browser icon
You are using an insecure version of your web browser. Please update your browser!
Using an outdated browser makes your computer unsafe. For a safer, faster, more enjoyable user experience, please update your browser today or try a newer browser.
  1. Home
    2. /
  2. Curriculum Activities (Grade 1-8)
    3. /
  3. Grade 2
    4. /
  4. Grade 2 – Active Living

Grade 2 – Active Living

1 – Active Participation

Grade 2 Overall Expectations:

Actively participate in a wide variety of program activities, according to their capabilities, while applying behaviours that enhance their readiness and ability to take part

Demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to their personal enjoyment of being active as they participate in a wide variety of individual and small-group activities

Identify reasons for participating in physical activity every day

2 – Physical Fitness

Grade 2 Overall Expectations:

Daily Physical Activity (DPA): participate in sustained moderate to vigorous physical activity, with appropriate warmup and cool-down activities, to the best of their ability for a minimum of twenty minutes each day

Describe different types of activities that improve the strength of the heart and lungs

Recognize their degree of exertion in physical activities by using simple assessment methods, and identify factors that affect their performance level

Participate in setting and achieving realistic personal and group goals related to physical activity

3 – Safety

Grade 2 Overall Expectations:

Demonstrate behaviours and apply procedures that maximize their safety and that of others during physical activity

Identify ways of protecting themselves and others, including those with medical conditions, from safety risks while participating in physical activities