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Grade 2

Foundation stage · NCF Foundational · SSEB levels 1–5

Draft on the approved Grade-7 pattern — under academic review

Method for this stage: Play → Story → Song → Habit. Foundation stage — rhythm over textbook, one step deeper than Grade 1 in every domain.

Sanatan Gyan ज्ञान

Unit: Stories with a why

Topics

  • Ramayana episodes told aloud, in order
  • Why did Rama go; why did Hanuman leap
  • The story's places on a simple map

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Retell three Ramayana episodes in order
  • Answer one why-question about a story
  • Point to Ayodhya and Lanka on the class map

Activities · Assessment

Story sequencing cards · Story map wall
Assessed by: Observation — retelling with order and reason

Sources

PSRamayana story tradition, told orally ASStorytelling pedagogy GONCF Foundational-stage guidance SSEBEpisode selection and sequencing

Further units this grade

Krishna's childhood, in order

Sanskrit & Bharatiya Bhasha भाषा

Unit: Devanagari friends

Topics

  • The vowels as songs
  • Reading own name in Devanagari
  • Ten everyday Sanskrit words

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Sound the vowels correctly
  • Read and write their own name
  • Use ten Sanskrit words for real things

Activities · Assessment

Name cards · Word-object matching
Assessed by: Observation + simple reading check

Sources

PSEveryday Sanskrit vocabulary ASEarly-literacy pedagogy GONCF Foundational language guidance SSEBWord list selection

Further units this grade

Consonant families begin

Darshana & Viveka दर्शन

Unit: Real and pretend

Topics

  • Story or happened — telling them apart
  • Fair and unfair in games
  • Why we ask before we take

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Sort story from happened in examples
  • Say what was unfair in a game and why

Activities · Assessment

Fair-game experiments · True-or-story game
Assessed by: Observation — reasoning in play

Sources

PSNone claimed — practice ASPhilosophy-for-children practice GONCF Foundational guidance SSEBThe real-and-pretend frame

Further units this grade

Kind words, unkind words

Dharma & Ethics धर्म

Unit: My small duties

Topics

  • A duty at home, chosen and kept
  • Helping without being asked once a day
  • Care for one shared thing at school

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Keep one home duty for a term
  • Name who they helped and how
  • Share responsibility for a class resource

Activities · Assessment

Duty chart · Helper of the day
Assessed by: Observation — duties kept

Sources

PSNone claimed — practice ASCharacter-education practice GONCF values guidance SSEBThe kept-duty frame

Further units this grade

The class garden

Sanskriti & Civilisation संस्कृति

Unit: My family's traditions

Topics

  • What my family does, and what yours does
  • Same festival, different homes
  • Respecting a difference out loud

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Describe one family tradition of their own
  • Describe one classmate's different way, kindly

Activities · Assessment

Tradition show-and-tell · Class traditions book
Assessed by: Observation — telling and respecting

Sources

PSThe families' living traditions ASCulture pedagogy GONCF guidance SSEBThe same-festival-different-homes frame

Further units this grade

Foods of the festivals

Bharatiya Knowledge Systems IKS

Unit: Numbers had a home here

Topics

  • Our numerals: everyone's numbers began here — said simply
  • Counting to bigger numbers with bundles
  • Patterns that repeat and grow

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Say, simply, that the world's numerals grew from India's
  • Bundle-count past one hundred
  • Build a growing pattern

Activities · Assessment

Bundle counting · Pattern building
Assessed by: Observation + counting check

Sources

PSThe numeral tradition, named simply ASHistory-of-number told for children GONCF numeracy guidance SSEBThe numbers-had-a-home story, evidence-shaped

Further units this grade

Measuring with hands and feet

Yoga & Swasthya स्वास्थ्य

Unit: The morning circle

Topics

  • A five-asana morning sequence
  • Belly breathing
  • Sleep and screens — said simply

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Lead one asana for the class
  • Do belly breathing when asked
  • Say why sleep matters, simply

Activities · Assessment

Morning circle · Breath before stories
Assessed by: Observation — never medical claims

Sources

PSYoga tradition, named ASMovement pedagogy GONCF health guidance SSEBSequence design

Further units this grade

Water and washing

Kala & Kaushal कला

Unit: Make it again, better

Topics

  • A craft tried twice — see the second one improve
  • Rhythm with the class
  • Colours of the festivals

Learning outcomes — the student will

  • Show first and second attempts and say what improved
  • Keep a steady clap-rhythm in a group

Activities · Assessment

Two-attempt craft · Rhythm circle
Assessed by: Observation — the improvement, named by the child

Sources

PSLiving craft traditions ASArts pedagogy GONCF arts guidance SSEBThe again-better frame

Further units this grade

Paper toran for the classroom