What your child learns in Grade 4 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

16 units, including numbers to 10 000, add & subtract, times tables, multiply & divide.

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

9 units, including word builders, grammar gears, sentence builders, punctuation power.

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 and in STEM-related fields
• 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

9 units, including habitats & communities, food chains & webs, adaptations, light.

Big Ideas

• A1 Application: Past and Present Societies: Compare key aspects of life in a few early societies (to 1500), including at least one First Nation and one Inuit society, each from a different region and era and representing a different culture, and describe some key similarities and differences between these early societies and present-day Canadian society
• A2 Inquiry: Ways of Life and Relationships with the Environment: Use the social studies inquiry process to investigate ways of life and relationships with the environment in a few early societies (to 1500), including at least one First Nation and one Inuit society, with an emphasis on aspects of the interrelationship between the environment and life in those societies
• A3 Understanding Context: Characteristics of Early Societies: Demonstrate an understanding of key aspects of a few early societies (to 1500), including at least one First Nation and one Inuit society, each from a different region and era and representing a different culture, with reference to their political and social organization, daily life, and relationships with the environment and with each other

10 units, including early societies, daily life long ago, people & the land, governing & getting along.

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.

9 units, including tu ou vous?, poser des questions, synonymes et contraires, les adverbes en -ment.

Big Ideas

• Listening to French and responding to it builds understanding, one step at a time.
• Speaking and interacting in French uses familiar words and sentence patterns.
• Reading a range of French texts builds comprehension and an eye for how texts are put together.

6 units, including greetings, my classroom, colours, numbers 0 to 20.