What your child learns in Kindergarten in New Brunswick
Kindergarten in New Brunswick builds early learning through play. Children explore language and literacy, early mathematics, and the inquiry, well-being and community learning in Explore Your World. There are no separate science and social studies courses in Kindergarten to Grade 2.
Kindergarten 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.
7 units, including count to 10, numbers to 20, more, less, same, make 5 and 10.
English Language Arts
Big Ideas
- Interactions: Expression. Express feelings and opinions, and give simple descriptions of experiences.
- Interactions: Exchanges. Begin to ask and respond to questions.
- Interactions: Reception. Receive the ideas and opinions of others.
9 units, including book detectives, letter partners, first sounds, rhyme time.
Science
Big Ideas
- Literacies and Communications: Communicative Practices. Examine how language learning is beneficial.
- Literacies and Communications: Multimodal Literacies. Refer to environmental print in multiple languages.
- Literacies and Communications: Literate Identities. Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.
6 units, including what living things need, animal features, weather & seasons, materials.
Social Studies
Big Ideas
- Literacies and Communications: Communicative Practices. Examine how language learning is beneficial.
- Literacies and Communications: Multimodal Literacies. Refer to environmental print in multiple languages.
- Literacies and Communications: Literate Identities. Demonstrate being a reader, writer, and communicator in multiple languages.
6 units, including all about me, families, we belong, needs & wants.
What to look for on the report card
Look for comments on listening, early letters and sounds, counting and comparing, sharing ideas, and getting along with classmates.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Excelling. See what each level means.
The Global Competencies grow through every subject from Kindergarten to Grade 12. Read about global competencies.
Common questions
Kindergarten covers math, english language arts, science, social studies in the New Brunswick Curriculum. Kindergarten in New Brunswick builds early learning through play. Children explore language and literacy, early mathematics, and the inquiry, well-being and community learning in Explore Your World. There are no separate science and social studies courses in Kindergarten to Grade 2.
New Brunswick report cards describe learning with Working below, Approaching, Meeting, Excelling.
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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