GRADE 4

The Arts
Music
Visual Arts
Dance and Drama

Health and Physical Education

GRADE 6

Read standard notation

Create simple rhythms/melodies

Read simple musical notation

Play simple musical notation
Influence of music on pop culture

Read musical notation

Perform from musical notation

2D and 3D art: personal expression

Use various mediums/techniques
Analyze and reflect on art

Personal expression
Interpret art works
Identify signs, symbols, and styles

Personal expression
Create narrative/themed art works
Interpret art works

Narrative dance forms

Culture/community and dance
Role play and personal expression
Themes/issues addressed in drama

Guided improvisation in dance

Depict themes through dance
Identify elements of dance
Use props and materials
New perspectives/ideas in role play
Identify preferences in drama

Participate in physical activity

Understand their strengths and
needs through self-assessment and
self-monitoring
Demonstrate safe behaviour
Develop movement competence
Set goals and evaluate life choices
Promote healthy living

Same as Grade 4 +
Note physical responses in fitness
Be proactive on safety
Identify people and supportive
services for personal safety
Understand the reproductive system
Understand nutrition facts
Influence of media on food choices
Learn how to handle peer pressure

Same as Grade 5 +
Assess personal level of healthrelated fitness
Set personal fitness goals
Treatment of minor injuries
Effects of illicit drugs
Factors that influence desire to eat
Manage/avoid social conflict
Assess effects of stereotypes

Listen to understand and respond

appropriately in a given situation
Detect bias in oral texts
Use speaking strategies to
communicate with a given audience
Understand a variety of text using
reading strategies (cueing systems)
Text features and stylistic elements
Write for an intended audience
Draft and revise writing
Identify some media forms
Create a variety of media texts
Reflect on strengths and weaknesses

Same as Grade 4 +
Use punctuation appropriately
Parts of speech
Interpret media text
Audience responses to media
Main elements of media forms

Same as Grade 5 +
Demonstrate more sophisticated
understanding of appropriate
speaking behaviour
Analyze more complex texts

Language

GRADE 5

Call-and-response dance forms

Relate dance to personal experience
Dance and popular culture
Use dramatic effects and settings
Identify key theatre personnel

Mathematics

Science and Technology

Decimals and fractions

(addition and subtraction)
Simple multiplication + division
Measurements of length (mm), time
intervals, mass (g), capacity (ml)
Measurement of volume
Area and perimeter of rectangles
Identify 2D geometric properties
Construct 3D figures
Find patterns in addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division
Stem-&-leaf plots; double bar graphs
Median
Predict frequency of outcomes
Investigate probability

Students will understand that/the

Plants and animals are
interdependent and are adapted to
meet their needs from the resources
available in their particular habitats
Changes to habitats (whether natural
or anthropological) can affect plants
and animals & their relationships
Society relies on plants and animals
Pulleys and gears change the speed,
direction, and motion of, and force
exerted on, moving objects
Pulleys and gears make it easy to
generate a large output force
Light and sound are forms of energy
Sound is created by vibrations
Light is required to see
Environmental impact of tech
innovations with light and sound
Properties of rocks and minerals and
their respective uses

Decimals and fractions

(multiplication and division)
Measurement of time intervals,
elapsed time, and temperature
Conversion of measurements in
distance and time
Relate capacity and volume
Relationships between rectangle
area and perimeter
Acute, right, obtuse, straight angles
Measurement of angles to 90
Cardinal directions
Translations
Identify polygons and prisms
Investigate variables
Broken-line graphs
Mean

Students will understand that/the

Organ systems work together to
meet our needs and have structures
linked to function
Our choices affect our systems
Forces act on, and affect, all
structures and mechanisms
Designs of structures/mechanisms
are determined by the acting forces
Effect of forces on society and the
environment
3 states of matter
Matter that changes state is still the
same matter
Physical vs. chemical change
Renewable/non-renewable energy
Energy cant be created or
destroyed but can be transformed
Energy/resource conservation

Decimals, percents, rate and ratios

Use metric units
Area relationships in parallelogram,
triangle, and rectangles
Volume in simple prisms
Properties of quadrilaterals
Measurement of angles to 180
Isometric sketches
Rotations
Describe pattern rules
Solve equations
Continuous line graphs
Theoretical probabilities and
frequency prediction

Students will understand that/the

Biodiversity of Earth
All living things are connected
Our choices impact biodiversity
Properties of air
Structures that allow for flight
Electrical energy (EE) can be
transformed into other forms of
energy and vice versa
Role and impact of EE in society and
the environment
Earth is part of a large interrelated
system
Impact of technological and
scientific advances that enable us to
study space

Social Studies

Students will understand that/the

We can better understand the
present by studying the past
Impact of environment on daily life
of early societies
Key aspects of early societies
Relationship between human activity
and the environment: importance of
a balance between stewardship and
human needs/wants
Canadas political/physical regions

FSL (optional)

Native Languages (optional)

Listening strategies to undersatnd

oral French texts and interact
appropriately with the audience
Awareness of sociolinguistic
conventions in French communities
Speaking strategies to communicate
info and ideas orally
Reading strategies to determine
meaning in, and purpose of, text
Use stages of writing process to
produce written work
Aspects of Francophone culture
Communicate in familiar contexts
using simple sentences
Demonstrate understanding of
spoken language in familiar contexts
through verbal/non-verbal cues
Read simple sentences
Write simple sentences
Apply knowledge of language
elements (syntax, nouns, verbs)
Demonstrate appreciation and
understanding of aspects of Native
culture under study

Students will understand that/the

Interpersonal interactions can be
positive or negative
Relationship between First Nations
and Europeans in Canada prior to
1713: each group has their own
perspectives
Main communities in Canada before
1713: cooperation vs. conflict
Citizen and government responses
to significant issues in Canada
Effective citizens understand their
rights and responsibilities

Students will understand that/the

Contributions and significant events
of various groups to Canadas
development
Different perspectives on events in
Canadas development
Importance of international
cooperation in global issues
Global issues and actions
Involvement of Canada in some
regions around the world

Same as Grade 4 +
Engage in brief, structured spoken
interactions with peers and teacher
Identify purpose(s) and
characteristics of a variety of
reading text forms

Same as Grade 5 +
Identify French-speaking
communities in Canada and find out
aspects of their culture
Engage in guided spoken
interactions with peers and teacher

Communicate in various contexts

using sentences
Demonstrate understanding of
spoken language in various contexts
Read and write sentences
Demonstrate appreciation and
understanding of aspects of Native
culture under study

Communicate in various contexts

and for a variety of purposes
Demonstrate understanding of
simple oral texts (e.g. short story)
Grammar elements
Read variety of print materials
Write for various purposes
Demonstrate appreciation and
understanding of aspects of Native
culture under study