What your child learns in Grade 4 in New Brunswick
Grade 4 raises the pace on reading, writing and number work. Science looks at Earth materials: rocks, minerals, soil and the forces that change Earth's surface. Social studies explores explorers and their impacts, Canada's regions and Wabanaki cultures. Intensive French begins for non-immersion learners, and a Grade 4 provincial assessment is listed.
Grade 4 subjects in the New Brunswick Curriculum
Math
Big Ideas
- Number: Number Sense. Develop number sense.
- Number: Operations. Develop number sense.
- Statistics and Probability: Data Analysis. Collect, display and analyze data to solve problems.
12 units, including numbers to 10 000, add & subtract, times tables, multiply & divide.
English Language Arts
Big Ideas
- Interactions: Expression. Express and discuss thoughts, feelings, experiences, ideas, and opinions, and consider those of their peers.
- Interactions: Exchanges. Ask and respond to questions to clarify information, explore possibilities, and identify solutions to a problem.
- Interactions: Reception. Receive and critically reflect on the ideas and opinions of others.
12 units, including listen, speak & read aloud, word builders, sound-alikes, parts of speech.
Science
Big Ideas
- Grade focus: Properties and Uses of Earth Materials.
- Scientific Literacy: Investigation. Plan investigations to solve problems relating to the natural world: the Earth’s crust, changes in the Earth’s surface, rocks, minerals, soils, and uses of Earth’s resources.
- Scientific Literacy: Sensemaking. Analyze data to construct explanations and conclusions based on evidence from scientific inquiry.
4 units, including habitats & communities, food chains & webs, light, sound.
Social Studies
Big Ideas
- Geography: Places and Regions. Explain the importance of major physical features of the world.
- Geography: Human Systems and Interactions. Describe the relationship between humans and the physical environment.
- History: Events and Peoples. Describe the stories of various explorers of land, ocean, space, and ideas.
5 units, including canada’s landform regions, provinces & regions, people & the land, wabanaki lands & waters.
French Immersion
Big Ideas
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Comprehension. Understand different oral texts on a variety of familiar/known topics, topics studied and personal interests.
- Speaking and Listening: Oral Production and Interaction. Communicate about familiar/known topics, topics studied and personal interests using specific language.
- Reading and Viewing: Phonics. Use knowledge of written sounds (graphemes) to read words in text accurately.
9 units, including tu ou vous?, poser des questions, synonymes et contraires, les adverbes en -ment.
Core French
Big Ideas
- Oral Communication: Speak, Listen, Communicate, Interact. Ask for and provide information in school settings with some accuracy.
- Reading and Viewing: Read, Comprehend, Respond, Interpret. Read, comprehend, and interpret very simple texts.
- Writing and Representing: Create Simple Texts. Produce simple texts on familiar topics.
6 units, including greetings, my classroom, colours, numbers 0 to 20.
What to look for on the report card
Look for comments on reading for meaning, organized paragraphs, fractions and decimals, and using sources to explain exploration and its impacts.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Excelling. See what each level means.
Grade 4 students also take the New Brunswick provincial assessments. Read the Provincial assessments guide.
The Global Competencies grow through every subject from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Read about global competencies.
Ready for Grade 4?
Grade 4 builds on what your child practised in Grade 3. If a skill feels shaky, a few short practice sessions before or early in the year can help:
- Math: numbers to 1000, add & subtract, facts to 20, multiplication, division
- English Language Arts: speaking & listening, spelling patterns, prefixes & suffixes, word pairs, abc order & dictionary
- Science: plant parts & needs, how plants grow & change, pushes, pulls & forces, structures & their jobs, strong & stable
- Social Studies: maps & globes, my province: new brunswick, wabanaki nations of new brunswick, the peoples of new brunswick, groups, leaders & getting along
- French Immersion: je me, tu te, il se, et, mais, ou, avec, ne… pas, le futur proche, les pluriels en -x
Common questions
Grade 4 covers math, english language arts, science, social studies, french immersion, core french in the New Brunswick Curriculum. Grade 4 raises the pace on reading, writing and number work. Science looks at Earth materials: rocks, minerals, soil and the forces that change Earth's surface. Social studies explores explorers and their impacts, Canada's regions and Wabanaki cultures. Intensive French begins for non-immersion learners, and a Grade 4 provincial assessment is listed.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Excelling. Students in Grade 4 also write the New Brunswick provincial assessments, which is separate from the report card.
Short, regular practice works better than long sessions: 10 to 15 minutes a few times a week, on the skills your child's teacher flags. Read together, use math in real life, and praise effort.
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