What your child learns in Grade 5 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

11 units, including big numbers, multiply, divide & ratios, fractions, decimals & percents.

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

10 units, including greek and latin roots, context clues, grammar gears, sentence builders.

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

12 units, including healthy choices, digestion & breathing, heart, bones & muscles, body teamwork.

Big Ideas

• A1 Application: The Impact of Interactions: Analyse some key short- and long-term consequences of interactions among Indigenous peoples, among Europeans, and between Indigenous and European people prior to 1713 in what would eventually become Canada (FOCUS ON: Cause and Consequence; Continuity and Change)
• A2 Inquiry: Perspectives on Interactions: Use the social studies inquiry process to investigate aspects of the interactions among Indigenous peoples, among Europeans, and between Indigenous and European people prior to 1713 in what would eventually become Canada, from the perspectives of the various groups involved (FOCUS ON: Interrelationships; Perspective)
• A3 Understanding Context: Significant Characteristics and Interactions: Describe significant features of and interactions among Indigenous peoples, among Europeans, and between Indigenous and European people prior to 1713 in what would eventually become Canada (FOCUS ON: Significance; Interrelationships)

12 units, including nations of canada, explorers and settlers, life in new france, the fur trade.

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 qui, que, où, dont, ne… plus, jamais, rien, les adverbes, la ponctuation.

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.

8 units, including salutations, sounds and accents, numbers 0 to 30, masculine, feminine, plural.