The Great Fire of London

This piece of work runs alongside our Topic.

Parents: The English focus this week is to write a newspaper report about The Great Fire of London.

Wb 25.1.21 Year 2

For these lessons you will need:

Lined paper and a pencil. All the extra worksheets can be found here:

https://www.st-eanswythes.kent.sch.uk/parents/home-learning/year-2

What have you found out? Use the mind map to write down all you know.

Sheet to print out

Monday

Learn these spellings below. 1) bakery 2) smoke 3) fire 4) London 5) diary 6) escape 7) river 8) water 9) gunpowder 10) oven 11) bucket 12) wood

Now put the spellings in alphabetical order.

Choose the correct word from the spelling list to complete these sentences.

• The fire started in a _________________. • The houses were made of ______________. • Wind made the _____________ spread

faster. • People filled leather buckets with

_________________.

Hot seating • Get a family member to pretend to be a person

from 1666. • Interview them. Ask them questions about the fire. • Don’t forget you could use your knowledge of

your senses to ask questions.

Hear Touch See Taste Smell Then swap around

Write 3 sentences about the Great Fire using your senses.

Example: All I could see was the thick black smoke rising above the city. 3 sentences for each sense.

Tuesday

Play the interactive game about The Great Fire of London. http://www.fireoflondon.org.uk/game/

Subordinating conjunctions Joining words: because, when, but, so

Join my 2 bits of information using the CORRECT conjunction.

Example: The mayor was supposed to make sure the fire was put out …………… he ran away! Samuel Pepys cheese was valuable ………………………………………… he buried it.

https://www.st-eanswythes.kent.sch.uk/parents/home-learning/year-2

Comprehension

Sheet to print out. https://www.st-eanswythes.kent.sch.uk/parents/home-

learning/year-2

Wednesday

The Gazette How did people find out that there was a fire in London?

Can you think of different ways that people found out about the fire in 1666?

People carried messages

Newspaper Letters

The London Gazette was the first newspaper in Britain. It was first published in February 1666, just 8 months before the Great Fire! It was not published as

newspapers are now; it was sent by post to people who paid for it, and was not printed for sale to the

general public.

Your newspaper will need: A headline – This is the big word or words at the

top of the page. The reason it is big is because it has to catch the readers eye. Date – This shows when the newspaper was published. A caption – This is a short piece of information that usually sits underneath a picture. Pictures – That show what is going on. It needs to be written in chronological order and as you know that means in time order.

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Headline

date

picture

information

Get a piece of plain paper and write down some of the key facts about the fire. Think about what you would like to know if you were reading about it in a newspaper. What days and times did things happen?

ACTIVTY

Think about: Who? What? Why? When? Where? How?

Print the sequence sheets out, cut them up and see if you can match and sequence the dates with the pictures.

Thursday

Thursday & Friday Now you are ready to write your newspaper report.

Remember all the things you have to add to a report. Capital letters and full stops. Capital letters for names of people and places. Commas Exclamation marks (if needed) Question marks (if needed)

Here is a template for your newspaper report

You can use as many pages as you like!

After you have written your report don’t forget to proofread it and use the checklist below.

I cannot wait to see some of your writing!

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