Writing Activities: Year 2

Badger

Badgers are short, stout animals. They are good at digging underground burrows, called ‘setts’. Badgers can grow up to a metre long and they have loose-fitting skin. Badgers like to eat earthworms and in a single night they can eat over 200.

In this clip we will see two badgers making an appearance as a fox forages for food. Can you spot them in the background?

Literacy idea

Write the conversation that you think is taking place between the fox and the two badgers in the video clip.

Think about the following questions:

• What is the fox doing?
• What is the fox thinking?
• Why might the badgers be there?
• Is the fox happy to see the badgers? Why? Why not?

Wider curriculum idea

Draw a picture of a badger and label it using the information from dkfindout.com