How to read this page
Manitoba publishes its curriculum as long official documents written for teachers. This page is the same content, translated for the fridge door: each subject below shows this year's units and the skills inside them. If a skill sounds unfamiliar, that's the point — now you know what to ask about at dinner.
Mathematics this year
Numbers stop being abstract this year — they become things your child can count, compare, build, and explain. In Manitoba, that's Mathematics, Grade 2 — 4 units, 35 skills.
Number
- Skip-counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s to 100
- Even and odd numbers
- Showing numbers to 100
Patterns and Relations
- Predicting elements in a repeating pattern
- Equal and not equal
Shape and Space
- Reading the calendar
- Choosing a good measuring unit
- Sorting by two attributes
See the full Mathematics, Grade 2 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
English Language Arts this year
Reading and writing grow fast at this age — this is the year the letters turn into stories. In Manitoba, that's English Language Arts, Grade 2 — 4 units, 50 skills.
Explore and Discover Language and Literacy
- Listen to and build on the ideas
- Experiment with language to initiate and maintain
- Use complex sentences with attention to new
Comprehend and Respond to Multimodal Texts
- Activate prior knowledge including knowledge gained from
- Select a variety of multimodal texts based
- Examine gathered information to decide what information
Compose and Create Multimodal Texts
- Generate and contribute ideas to a topic
- Discuss new information gathered from more than
- Use strategies to plan for text creation
Communicate Ideas and Build New Understandings
- Adjust communication style (formal or informal) to share ideas for different audiences
- Develop self-monitoring skills and adjust their approach
- Set specific learning goals related to listening
See the full English Language Arts, Grade 2 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Science this year
Science at this age is guided curiosity — observing, sorting, asking why, and testing ideas hands-on. In Manitoba, that's Science, Grade 2 — 5 units, 68 skills.
Scientific Skills and Inquiry
- Using tools to observe and measure
- Making graphs of our data
Growth and Changes in Animals
- Words for growth and changes
- The four food groups
- Offspring look like their parents
Properties of Solids, Liquids, and Gases
- Words for solids, liquids, and gases
- Does it dissolve?
- Air is all around us
Position and Motion
- Words for position and motion
- Ways things move
- How a ramp's slope changes things
Air and Water in the Environment
- Words for air and water
- Water all around us
- Where drinking water comes from
See the full Science, Grade 2 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →
Three ways parents use this list
Common questions
What does my child learn in Grade 2 in Manitoba?
Manitoba's official curriculum sets out Mathematics, English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies for Grade 2 — 197 specific skills in total. The big themes: Mathematics covers number and patterns and relations; English Language Arts covers explore and discover language and literacy and comprehend and respond to multimodal texts; Science covers scientific skills and inquiry and growth and changes in animals. The full list is on this page.
Is this the official Manitoba curriculum?
It's built from Manitoba's official program of studies, reorganized into plain language — and each subject links to a course page that quotes the ministry's own wording and links to the government source, so you can check our work. One honest caveat: we're not the ministry, curricula do change, and we can't guarantee this reflects the very latest revision, so confirm anything important against the live provincial curriculum data.
My child is finding one of these skills hard. What can I do?
That's normal — every skill on this page is one most kids wobble on at first. MapleMind teaches any of them one-on-one: a short lesson in plain words, a worked example, then solving together. It's free to start, on any device, in 14 languages.
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MapleMind isn't affiliated with any ministry of education. We build these guides from each province's official program of studies and refresh them from time to time — but curricula change, and we can't guarantee this page reflects the very latest revision. Always confirm against the live provincial curriculum data. Last updated 2026-08-15.
Social Studies this year
Social studies starts close to home — family, community, and how people live together. In Manitoba, that's Social Studies, Grade 2 — 3 units, 44 skills.
Our Local Community
- What makes a community
- Natural resources near me
- Stories from my community's past
+ 18 more skills in this unit →Communities in Canada
- Canada's original peoples
- What Canadian communities share
- Resources across Canada
+ 9 more skills in this unit →The Canadian Community
- Symbols of Canada and Manitoba
- Many communities, one Canada
- Canada's diversity
+ 8 more skills in this unit →See the full Social Studies, Grade 2 curriculum, with the ministry's own wording →