To know about things that happened to me in the past.
To understand the difference between things that happened in the past and the present. To say some things that happened to other people in the past.
To put a few events or objects in order of when they happened. To look at books, pictures and photographs to help me find out about the past and use time lines to order events or objects.
To look at pictures from the past and ask, “What were people doing?”
To say why people may have acted as they did; to answer questions about events, using ‘before’ and ‘after’ to describe when something happened.
To sort events or objects into groups (then and now).
To say when my birthday is.