Learning areas
The five Alberta Grade 2 subjects covered here, written for whoever is helping. Each page gives the expectations, the vocabulary behind them, and things to try at home.
English language arts and literature
Reading and writing
Reading to find out rather than reading to practise, spelling that follows patterns, and writing that someone else can follow.
Open reading and writing
Mathematics
Numbers to 100
Place value, adding and subtracting within a hundred, sorting shapes by a rule, measuring in centimetres, and reading a graph.
Open numbers to 100
Science
Looking closely
Choosing materials for a job, light and sound, Canada's land and water, how living things grow, and writing instructions a machine could follow.
Open looking closely
Social studies
Canada
Canada's regions and resources, who leads the country, the heritages people brought and kept, and how trade and transport hold it together.
Open canada
Physical education and wellness
Moving and feeling good
Different levels of effort, carrying a skill from one activity to another, keeping a friendship going, food guidelines, consent, and spending, saving and sharing.
Open moving and feeling good
The sixth subject
Alberta also teaches fine arts in Grade 2 â art, music, drama and dance. It is still taught from the older program of studies rather than the new Kâ6 curriculum, so there is nothing here for it yet.
The expectations above are paraphrased from Alberta Education's New Kâ6 curriculum fact sheets, which publish a snapshot of each grade rather than the complete program of studies. Alberta's full programs are at alberta.ca/curriculum.