Welcome to Grade 2!
As a team, the grade 2 teachers have outlined the curriculum expectations for the year. These can all be found in the Ontario Curriculum Documents if you are looking for more information.
Language Arts (Expectations by the end of Grade 2)
Oral Communication
- Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
- Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.
Reading
- Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning.
- Recognize a variety of text forms and features and demonstrate how they communicate meaning.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, and the strategies they found most useful before, during and after reading.
Writing
- Generate, gather and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
- Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience.
- Use editing and proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions to correct errors, refine expression and present their work effectively.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages of the writing process.
Media Literacy
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of texts.
- Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning.
- Create a different form of media texts for different audiences.
Math (Expectations by the end of Grade 2)
Numeration and Number Sense
- Read, represent, compare and order numbers to 100 and use concrete materials to represent fractions and money amounts to $1
- Demonstrate an understanding of magnitude by counting forward to 200 and backwards from 50, using multiples of various numbers as starting points.
- Solve problems using addition and subtraction of one and two digit whole numbers using a variety of strategies and investigate multiplication and division.
Measurement
- Estimate and record length, perimeter, mass and capacity, time and temperature, using non-standard and standard measurement.
- Compare, describe and order objects using attributes measured in non-standard units and standard units.
Geometry and Spatial Sense
- Identify 2D Shapes and 3D Figures and sort and classify them by their geometric properties.
- Compose and decompose 2D Shapes and 3D Figures.
- Describe and represent the relative locations of objects, and represent objects on a map.
Patterning and Algebra
- Identify, describe and extend and create repeating patterns, growing and shrinking patterns.
- Demonstrate an understanding of equality between pairs of expressions, using concrete materials, symbols and addition and subtraction to 18.
Data Management and Probability
- Collect and organize data and display the data using tally charts, concrete graphs, pictographs, line plots, simple bar graphs, and other graphic organizers, with labels ordered appropriately along horizontal axis as needed.
- Read and describe data represented in a tally chart and concrete graphs.
- Describe probability in everyday situations and simple games.
Science & Social Studies (Expectations by the end of Grade 2 )
Growth and Changes in Animals
- Assess ways in which animals have an impact on society and the environment.
- Investigate similarities and differences in the characteristics of different animals.
- Demonstrate an understanding that animals grow and change and have distinct characteristics.
Movement
- Assess the impact on society and the environment of simple machines and mechanisms.
- Investigate mechanisms that include simple machines and enable movement.
- Demonstrate an understanding of movement and ways in which simple machines help to move objects.
Properties of Liquid and Solids
- Assess the ways in which liquid and solids can have an impact on society and the environment.
- Investigate the properties of and interactions between liquids and solids.
Air and Water in the Environment
- Assess the ways in which the actions of humans have an impact on the quality of air and water, and ways in which the quality of air and water have an impact on living things.
- Investigate the characteristics of air and water.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which air and water are used by living things to help them meet their basic needs.
Social Studies (Expectations by the end of Grade 2)
Changing Family and Community Traditions
- Compare some significant traditions and celebrations among diverse groups and at different times, and identify some the reasons for changes in these traditions/celebrations.
- Use the inquiry process to investigate some of the past and present traditions and celebrations within their own family and the communities to which they belong.
- Describe some of the major groups in their community, including different types of families, and some of the ways in which tradition and heritage are passed on by such groups.
People and the Environment and Global Communities
- Describe some similarities and differences in the ways in which people in two or more communities in different parts of the world meet their needs and have adapted to location and climate.
- Identify and locate various physical features and selected communities around the world, and describe some aspect of people’s ways of life in those communities.
The Arts (Expectations by the end of Grade 2)
Dance
- Create and present dance in a creative process.
- Reflect, respond and analyse dance to communicate their feelings.
- Explore forms and cultural contexts of a variety of dance forms.
Drama
- Create, present and apply the creative process to dramatic play.
- Reflect, respond and analyse to communicate feelings and understandings in response to a variety of drama works.
- Explore different forms and cultural contexts.
Visual Arts
- Create and present the visual process to produce a variety of 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional art works.
- Apply artwork to communicate feelings, ideas and understandings in response to experience.
- Explore forms and cultural contexts and techniques from past and present.
Phys-Ed & Health (Expectations by the end of Grade 2)
Living Skills
- use self awareness and self monitoring skills to help them understand their strengths and needs.
Active Living
- participate actively and regularly in a wide variety of physical activities, and demonstrate an understanding of the value of regular physical activity in their daily lives.
- Demonstrate the importance of being physically active.
- Demonstrate responsibility for their own safety and the safety of others.
Movement Skills, Concepts and Strategies
- Perform movement skills demonstrating the basic requirements of the skills and applying them in a variety of physical activities.
- Apply movement skills appropriately.
Healthy Living
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of being healthy.
- Demonstrate the ability to apply health knowledge and living skills to make reasoned decisions and take appropriate actions relating to their personal health and well-being.
- Demonstrate the ability to make connections that relate to health and well-being - how their choices and behaviours affect both themselves and others, and how factors in the world around them affect their own and others’ health and well-being.
