GRADE 1
ORAL COMMUNICATION
- Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
- Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.
READING
- Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning
- Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
- Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
WRITING
- Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
- Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience.
- Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
MEDIA LITERACY
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts.
- Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning.
- Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Measurement: measuring using non-standard units; telling time to the nearest half-hour; developing a sense of area; comparing objects using measurable attributes; comparing objects using non-standard units; investigating the relationship between the size of a unit and the number of units needed to measure the length of an object
Geometry and Spatial Sense: sorting and classifying two-dimensional shapes and three- dimensional figures by attributes; recognizing symmetry; relating shapes to other shapes, to designs, and to figures; describing location using positional language
Patterning and Algebra: creating and extending repeating patterns involving one attribute; introducing the concept of equality using only concrete materials
Data Management and Probability: organizing objects into categories using one attribute; collecting and organizing categorical data; reading and displaying data using concrete graphs and pictographs; describing the likelihood that an event will occur
Understanding Structures and Mechanism: Materials, Objects, and Everyday Structures
Understanding Matter and Energy: Energy in Our Lives
Understanding Earth and Space Systems: Daily and Seasonal Changes
GRADE 2
ORAL COMMUNICATION
- Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
- Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.
READING
- Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning
- Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
- Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
WRITING
- Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
- Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience.
- Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
MEDIA LITERACY
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts.
- Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning.
- Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Measurement: measuring length using centimetres and metres; telling time to the nearest quarter-hour; measuring perimeter, area, mass, and capacity using non-standard units; describing and establishing temperature change; choosing personal referents for the centimetre and the metre; comparing the mass and capacity of objects using non-standard units; relating days to weeks and months to years.
Geometry and Spatial Sense: distinguishing between attributes that are geometric properties and attributes that are not geometric properties; classifying two-dimensional shapes by geometric properties (number of sides and vertices); classifying three-dimensional figures by geometric properties (number and shape of faces); locating a line of symmetry; composing and decomposing shapes; describing relative locations and paths of motion.
Patterning and Algebra: identifying and describing repeating patterns and growing and shrinking patterns; developing the concept of equality using the addition and subtraction of numbers to 18 and the equal sign; using the commutative property and the property of zero in addition to facilitate computation.
Data Management and Probability: organizing objects into categories using two attributes; collecting and organizing categorical and discrete data; reading and displaying data using line plots and simple bar graphs; describing probability, in simple games and experiments, as the likelihood that an event will occur
Understanding Structures and Mechanism: Movement
Understanding Matter and Energy: Properties of Liquids and Solids
Understanding Earth and Space Systems: Air and Water in the Environment
GRADE 3
ORAL COMMUNICATION
- Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
- Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.
READING
- Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning
- Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
- Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
WRITING
- Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
- Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience.
- Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
MEDIA LITERACY
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts.
- Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning.
- Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Measurement: measuring distance using kilometres; telling time to the nearest 5 minutes; identifying temperature benchmarks; measuring perimeter using standard units; measuring mass in kilograms and capacity in litres; measuring area using grid paper; comparing the length, mass, and capacity of objects using standard units; relating minutes to hours, hours to days, days to weeks, and weeks to years
Geometry and Spatial Sense: using a reference tool to identify right angles and to compare angles with a right angle; classifying two-dimensional shapes by geometric properties (number of sides and angles); classifying three-dimensional figures by geometric properties (number of faces, edges, and vertices); relating different types of quadrilaterals; naming prisms and pyramids; identifying congruent shapes; describing movement on a grid map; recognizing transformations
Patterning and Algebra: creating and extending growing and shrinking patterns; representing geometric patterns with a number sequence, a number line, and a bar graph; determining the missing numbers in equations involving addition and subtraction of one- and two-digit numbers; investigating the properties of zero and one in multiplication
Data Management and Probability: organizing objects into categories using two or more attributes; collecting and organizing categorical and discrete data; reading and displaying data using vertical and horizontal bar graphs; understanding mode; predicting the frequency of an outcome; relating fair games to equally likely events
Understanding Structures and Mechanism: Movement
Understanding Matter and Energy: Properties of Liquids and Solids
Understanding Earth and Space Systems: Air and Water in the Environment
GRADE 4
ORAL COMMUNICATION
- Listen in order to understand and respond appropriately in a variety of situations for a variety of purposes.
- Use speaking skills and strategies appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as listeners and speakers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in oral communication situations.
READING
- Read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of strategies to construct meaning
- Recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help communicate meaning.
- Use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as readers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful before, during, and after reading.
WRITING
- Generate, gather, and organize ideas and information to write for an intended purpose and audience.
- Draft and revise their writing, using a variety of informational, literary, and graphic forms and stylistic elements appropriate for the purpose and audience.
- Use editing, proofreading, and publishing skills and strategies, and knowledge of language conventions, to correct errors, refine expression, and present their work effectively.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as writers, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful at different stages in the writing process.
MEDIA LITERACY
- Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media texts.
- Identify some media forms and explain how the conventions and techniques associated with them are used to create meaning.
- Create a variety of media texts for different purposes and audiences, using appropriate forms, conventions, and techniques.
- Reflect on and identify their strengths as media interpreters and creators, areas for improvement, and the strategies they found most helpful in understanding and creating media texts.
Measurement: measuring length using millimetres; measuring time intervals to the nearest minute; determining elapsed time; measuring mass in grams and capacity in millilitres; measuring volume using concrete materials; determining area and perimeter relationships for rectangles; comparing the mass and capacity of objects using standard units; relating years to decades and decades to centuries
Geometry and Spatial Sense: identifying geometric properties of parallelograms; classifying two-dimensional shapes by geometric properties (number of sides, angles, and symmetry); identifying a straight angle, a right angle, and half a right angle; classifying prisms and pyramids by geometric properties; constructing three-dimensional figures in a variety of ways; describing location using a grid system; performing and describing reflections
Patterning and Algebra: relating the term and the term number in a numeric sequence; generating patterns that involve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and reflections; determining the missing numbers in equations involving multiplication of one- and two-digit numbers; using the commutative and distributive properties to facilitate computation
Data Management and Probability: collecting and organizing discrete data; reading and displaying data using stem-and-leaf plots and double bar graphs; understanding median; com- paring two related sets of data; predicting the frequency of an outcome; investigating how the number of repetitions of a probability experiment affects the conclusion drawn
Understanding Structures and Mechanism: Pulleys and Gears
Understanding Matter and Energy: Light and Sound
Understanding Earth and Space Systems: Rocks and Minerals