TVO Learn is designed to meet each student where they are on their learning journey. Learning Activities are comprehensive and require guided instruction from an adult, while Resources for Learning, Apply the Learning prompts and Vocabulary lists work well to reinforce specific skills or to enable independent exploration of a subject. Use these helpful tips to get the most from TVO Learn.
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Curriculum Overview
In the Grade 2 arts curriculum, learners are encouraged to be creative every day.
- In Grade 2 Dance, students begin to use personal experience, imagination, and familiar movements to develop a movement vocabulary, to respond to prompts and express ideas, and to communicate their thoughts and feelings in various situations.
- The Grade 2 Drama curriculum explores the student’s self, family, personal experiences, and world. Through guided practice, students begin to develop the ability to use creative and critical thinking processes, building upon prior knowledge and experience from their diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
- In the primary grades, students experience and explore the elements of music through singing, listening to, and moving to a variety of songs, rhymes, and chants. Their experiences should include a wide variety of recorded and live music. In Grade 2, they continue to sing in unison, and learn to use patterns of sound found in speech to create simple accompaniments and explore simple and invented notation.
- In Grade 2, students begin to explore visual art in the world around them, to understand that people all over the world create and enjoy art, and to develop the ability to communicate about their immediate environment and interests through visual images.
The arts curriculum is divided into four strands:
- Dance
- Drama
- Music
- Visual Arts
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Learning Activities
Learning Activities provide opportunity for deeper exploration of a subject. Organized by grade and topic (or strand), students should be guided through each Learning Activity by an adult. Before clicking on a topic to prepare for or begin this guided instruction, be sure to read these helpful tips about how to get the most out of TVO Learn.
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Resources for Learning
Chosen by TVO educators, these resources support the curriculum outlined above. Review the below list of options along with the activities. Then, read, watch, listen or play to build understanding and knowledge.
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Apply the Learning
Choose from the following to consolidate learning across The Arts.
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Think about all the short movements that you do in daily life (riding a bike, doing work at home like sweeping/mopping/, movements from sports, or playground games). Choose one daily movement. Show this body movement with your body.
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If you could be any animal, what animal would you be. What shape and movements would you make to show an animal with your body, arms and legs? How would you change your body movements to show this animal move close to the ground and higher above the ground?
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How can you show the audience that you are ready to start and stop the dance performance?
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After watching a variety of ceremonial dances ( Lion dance, carnival) How are animals movements depicted? What shapes would our bodies take to create a picture of the trees, and the sun and the wind and the animals?
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Think about your favourite TVO kids show. What is a key moment in this show that you can dramatize? How might you use a freeze, bring it to life for one minute through mime, and then create another freeze to communicate the story?
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Explain using words or pictures how watching a TV show is different from going to see a live play.
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Think about some dramatic experiences that you may have experienced at school or in your community. How are they similar or different to each other?
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Identify some songs that should be sung softly or loudly and explain why.
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Draw a facial expressions (happy, sad, surprised) to represent how different songs make you feel.
- Create a list of songs that families might sing at special occasions or celebrations.
- View the following art work: Snowballs by Lois Ehlert, The Snowy Day by Ezra Keats, The Block by Romare Bearden. What kinds of details can you see? What materials in these images might you like to use in your neighbourhood collage?
- Create a stamp using sponge, styrofoam or potato. Use that stamp to create a painting or series of stamp print sprints showing depth, perspective and contrast of pattern with overlapping.
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How can you use colour and arrangement in the images and pictures in the mural to emphasize the most important personal landmarks along the way to school? If you want to make this painting ’feel’ like a hot summer day, what kinds of colours would you need to repeat?
- Create a diorama or sculpture to make insects and habitat with various natural materials.
Vocabulary
Review this list of vocabulary associated with the curriculum. Practice spelling, research definitions, and find these vocabulary words when engaging with the TVO resources or completing learning activities.
Students should understand and be able to apply these words in context.
- Dance
- Drama
- Music
- Visual Arts
body awareness
body parts
force
freeze
pathways
size of movement
dramatic play
role play
perspectives
in role
performance
tradition
out of role
theatre
composition
chorus
half note
half rest
harmony
verse
whole note
whole rest
depth
diagonal
form
horizontal
repetition
rhythm
rough
secondary colours
smooth
symmetrical
tints
vertical