GRADE 2

Subjects:

MATHEMATICS
SCIENCE
  

 

Books
  • Bright Star Pupil’s Book 2.
  • Bright Star Workbook 2.
  • Collins Primary Literacy – Pupils’ Book 2
  • Collins Primary Literacy – Homework Book 2
  • The School Mouse – by Dick King Smith
Content
First Term
  • Read on sight 30 more words from the high frequency list.
  • Identify action words used in a dialogue and make sentences using these words.
  • Pick out singular nouns from plural nouns and use the correct determiner with the given nouns.
  • Use commas to separate items in a list.
  • Recognise and identify prepositions as words which tell us relative positions.
  • Understand when to add a full stop at the end of a sentence.
  • Recognise and identify adjectives as describing words in a sentence.
  • Discriminate, spell and read words with the vowels phonemes ee, oo, aw, ai, ea.
  • Understand and use the terms ‘vowel’ and ‘consonant’.
  • Begin using handwriting joins.
  • Understand the use of capitals.
  • Answer simple questions related to a passage of reading.
  • Write simple sentences to express themselves and their personal experiences.
  • Understand a listening passage and extract the correct information to answer questions about it.
  • Understand and follow directions.
  • Extend English vocabulary relating to personal experiences and everyday happenings.
Second Term
  • Split compound words into two parts.
  • Read all the words on the high frequency list.
  • Investigate words with the same spelling patterns but different sounds.
  • Use a dictionary to locate a word for spelling or meaning.
  • Write a complete story.
  • Differentiate between regular and irregular verbs.
  • Use apostrophes to show possession.
  • Understand the distinction between fact and fiction.
  • Use verb tenses accurately in speaking and writing.
  • Identify, understand and use speech marks correctly.
  • Recognise, read, write and spell words containing the digraphs wh, ph and ch.
  • Continue to practise the basic handwriting joins.
  • Spell words with common suffixes such as -ful, -ly.
  • Discuss and compare story themes, settings, characters, etc.
  • Read and produce simple flow charts to explain a process.
  • Use contents and index pages to find their way about text.
  • Learn subject-verb agreement.
  • Learn the use of question and exclamation marks correctly.
  • Design a poster to convey a message.
  • Explain what similes are and use them to describe a given situation.
  • Form questions using ‘may’ and ‘should’.
  • Improve grammatical agreements in speech and writing.
  • Use the simple future tense to express action in the future.
  • Follow and write a list of simple instructions.
  • Create labels and notes for pictures.

Assessment

Children are assessed throughout the term by the class teachers and have exams at the end of each term.

  • Classwork, tests and quizzes: 60%
  • Exams 40%

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Books
  • Collins New Primary Maths 
             i)Activity Book A
             ii)Activity Book B
             iii)Activity Book C
  • Copy Books
  • Teacher generated worksheets
Content
First Term
  • Use addition and subtraction to solve simple word problems.
  • Compare 2-digit numbers and recognize larger and smaller.
  • Say the number names to at least 100 from and back to zero.
  • Reliably count 100 objects.
  • Recognize odd and even numbers to at least 100.
  • Counting patterns. Count in 2's, 5's, 10's.
  • Read and write number names to 100.
  • Know what each digit in a two digit number represents.
  • Partition a two-digit number into tens and units/ones.
  • Extend understanding of addition and subtraction.
  • Understand that addition can be done in any order.
  • Read the time at hours, half-hours and quarter hours on a digital or analogue clock.
  • Estimate and measure length in centimeters.
  • Grouping and sorting objects.
  • Use mental addition and subtraction to solve simple one and two-step word problems.
  • Fractions; recognizing parts of a whole.
  • Learn that multiplication is repeated addition.
  • Learn 2x, 5x and 10x.
Second Term
  • Recognize numbers up to 100 that are multiples of 2, 5, and 10.
  • Solve word problems with multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.
  • Compare and order numbers to 100. Use correct symbols < and > to note numbers greater than and less than.
  • Understand division as repeated subtraction and as sharing.
  • Know doubles of all numbers to 20.
  • Identify and classify even and odd numbers.
  • Solve a problem and display the results as information on a list or simple graph.
  • Begin to recognize line symmetry.
  • Recognize a right angle in some common shapes.
  • Add two-digit numbers bridging through a multiple of 10.
  • Position numbers to100 on a number line or a hundred square.
  • Know units of time and the relationships between them.
  • Measure, compare and estimate mass in kilograms.
  • Identify names of various equal and unequal parts.
  • Identify and name solids.
  • Make patterns with shapes.
  • Measure, compare and estimate volume in millilitres and liters.
  • Find a small difference by counting up.
  • Identify pairs of numbers that total 20 and 100.
  • Add more than two numbers.
  • Understand the difference between fast and slow, quickly and slowly.
  • Read and interpret pictographs.
  • Collect and classify data.
  • Know whole, half and quarter turns clockwise and anti-clockwise.
  • Use the correct operation to solve simple real life problems.

Assessment

Teachers assess children continuously in class in Grade 2 and tests are also conducted at the end of each term.

  • Term work: 60%
  • Exams: 40%

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Books
  • Let's Learn Science textbook.
  • Let's learn Science workbook.
  • Teacher generated worksheets.
Content
First Term
  • Identify growth and changes in seeds to plants.
  • Distinguish between animals that are insects and non-insects.
  • Place animals into major groups.
  • Group animals according to the presence or absence of a backbone.
  • Identify the effects of pollutants on aquatic organisms.
  • Investigate the effects of damage or destruction of terrestrial habitats.
  • Understand what a habitat is.
Second Term
  • Compare the properties of different states of matter.
  • Understand that solids, liquids and gases are all forms of matter.
  • Identify the different states of matter.
  • Understand the three states of water: solid, liquid and gas. Set up a simple investigation.
  • State that matter can be converted from one state to another.
  • Understand that changes take place when water is frozen.
  • Predict the outcome of any experiment.
  • Recognize a fair test and use results to draw a conclusion.
  • Carry out an investigation and record observations.
  • Recognize the importance and some properties of air.
  • Explain how simple mechanisms facilitate movement.
  • Identify the visible effects of wind.
  • Understand that the new materials resulting from forces and hear are often different and useful.
  • Understand that sounds are all around.
  • Recognize the differences in sounds.
  • Understand how electricity is useful and dangerous.
  • Recognize some electrical objects.

Assessment

Teachers will continually assess the students' progress throughout the year, but there are no formal exams in Science.

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