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What Grade 2 covers in Ontario — 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 Ontario 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
2 unitsSocial Studies
43 weeksEnglish & French

Math — the 2020 Ontario math curriculum, in teaching order

Ontario 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 200

Weeks 1–6 · September–October

Reading, representing, comparing and ordering whole numbers to 200; place value.

2

Addition & Subtraction

Weeks 7–12 · October–November

Adding and subtracting within 100 using strategies and math facts.

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

Multiplication & Division

Weeks 13–19 · November–January

Equal groups, arrays, and sharing to build multiplication and division.

4

Fractions

Weeks 20–26 · January–February

Identify, represent and compare halves, thirds and fourths only; no other denominators and no multi-step problems.

5

Patterns & Algebra

Weeks 27–32 · March–April

Growing and repeating patterns; equality and unknowns.

6

Geometry & Spatial Sense

Weeks 33–38 · April–May

2D shapes and 3D objects; symmetry; location and movement on a grid.

7

Measurement, Data & Money

Weeks 39–43 · May–June

Length in cm and m; time; pictographs and bar graphs; money to one dollar.

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

Growth and Changes in Animals

Weeks 1–11 · September–November

Animals grow and change and have distinct characteristics.

2

Properties of Liquids and Solids

Weeks 12–22 · November–January

The properties and physical changes of liquids and solids.

3

Simple Machines and Movement

Weeks 23–32 · February–April

Movement and ways in which simple machines help to move objects.

4

Air and Water in the Environment

Weeks 33–43 · April–June

The properties of air and water, including water in various states, and ways in which living things depend on air and water for their survival.

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

Changing Family and Community Traditions

Weeks 1–22 · September–January

Family and community traditions and celebrations, how they differ, and how they have changed over time.

2

Global Communities

Weeks 23–43 · February–June

Global communities around the world: where they are and how their location shapes daily life.

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 (the 2020 Ontario math 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.