A cheeky chatty chimpanzee, busy buzzy bumblebee, happy hopping wallaby, a wizard spell, a monster claw.
2. In the first verse, there are 3 words that rhyme, bumblebee, wallaby and chimpanzee. Can you find three words that rhyme in the 3rd verse?
Train
Lane
Spain.
In the poem ‘Lemurs’
3. What is special about the words in the first line of each verse?
They are special because they are living things.
4. In the fourth verse, what do you think ‘latching’ means?
Latching means that you want to be very close to someone.
In the poem ‘What Am I Like?
5. Which word rhymes with ‘bed’?
The word that rhymes with bed is said.
6. Why is cheetah a good animal to describe them ‘darting home from school’?
It is a good animal to describe because it runs very fast.
Wonderful work Marisa.
Good morning Miss Carruthers,
Here are my sentences:
1. A busy busy bumblebee.
2. A zooming car. ?
3. A monsters claw.
4. An holiday in southern Spain.
5. An ice cream ? with a chocolate flake.
6. Spain, ?? Train ,? Lane.
7. Head.
8. You are walking ?♀️ behind
9. They are running ?♀️ really fast
Bye, Bo
Great work Bo!
1. A bumblebee, a wallaby, a chimpanzee, a slice of chocolate cake, and some ice cream.
2. Train, lane and Spain.
3. They all begin with the same letter.
4. It means holding on.
5. Head.
6. Because they are very fast
I learned ‘What’s in a Poem?’ off by heart, and recited it to my mum.
Well done Rex, I’m sure your mum enjoyed your performance!
Hi Miss Carruthers,
What’s In a Poem?
A tray of biscuits.
A Slice of cake.
A monsters claw.
A dinosaur
A busy Bee
Lemurs
The words all begin with the letter L.
Holding on.
What Am I like?
Head
Because they are very fast!
Well done Romey!
1. A dragon’s? sneeze, a dinosaur ?, a wizard’s?♂️ spells, a monster claw and scrumptious slice of birthday cake ?.
2.Train ?, lane and Spain ??.
3. They all have lemur in the line and also all the words begin with L.
The last letter in each line ends in ing.
4. Latching means laying close to his mummy or drinking milk from his mummy ?.
5. Head rhymes with bed ?.
6. Because darting means running?♀️ so fast and cheetahs run really fast in the jungle .
I am going to perform the poems to my family . I will video it .?
I’m sure they’ll love it!
A Dragons sneeze.
A Dinosaur.
A Wizard’s spell.
A Monster’s claw.
A zooming car.
Train, Spain, lane.
Every sentence only has words starting with “l”.
Latching means hugging to hold on so that they can’t fall off.
Head.
It’s a good word to describe “darting” which means fast.
Favourite poem is Lemurs because I like the bit where the baby lemur goes to his mummy, like my sister Bethan.
Fantastic answers Finley!
Dear Miss Carruthers,
1. Five things they mention are a bumblebee, chimpanzee, a dragon’s sneeze, a wizard’s spell and a monster’s claw.
2. The words that rhyme are train, lane and Spain.
In the poem ‘Lemurs’
3. It is special because is there are adjectives describing what the lemur is doing or feeling and all starting with l.
4. Latching means holding on to someone or something.
In the poem ‘what am I like’
5. Bed rhymes with head.
6. It is a good description because cheetahs can run very fast.
Reading
I did a performance of the Lemurs poem.
Oh brilliant Catherine! Did you family enjoy the performance?
1.Dinosaur, dragon’s sneeze, monster’s claw, a zooming car, an empty house.
2. Train, lane and Spain.
3.All begin with the letter ‘L’
4.I think that latching means holding on.
5.Head
6.They are very fast.
My favourite poem is ‘ what’s in a poem?’ because I like a dragon’s sneeze and dinosaurs
Great work Rafael. I’m glad you liked the poems.
Good afternoon Miss Carruthers!
We uploaded our English homework.
I ( Isabella) will try to learn by heart “What’s In A Poem?” because there are lots of funny rhymes.
I ( Emilia) will try to learn “What Am I Like?” because ”I am a dashing cheetah when I am darting home from school”?!
Brilliant girls!I’m glad you liked the poems so much.
1. Bumblebee, wallaby, chimpanzee, birthday cake and ice cream.
2. Train, lane and Spain.
3. They all start with “ L” and this is called a alliteration that all start with the same letter.
4. Latching means closed together with her mum.
5. Head rhymes with bed.
6. Because the cheetah can run very fast.
MY FAVORITE POEM:
My favourite poem is “ what’s in a poem” because it has alliteration in and rhyming words in it which makes it interesting and fun to read.
Brilliant Sophie. Well done for using the term alliteration.
1. They mention a zooming car, a train, an empty house, a dragon’s sneeze and a wizard’s spell.
2. The three things that rhyme are train, lane and Spain.
3. They all begin with the letter ‘l’.
4. Latching means holding on.
5. The word that rhymes with bed is head.
6. Cheetahs run fast and darting is fast.
I like the poem ‘Lemurs’ because the first lines all have the word lemur and all the words in those lines start with ‘l’.
Brilliant John!
1. They mention a bumblebee, birthday cake, a holiday in Spain, a dinosaur and a monster’s claw.
2. The three things that rhyme are lane, train and Spain.
3. They all start with the letter ‘l’.
4. Latching means holding on.
5. The word ‘head’ rhymes with ‘bed’.
6. Cheetahs are a good animal to describe because they’re very fast.
My favourite poem is ‘What Am I Like?’ because I like the rhymes. Being like an animal would be a lot of fun.
Well done Rebecca. Which animals would you like to be?
1) A busy buzzy bumblebee, a scrumptious slice of birthday cake, a zooming car, a dragon’s sneeze and a happy hopping wallaby
2) spain, lane, train
3) they all start with L
4) latching is like grabbing onto something
5) Head rhyme with bed
6) its good description as cheetahs are really fast
1. Dragon’s sneeze, bumblebee, tray of biscuits, birthday cake, train.
2. Train, lane and Spain.
3. They are describing words.
4. To attach.
5. Head.
6. The cheetah runs fast.