What your child learns in Grade 1 in Ontario

Big Ideas

• B1 Number Sense: Demonstrate an understanding of numbers and make connections to the way numbers are used in everyday life
• B2 Operations: Use knowledge of numbers and operations to solve mathematical problems encountered in everyday life
• C1 Patterns and Relationships: Identify, describe, extend, create, and make predictions about a variety of patterns, including those found in real-life contexts

15 units, including numbers to 50, make 10, adding, take away.

Big Ideas

• A1 Transferable Skills: Demonstrate an understanding of how the seven transferable skills (critical thinking and problem solving; innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship; self-directed learning; collaboration; communication; global citizenship and sustainability; and digital literacy) are used in various language and literacy contexts
• A2 Digital Media Literacy: Demonstrate and apply the knowledge and skills needed to interact safely and responsibly in online environments, use digital and media tools to construct knowledge, and demonstrate learning as critical consumers and creators of media
• A3 Applications, Connections, and Contributions: Apply language and literacy skills in cross-curricular and integrated learning, and demonstrate an understanding of, and make connections to, diverse voices, experiences, perspectives, histories, and contributions, including those of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit individuals, communities, groups, and nations

13 units, including blend it, short vowels, sh, ch, th, word families.

Big Ideas

• A1 STEM Investigation and Communication Skills: Use a scientific research process, a scientific experimentation process, and an engineering design process to conduct investigations, following appropriate health and safety procedures
• A2 Coding and Emerging Technologies: Use coding in investigations and to model concepts, and assess the impact of coding and of emerging technologies on everyday life
• A3 Applications, Connections, and Contributions: Demonstrate an understanding of the practical applications of science and technology, and of contributions to science and technology from people with diverse lived experiences

11 units, including think like a scientist, living things, what living things need, our bodies & senses.

Big Ideas

• A1 Application: Why Roles and Responsibilities Change: Describe some of the ways in which people’s roles, relationships with, and responsibilities to others and the world around them relate to who they are and what their situation is, and how and why changes in circumstances might affect people’s roles, relationships, and responsibilities as well as their sense of self (FOCUS ON: Continuity and Change)
• A2 Inquiry: Roles, Responsibilities, and Identity: Use the social studies inquiry process to investigate some aspects of the interrelationship between their identity/sense of self, their different roles, relationships, and responsibilities, and various situations in their daily lives (FOCUS ON: Interrelationships)
• A3 Understanding Context: Roles, Relationships, and Respect: Demonstrate an understanding that they and other people experience a range of different roles, relationships, and responsibilities, and that all people and the environment should be treated with respect (FOCUS ON: Significance)

11 units, including my roles & responsibilities, changes in my life, my community, respect & inclusion.

Big Ideas

• In immersion, French is the language we learn in, so listening and speaking grow every day.
• Reading French texts of many kinds builds comprehension and the habit of reading for meaning.
• Writing in French for a purpose and an audience uses the conventions of the language.

7 units, including je me présente, majuscule et point, est-ce que…?, les verbes d'action.