What Your Year 2 Child Needs to Know

Editor: E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
UK General Editor: Robert Whelan
UK Deputy Editor: Tanya Lubicz-Nawrocka
August 2012

What Your Year 2 Child Needs to Know is the second in the series of six books—one for each year—for teachers, parents, home educators and children to enjoy. Read below to see a selection of the varied topics and activities it includes.

Language and Literature:

• Reading, Writing and Your Year 2 Child
• Familiar and Favourite Poems, including: A Good Play by Robert Louis Stevenson, Three Wise Men of Gotham, The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess
• Stories, Tall Tales and Drama, including: Aesop’s Fable: The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, King of the Nogs, Issun Boshi, ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf: A Play’
• Tongue Twisters, Riddle Rhymes and Familiar Sayings, including: ‘Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers’ and Rhymes, ‘Let the cat out of the bag’, ‘The more the merrier’, ‘If at first you don’t succeed…’

History and Geography:

• World History and Geography, including: Fantastic Pharaohs, A Journey Down the Nile, A Great Mesopotamian Story, What Different People Believe
• British and European Geography, including: The Countries of the British Isles, Scandinavian Geography, Great Explorers: Roald Amundsen
• British History, including: Romans in Britain, Roman Influences on Britain, Post-Roman Britain, Archaeology, The Vikings; Tall Tales, Alfred Burns the Cakes, Normans in Britain, The Domesday Book, May Day Celebrations

Visual Arts:

• People Have Been Making Art for a Very Long Time, including: Queen Nefertiti’s Eyes, Ancient Egyptian Art, Masterpieces in Metal, Treasure from the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
• Colours, Shapes and Textures, including: Monet, Hockney, Dürer, Making Mini Picassos
• Looking Good: Portraits, including: The Queen’s Portrait, da Vinci, Rembrandt, Hogarth
• Murals: Paintings on Walls, including: Paula Rego and Chalk It Up!

Music:

• Making Music, including: Musical Instruments, The Orchestra and Great Composers
• What You Can Do With Music, including: Music Can Make You Move, Jazz, Improvising
• Favourite Songs, including: ‘The Grand Old Duke of York’, ‘La Cucaracha’, Michael Finnigan, There’s a Hole in my Bucket, Billy Boy

Mathematics:

• Numbers, Number Sense and Money, including: Place Value, Using Graphs, Fractions, Coin Combinations, Counting Money, Notes
• Addition and Subtraction, including: Practising Addition, Practising Subtraction, Two-Digit Addition and Subtraction, Comparing Differences and Sums
• Multiplication and Division, including: What is Multiplication?, Practising Multiplication, Word Problems and Missing Factors, Division, Operations, Division Word Problems, Division and Fractions

Science:

• Living Things and Their Habitats, including: Woodland Habitat, Underground Habitat, Desert Habitat, Freshwater Habitat, Ocean Habitat, The Food Chain, Dinosaurs
• Oceans and Undersea Life, including: Tides, Ocean Currents, Under the Sea
• The Human Body, including: Skeletal System, Muscular System, Circulatory System, Digestive System, Nervous System
• Matter: Solid, Liquid, and Gas, including: Atoms and Changing States of Matter
• Units of Measurement, including: Units of Measurement, How Long?, How Much Space Does it Fill?
• Electricity: An Introduction to the Shocking Facts, including: How Electricity Works, What Conducts?
• Astronomy: Our Solar System, including: A Star and Nine Planets, The Moon, What Makes Day and Night?
• Down to Earth, including: The Earth Makes Different Kinds of Rocks, The Earth’s Important Minerals
• Stories About Scientists, including: Jenner, Pasteur, Edison, Franklin

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