What your child learns in Grade 2 in New Brunswick
In Grade 2, reading becomes smoother and writing gets longer. Math moves to numbers to 100, addition and subtraction, patterns and graphs. Explore Your World continues to build inquiry, belonging and care for the environment.
Grade 2 subjects in the New Brunswick Curriculum
Math
Big Ideas
- Number: Number Sense. Develop number sense.
- Number: Operations. Develop number sense.
- Statistics and Probability: Data Analysis. Collect, display and analyze data to solve problems.
9 units, including tens & ones, bigger or smaller, facts to 20, adding to 100.
English Language Arts
Big Ideas
- Interactions: Expression. Express feelings and opinions, providing some explanation, and give simple descriptions of experiences.
- Interactions: Exchanges. Ask and respond to questions to clarify and gather further information.
- Interactions: Reception. Receive and reflect on the ideas and opinions of others.
8 units, including rhyme time, sound detectives, word power, super sentences.
Science
Big Ideas
- Literacies and Communications: Communicative Practices. Examine how language learning is beneficial.
- Literacies and Communications: Multimodal Literacies. Refer to environmental print in multiple languages.
- Literacies and Communications: Literate Identities. Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.
6 units, including life cycles, animal adaptations, water world, solids & liquids.
Social Studies
Big Ideas
- Literacies and Communications: Communicative Practices. Examine how language learning is beneficial.
- Literacies and Communications: Multimodal Literacies. Refer to environmental print in multiple languages.
- Literacies and Communications: Literate Identities. Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.
6 units, including needs & wants, caring citizens, groups in our community, traditions & celebrations.
French Immersion
Big Ideas
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Comprehension. Understand different oral texts on familiar topics related to surroundings and personal experiences.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Production. Speak on familiar topics related to surroundings and personal experiences using precise language.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Interaction. Participate in conversations on familiar topics related to surroundings and personal experiences using precise language.
6 units, including le, la, un, une, les adjectifs, l'ordre des mots, les contes.
What to look for on the report card
Look for fluent reading, longer writing, comfort with adding and subtracting, and the ability to explain thinking.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Excelling. See what each level means.
The Global Competencies grow through every subject from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Read about global competencies.
Ready for Grade 2?
Grade 2 builds on what your child practised in Grade 1. If a skill feels shaky, a few short practice sessions before or early in the year can help:
- Math: numbers to 20, make 10, adding, take away, equal or not
- English Language Arts: word families, blend it, short vowels, sh, ch, th, sight words
- Science: living things, what living things need, animal survival, sky & seasons, materials
- Social Studies: different & alike, respect & inclusion, my community, community services, our land
- French Immersion: je me présente, majuscule et point, est-ce que…?, les verbes d'action, couleurs et adjectifs
Common questions
Grade 2 covers math, english language arts, science, social studies, french immersion in the New Brunswick Curriculum. In Grade 2, reading becomes smoother and writing gets longer. Math moves to numbers to 100, addition and subtraction, patterns and graphs. Explore Your World continues to build inquiry, belonging and care for the environment.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Excelling.
Short, regular practice works better than long sessions: 10 to 15 minutes a few times a week, on the skills your child's teacher flags. Read together, use math in real life, and praise effort.
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