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What Grade 2 covers in British Columbia — and how to practise it at home

Grade 2 builds fluency — numbers get friendlier, sentences get longer, and independent work starts to stick. Here is the year as BC schools actually teach it — unit by unit, in order — so you can see what your child is working on right now, and what's coming next.

7 unitsMath
4 unitsScience
5 unitsSocial Studies
43 weeksEnglish & French

Math — BC's curriculum, in teaching order

British Columbia math runs as a sequence: each unit builds on the one before it. The week ranges below follow the school year from September; teachers vary pacing.

1

Numbers to 100

Weeks 1–6 · September–October

Number concepts to 100, skip-counting by 2, 5, and 10 from different starting points, comparing and ordering, benchmarks of 25/50/100, place value of 10s and 1s, and even and odd numbers.

2

Addition and Subtraction Facts to 20

Weeks 7–12 · October–November

Building fluency with addition and subtraction facts to 20 using strategies such as making or bridging 10, decomposing, and related doubles.

Worth watching: if adding still means counting every object one by one, a few minutes of practice a day builds the number facts everything else leans on.

3

Addition and Subtraction to 100

Weeks 13–19 · November–January

Adding and subtracting to 100 by decomposing into 10s and 1s, using friendly numbers, compensating, estimating sums and differences, and open number lines.

Worth watching: if adding still means counting every object one by one, a few minutes of practice a day builds the number facts everything else leans on.

4

Patterns and Equality

Weeks 20–26 · January–February

Repeating and increasing patterns (to 100), describing change in quantity with pictures and symbols, and symbolic representation of equality and inequality.

5

2D Shapes and 3D Objects

Weeks 27–32 · March–April

Sorting by two attributes and describing, comparing, and constructing 2D shapes including triangles, squares, rectangles, and circles within 3D objects.

6

Measurement and Data

Weeks 33–38 · April–May

Direct linear measurement in centimetres and metres, estimating and recording length, pictorial graphs with one-to-one correspondence, and likelihood of events.

7

Money

Weeks 39–43 · May–June

Counting simple mixed combinations of coins to 100 cents and introducing the concepts of spending and saving.

Try one — a real Grade 2 question

Math · Money

How much money is 3 dimes and 1 nickel?

A typical first answer
8 cents
Homework Hub's feedback
You counted 4 coins — but coins aren't all worth 1 cent! A dime is worth 10 cents and a nickel is worth 5. Try skip-counting: 10, 20, 30… then add the nickel.
Next try
35 cents
Exactly — 10 + 10 + 10 + 5 = 35 cents. Skip-counting by coin values is the trick. 🪙

Science across the year

1

Life Cycles

Weeks 1–11 · September–November

Metamorphic and non-metamorphic life cycles of different organisms and the similarities and differences between offspring and their parents.

2

Changing Materials

Weeks 12–22 · November–January

Physical ways of changing materials such as warming, cooling, cutting, bending, and mixing, and chemical ways such as cooking and burning.

3

Forces and Motion

Weeks 23–32 · February–April

Types of forces, including contact and at-a-distance forces such as magnets and static electricity, and balanced and unbalanced forces acting on objects.

4

Water and the Water Cycle

Weeks 33–43 · April–June

Water sources including local watersheds, the need for water conservation, and the stages of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and runoff.

Science · Growth & Change

Put these in the right order: butterfly, egg, chrysalis, caterpillar.

A typical first answer
egg, butterfly, caterpillar, chrysalis
Homework Hub's feedback
Good start with the egg! But think about what hatches OUT of a butterfly egg — it isn't a butterfly yet. It's something long and hungry…
Next try
egg, caterpillar, chrysalis, butterfly
Perfect — egg hatches into caterpillar, caterpillar wraps into chrysalis, and out comes the butterfly. That's a life cycle. 🦋

Social Studies

1

Communities and Cultures in Canada and the World

Weeks 1–9 · September–October

Diverse characteristics of communities and cultures in Canada and around the world, including at least one Canadian First Peoples community — daily life, language, traditions, arts, and food.

2

Meeting Needs and Wants in Communities

Weeks 10–18 · November–December

How people's needs and wants are met in different communities, including how goods and services are acquired and how needs differ with climate and the size of a community.

3

People, Environment, and Landscapes

Weeks 19–27 · January–March

The relationships between people and the environment in different communities and the diverse environmental features of other parts of Canada and the world — climate zones, landforms, bodies of water, plants, and animals — describing any map fully in words.

4

Rights and Responsibilities as Global Citizens

Weeks 28–35 · March–April

The rights and responsibilities of individuals regionally and globally, including responsibility to the environment, human rights, and connections between communities throughout Canada and around the world.

5

Regional Governments and Their Roles

Weeks 36–43 · May–June

The roles and responsibilities of regional governments, including community leaders such as mayors and councillors and services such as transportation, policing, and firefighting.

English & French — skills that build weekly, not units

How language works in Grade 2

Unlike math and science, the language curriculum isn't taught as a sequence of units — it's a set of skills that deepen all year: reading comprehension and inference, writing structure and conventions, vocabulary, and oral communication. French works the same way. Homework Hub practises these as grade-matched weekly skills — a reading passage with real comprehension questions, a sentence to fix, a short prompt to write to — rather than pretending there's a unit list.

Practice that follows this exact sequence

Homework Hub generates fresh questions matched to these very units — in season, at your child's level, marked with hints that teach. You set the days; it does the rest.

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This page is generated from the same curriculum map that powers Homework Hub's practice questions (BC's curriculum and current science and social studies expectations, described in our own words). School boards and teachers vary pacing — week ranges are a typical rhythm, not a rule.