Year 2 What we have been learning

 

                                                                                            History

This week in history, we had an introduction to the Great fire of London. We learnt about 1666 and compared it to now. We thought about all the differences in the way the people used to live and how we live now. We noticed that the houses were timber – covered in a flammable substance called pitch and the roof was thatched, the streets were dirty, they cooked using coals and used a horse and cart to get around.  Now we have tall buildings, our houses are made of different materials and we travel by trains and buses. 

Literacy

In literacy this week, the children read VLAD and The Great Fire of London book and worked very hard to write descriptive sentences about the Great Fire of London. They used  their senses and amazing  adjectives to paint a vivid picture on the reader’s mind.

Math

This week, year 2 has worked super hard on completing activities around place value. They have used prior knowledge of number bonds,  their skills of counting to 100 as well as using concrete objects to solve problems. They have used a place value chart to identify and correctly place one digit and two digit numbers on the right columns