Grade -2

Language Arts

Course Name:Language Arts

Course Description

In Grade 2 Language, students will explore the four units: writing, oral communication, reading, and media literacy. They will continue their journey to mastery of the English language. 

Curriculum Information: Language (2008)

Course Developer: Canadian Global School

Development Date: 2022

Course Outline

Grade -2 Language Arts - Total Hours (158 Hours)

Unit One: Writing (40Hours)

In this unit, students will give appropriate examples of common and proper pronouns and use subject and object pronouns correctly in sentences. They will also draw a picture based on the proper sequencing of adjectives and reflect on the importance of adjectives to writing. Furthermore, they will study subjects, sentence types and punctuations. Finally, students will creatively create a comic strip to show their understanding of nouns, adjectives, and proper sentence structure (subject/predicate, sentence types, and punctuations). 

Unit Two: Oral Communication (40 Hours)

Students will use active listening strategies to understand and respond appropriately to the story Arthur’s Reading Race. They will also learn about facts vs. opinion, verbal communication and non-verbal communication. They will reflect on their listening skills and explain their areas for improvement. Lastly, students will participate in the project “drawing monsters” to demonstrate their understanding of the unit.

Unit Three: Reading (40 Hours)

Students will learn about the purpose of reading and explore active reading techniques. They will learn to identify parts of a fictional and non-fictional story, read how-to instructions, express their thoughts on different books, and prepare a book report. Lastly, they will do activities such as identifying and explaining the parts of the non-fiction text Sea Turtles and reflecting on their reading skills.

Unit Four: Media Literacy (38 Hours)

In this unit, students will present their thoughts and feelings towards commercials, discuss personal feelings about posting on social media and explain the importance of balancing one’s digital life.

Additionally, they will create a product that uses the techniques of advertising for children ages 7-9. Students will identify what information is safe or unsafe to share online and reflect on how digital citizens should care for their online communities. Students will explain the differences between social media and real life. Lastly, they will examine how media and advertising affect one’s feelings about themselves and discuss the relevance of the media text Francine’s Bad Hair Day.

Resources Needed

This course is entirely online and does not require nor rely on any textbook. Students will need the following resources:

  • Laptop and/or personal computer (preferably with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as a web browser)
  • Stable internet connection
  • A scanner, smartphone camera, or similar device to digitize handwritten or hand-drawn work
  • A device to record audio

Resources required by the student:

  • A scanner, smartphone camera, or similar device to upload handwritten or hand-drawn work,
  • Laptop and/or personal computer (preferably with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as a web browser)
  • Access to video recording and handwritten work scanning (mobile phone, tablet, iPad, webcams)
  • Stable internet connection

Note: This course is entirely online and does not require or rely on any textbook.

Resources provided by Canadian Global School :

  • Access to Google Suites or Microsoft Education for word processing software and presentation software. (The school will distribute accounts to students).
  • Supplemental Readings
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Teaching Strategies

Using a variety of instructional strategies, the teacher will provide numerous opportunities for students to develop skills of inquiry, problem-solving, and communication as they investigate and learn fundamental concepts. The integration of critical thinking and critical inquiry skills will provide a powerful tool for reasoning and problem solving and is reflected in a meaningful blend of both process and content. Throughout this course, students will:

  • Interact in student-paced and instructor-paced interactive, engaging instructional lessons.
  • Understand the value of diversity in learning and society
  • Develop self-confidence and self-advocacy skills
  • Refine their existing compensatory strategies (reading strategies, writing strategies, listening strategies, study strategies, researching strategies, strategies for memory, organizational strategies, and time management strategies) for learning and develop additional strategies to help meet their potential as learners and use throughout the elementary grades.
  • Cultivate problem-solving skills to become independent learners. 
  • Opportunities to learn in various ways- individually, cooperatively, independently, with teacher direction, hands-on experiences, and through examples followed by practice.
  • Accomplish prompts on interactive lessons; students can reflect on different texts. In addition, constant communication with teachers ensures that the students understand complex topics and apply them in their writing. They can also accomplish other tasks using animations, videos, discussion forums, live chat, and other interactive objects.

The course relies on the help of a teacher to support young learners through the lessons. The teacher will be working on facilitating the course content and participating in discussions to support students in developing communication skills.

Math

Course Name:Math

Course Description

In Grade 2 Math, students will explore numbers and operations, patterns and variables, probability, measurement and money concepts. They will continue their journey to the mastery of Mathematics.

Curriculum Information:Mathematics (2020)

Course Developer: Canadian Global School

Development Date: 2022

Course Outline

Grade-2 Math -Total Hours (158 Hours)

Unit One: Number (38-Hours)

In this unit, students will use objects, diagrams, and equations to represent, describe, and solve addition, subtraction, fair-share, and multiplication problems. They will explain what makes a number even or odd, compare and order whole numbers, skip-count to 200. They will also read, represent, compose, and decompose whole numbers.

Unit Two: Algebra (38-Hours)

In this unit, students will solve problems and create computational representations of mathematical situations by writing and executing code. They will identify, describe, create, and determine patterns. They will also identify when symbols are used as variables and solve problems relating to equalities.

Unit Three: Data (38-Hours)

In this unit, students will analyze different sets of data presented in various ways collect and display sets of data through observations and experiments. They will identify and test predictions about the mode and use math language to describe events involving probability. They will also sort sets of data about people or things according to two attributes.

Unit Four: Spatial Sense (38-Hours)

In this unit, students will learn how to sort, identify, compose, and decompose two-dimensional shapes. They will also create and interpret simple maps and describe the relative positions of objects. They will appropriately measure lengths and explain the relationship between centimeters and meters as units of length. They will learn about congruence and symmetry in 2D shapes and use the units of time, including non-standard units.

Unit Five: Financial Literacy (6-Hours)

In this unit, students will demonstrate an understanding of the value of Canadian currency. They will identify different ways of representing the same amount of money using various combinations of $1 and $2 coins and $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 bills.

Resources required by the student:

  • A scanner, smartphone camera, or similar device to upload handwritten or hand-drawn work,
  • Laptop and/or personal computer (preferably with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as a web browser)
  • Access to video recording and handwritten work scanning (mobile phone, tablet, iPad, webcams)
  • Stable internet connection

Resources provided by Canadian Global School 

  • Access to Google Suites or Microsoft Education for word processing software and presentation software. (The school will distribute accounts to students).
  • Supplemental Readings

Note: This course is entirely online and does not require or rely on any textbook.

Resources Needed:

This course is entirely online. It does not require nor rely on any textbook.

Students will need the following resources:

  • Laptop and/or personal computer (preferably with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as a web browser)
  • Stable internet connection
  • A scanner, smartphone camera, or similar device to digitize handwritten or hand-drawn work
  • Various household items to complete offline activitie
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Teaching Strategies

Using various instructional strategies, the teacher will provide numerous opportunities for students to develop inquiry, problem-solving, and communication skills as they investigate and learn fundamental concepts. The integration of critical thinking and critical inquiry skills will provide a powerful tool for reasoning and problem solving and is reflected in a meaningful blend of both process and content.

Throughout this course, students will:

  • Interact in student-paced and instructor-paced interactive, engaging instructional lessons.
  • Understand the value of diversity in learning and society
  • Develop self-confidence and self-advocacy skills
  • Refine their existing compensatory strategies for learning and develop additional strategies to help meet their potential as learners and use them throughout the elementary grades.
  • Cultivate problem-solving skills to become independent learners. 
  • Opportunities to learn in various ways- individually, cooperatively, independently, with teacher direction, through hands-on experiences, and through examples followed by practice. 
  • Accomplish prompts on interactive lessons. Students can reflect on different texts. In addition, constant communication with teachers ensures that the students understand complex topics and apply them in their writing. They can also accomplish other tasks by using animations, videos, discussion forums, live chat and other interactive objects.

The course relies on the help of a teacher to support young learners through the lessons. The teacher will be working in facilitating the course content and participating in discussions to support students in developing communication skills.

Science

Course Name:Science

Course Description

In Grade 2 Science, students will explore growth and changes in animals, movement, properties of liquids and solids, and air and water in the environment. 

They will continue their journey to mastery of Science. 

Curriculum Information: Science (2022)

Course Developer: Canadian Global School

Development Date: 2022

Course Outline

Grade 2 Science -Total Hours (95 Hours)

Unit One: Growth and Changes in Animals (23-Hours)

In this unit, students will identify the positive and negative impacts that animals have on humans and the environment. They will learn how animals adapt to their environment, and they will observe the physical and behavioral characteristics of these animals. They will identify major physical characteristics of different types of animals, and investigate their life cycle. They will also describe adaptation as a characteristic.

Unit Two: Movement (23-Hours)

In this unit, students will investigate and describe different kinds of movement, and how they move using the appropriate vocabulary. They will investigate the structure and function of simple machines and identify the six basic types, and how each type benefits us and assess its impact on society and the environment.

Unit Three: Properties of Liquids and Solids (23-Hours)

In this unit, students will assess the ways in which liquids and solids in the home are used and identify objects as solids or liquids. They will investigate and describe the properties of solids and liquids by using scientific inquiry. They will describe the characteristics of the different states of matter and investigate the results of mixing and/or dissolving different states of matter. They will also learn about international safety symbols.

Unit Four: Air and Water in the Environment (26-Hours)

In this unit, students will investigate, through experimentation, the characteristics of air and water and its uses. They will describe ways in which living things depend on air and water. They will also identify the three states of water in the environment and the stages of the water cycle, as well as the sources of water in the natural environment. They will also assess the impact of human activities on air and water in the environment and describe how water is a scarce resource.

Resources required by the student:

  • A scanner, smartphone camera, or similar device to upload handwritten or hand-drawn work,
  • Laptop and/or personal computer (preferably with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as a web browser)
  • Access to video recording and handwritten work scanning (mobile phone, tablet, iPad, webcams)
  • Stable internet connection

Resources provided by Canadian Global School 

  • Access to Google Suites or Microsoft Education for word processing software and presentation software. (The school will distribute accounts to students).
  • Supplemental Readings
  • Access to Canva for Education if needed

Note: This course is entirely online and does not require or rely on any textbook.

Resources Needed:

This course is entirely online and does not require nor rely on any textbook. Students will need the following resources:

  • Laptop and/or personal computer (preferably with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as a web browser)
  • Stable internet connection
  • A scanner, smartphone camera, or similar device to digitize handwritten or hand-drawn work
  • Various household items to complete offline activities
Depositphotos_11633182_original-min-600x300

Teaching Strategies

Using a variety of instructional strategies, the teacher will provide numerous opportunities for students to develop skills of inquiry, problem-solving, and communication as they investigate and learn fundamental concepts.

The integration of critical thinking and critical inquiry skills will provide a powerful tool for reasoning and problem solving and is reflected in a meaningful blend of both process and content.

Throughout this course, students will:

  • Interact in student-paced and instructor-paced interactive, engaging instructional lessons.
  • Understand the value of diversity in learning and society
  • Develop self-confidence and self-advocacy skills
  • Refine their existing compensatory strategies for learning and develop additional strategies to help meet their potential as learners and use them throughout the elementary grades.
  • Cultivate problem-solving skills to become independent learners. 
  • Opportunities to learn in various ways- individually, cooperatively, independently, with teacher direction, through hands-on experiences, and through examples followed by practice.
  • Accomplish prompts on interactive lessons. Students can reflect on different texts. In addition, constant communication with teachers ensures that the students understand complex topics and apply them in their writing. They can also accomplish other tasks by using animations, videos, discussion forums, live chat and other interactive objects.

Computer Science

Course Name: Computer Science

Course Description

In Grade 2 Computer Science, students will read and alter existing code, including code that involves sequential events, and describe how changes to the code affect the outcomes. Students will create programs with sequencing and events. They will investigate problem-solving techniques and develop strategies for building positive communities both online and offline. By the end of the course, students will create interactive games that they can share.

Course Developer: Canadian Global School

Development Date: 2022

Course Outline

Grade 2 Computer Science -Total Hours (63 Hours)

Unit One: Intro to Programming (31-Hours)

In this unit, students will explain what a programmer does. They will define code as a language for computers and recognize there is more than one computer language. Students will create and arrange sequences of steps to reach the desired outcome. They will use appropriate vocabulary to describe these steps.

Unit Two: Conditionals (32-Hours)

In this unit, students will describe the problems’ characteristics to understand outcomes and restraints.  Students will learn that a conditional statement tells a program to execute different actions depending on whether a condition is true or false.

Resources required by the student:

  • A scanner, smartphone camera, or similar device to upload handwritten or hand-drawn work,
  • Laptop and/or personal computer (preferably with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as a web browser)
  • Access to video recording and handwritten work scanning (mobile phone, tablet, iPad, webcams)
  • Stable internet connection

Resources provided by Canadian Global School 

  • Access to Google Suites or Microsoft Education for word processing software and presentation software. (The school will distribute accounts to students).
  • Supplemental Readings

Note: This course is entirely online and does not require or rely on any textbook.

Resources Needed:

This course is entirely online and does not require nor rely on any textbook. Students will need the following resources:

  • Laptop and/or personal computer (preferably with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as a web browser)
  • Stable internet connection
Depositphotos_11633182_original-min-600x300

Teaching Strategies

Using a variety of instructional strategies, the teacher will provide numerous opportunities for students to develop skills of inquiry, problem-solving, and communication as they investigate and learn fundamental coding concepts. The integration of critical thinking and critical inquiry skills will provide a powerful tool for reasoning and problem solving, and is reflected in a meaningful blend of both process and content. Throughout this course, students will:

  • Interact in student-paced and instructor-paced interactive, engaging instructional lessons.
  • The content is web-based, with students writing and running code in the browser. 
  • Teachers utilize tools and resources provided by Kodable to leverage time in the classroom and give focused 1-on-1 attention to students.

Social Studies

Course Name: Social Studies

Course Description

In Grade 2 Social Studies, students will explore the changing family and community traditions. They will learn about global features, including continents, bodies of water, countries, and cities. They will analyze different global communities based on their culture, features, and how they meet their needs.

Curriculum Information:Social Science (2018)

Course Developer: Canadian Global School

Development Date: 2022

Course Outline

Grade-2 Social Studies - Total Hours (63 Hours)

Strand A: Changing Family and Community Traditions (31-Hours)

In this strand, students will learn about other family’s structures and traditions. They will learn how heritage is passed on through community and family celebrations, and they will learn about past and present traditions and how others celebrate them. They will learn how these traditions and celebrations contribute to the diversity in Canada. They will also learn about different cultures through their food, clothing, traditions, and celebrations.

Strand B: Global Communities (32-Hours)

In this strand, students will identify cardinal directions on a map (i.e., N, S, E, W) and demonstrate an ability to extract information about climate from media sources. They will demonstrate an understanding of the world and its different parts, such as continents and bodies of water. They will also learn about nature, climate, homes, and people from around the world.

Resources required by the student:

  • A scanner, smartphone camera, or similar device to upload handwritten or hand-drawn work,
  • Laptop and/or personal computer (preferably with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as a web browser)
  • Access to video recording and handwritten work scanning (mobile phone, tablet, iPad, webcams)
  • Stable internet connection

Resources provided by Canadian Global School 

  • Access to Google Suites or Microsoft Education for word processing software and presentation software. (The school will distribute accounts to students).
  • Supplemental Readings

Note: This course is entirely online and does not require or rely on any textbook.

Resources Needed:

This course is entirely online and does not require nor rely on any textbook. Students will require the following resources:

  • Laptop and/or personal computer (preferably with Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as a web browser)
  • Stable internet connection
  • A scanner, smartphone camera, or similar device to digitize handwritten or hand-drawn work
  • A physical binder, folder, or notebook for offline activities
  • Various household items to complete offline activities
Depositphotos_11633182_original-min-600x300

Teaching Strategies

Using a variety of instructional strategies, the teacher will provide numerous opportunities for students to develop skills of inquiry, problem solving, and communication as they investigate and learn fundamental concepts. The integration of critical thinking and critical inquiry skills will provide a powerful tool for reasoning and problem solving, and is reflected in a meaningful blend of both process and content Throughout this course students will:

  • Interact in student-paced and instructor-paced interactive, engaging instructional lessons.
  • Understand the value of diversity in learning and in society
  • Refine their existing compensatory strategies for learning and develop additional strategies to help meet their potential as learners and use them throughout the elementary grades.
  • Cultivate problem-solving skills to become independent learners. 
  • Opportunities to learn in various ways- individually, cooperatively, independently, with teacher direction, through hands-on experiences, and through examples followed by practice. 
  • Accomplish prompts on interactive lessons, students can reflect on different texts. In addition, constant communication with teachers ensures that the students understand complex topics and apply them in their writing. They can also accomplish other tasks through the use of animations, videos, discussion forums, live chat and other interactive objects.

The course relies on the help of a teacher to support young learners through the