Year 2 What We Are Learning

 

            

                                                                                         

 

History

This week in History we looked at chronological order. 

This is arranging events in their order of occurrence in time.

 We looked at where and when the Great Fire of London 

started and how it went on. The children learnt that on 

Sunday 2nd September 1666 - The fires started at 1.00am in 

Thomas Farriner's bakery on Pudding Lane. On Tuesday

 4th September 1666 - St Paul's Cathedral was destroyed by the 

fire. On Wednesday 5th September 1666 - The wind dies down and 

the fire spreads more slowly. On Thursday 6th September 1666, 

the fire was finally put out. We successfully sequenced the events!

Literacy

This week, the children learnt about present tense and past

tense.  Additionally, they learnt  that  a sentence is a

complete idea that  starts with a capital letter and ends with a

full stop, question mark or an exclamation mark. Then, they planned a fact

file about London in 1666. They learnt that London

was overcrowded and full of wooden houses

which caused the Great Fire of London to spread so rapidly.

Maths

          This week, pupils focused on partitioning any numberusing a part-whole model. We practiced identifying andrecognising the parts and the whole. We used our place valuechart to assist us with partitioning one and two digit numbers.