Grade 4

The Arts
Music

Visual Arts

Dance and Drama

Read standard notation

Apply their understanding of music
Create and perform music

Create 2D and 3D works of art that

express feelings and ideas
Use the principles and elements of
design to create art
Interpret a variety of art works and
identify different meanings that they
convey
Use the elements of dance to
communicate feelings and ideas
Identify the elements of dance in
their own movements
Use dance as a language to
communicate ideas from a variety of
stories
Apply the creative process to drama
in role playing to communicate
feelings

Grade 5

Grade 6

Read simple musical notation

Communicate their response to music
Create and perform a piece of music
Apply elements of music to different
genre

Create 2D and 3D works of art that

express feelings and ideas
Use the principles and elements of
design as well as their own
experiences and skills to create art
Use critical processes to interpret
meaning and determine value of art
Use the elements of dance to
compose short pieces to
communicate feelings and ideas
Identify the elements of dance in
their own and others' dance pieces
and explain how they help
communicate a message
Use dance as a language to interpret,
and communicate ideas from a
variety literature sources
Apply the creative process to drama
using the elements of drama to
develop a character's story,
communicate feelings and ideas in
drama works

Read and perform from musical

notation
Apply elements of music to different
genre
Create their own pieces of music
Apply their understanding of music and
play with proper techniques
Create 2D and 3D works of art using a
variety of techniques to express
feelings and ideas
Use the principles and elements of
design as well as their own
experiences and skills to create art
Use critical processes to assess quality
art work and explain their
interpretation of art works
Use the elements of dance and apply
creative process to compose short
pieces to communicate feelings and
ideas
Identify the elements of dance in
their own and others' dance pieces
explain how they help communicate
a message
Use dance as a language to explore
interpret and communicate
meanings from a variety of
literature sources

Health and
Physical Education

Language

Mathematics

Create a routine with classmates

using learned motor skills and
movement concepts
Participate in activities related to the
components of physical fitness with
proper body alignment

Identify key fitness and nutrition

principles

Use the writing process to write for

an intended audience and purpose
listen, understand and respond using
various strategies
Read and understand a variety of
texts gathered from diverse cultures
including graphic and informational
texts
Interpret and create media texts
Speak appropriately for an intended
audience

Understand and use the writing

process to write for an intended
audience and purpose
listen, understand and respond using
various strategies
Read and understand a variety of
informational, graphic and literary
texts from diverse cultures to draw
conclusion
Interpret and create media texts
Speak appropriately for an intended
audience

Use simple fractions and decimals,

understanding of multiplicative
relationships, including simple unit
rates.
Relationships between units of

Use simple fractions and decimals,

understanding of multiplicative
relationships, including simple unit
rates
Find area, perimeter and convert

Identify critical elements of motor

skills and combine a variety of
motor skills into a routine
Participate in activities related to the
components of physical fitness
Identify basic nutrition principles

Apply the creative process to drama

and the development of drama works,
using the elements and conventions of
drama to develop characters story,
communicate feelings, identify themes
and ideas in drama works
Design and perform a routine using
learned motor skills and movement
concepts that demonstrates sports
specific skills
Participate in activities related to the
components of physical fitness with
proper body alignment
Identify key fitness and nutrition
principles
Understand and use the writing
process to write for an intended
audience and purpose
listen, understand and respond using
various strategies
Read and understand a variety of
complex resources from diverse
cultures to draw conclusion and bring
their own cultural experience and
background to the interpretation of text
Interpret and create media texts
Speak appropriately for an intended
audience
Represent, using fractions, decimals,
percent and multiplicative
relationships, including rates and ratios
Find area, perimeter and convert
between units

Science and
Technology

Social Studies

measurement
Collect and organize data
Identify 2D and 3D figures and
classify them by their geometric
properties
Algebraic addition and subtraction

Properties of light, sound energy and

their impact on the environment
Plants and animals are
interdependent and are adapted to
meet their needs from the resources
available in their particular habitats
Society relies on plants and animals
The properties of rocks and minerals
help determine societys best uses
for them

Social, political and economic shift

overtime
European expansion into North
America was as a result of a
variety of factors
Cultures change as they integrate
into larger society

between units
Collect, organize and represent data in
Collect and organize data and
charts, tables, and graphs
represent in charts, tables, and
Classify and construct polygons and
graphs
angles
Identify and classify 2D shapes by
Use variables in simple algebraic
side and angle properties, and
expressions and equations
compare and sort 3D figures
Use of variables in equations
A substance can be changed from
Energy can be transformed from one
one form to another
form to another and its production has
an impact on the environment
Organ systems are components the
body that work together to meet our Biodiversity encompass a variety of
basic needs
life found on earth and the ecosystems
Organ structures are linked to their
The choices humans make can have an
functions and the choices we make
impact on biodiversity
can affect our health
Earth is a part of a large interrelated
The properties of materials
system and technological and scientific
determine their use and may have an
advances enable humans to study
effect on society and the
space
environment.
Immigration and demographic
Cultural practices, institutions and
changes can shift cultural identities
traditions still have an impact on
within a society
Canadian society
Natural resources have helped shape As cultures emerged, new system of
the economy of different Canadian
power, authority and government
region
developed
Colonization continue to affect
Urbanization cause specialization, and
contemporary society and cultures
technological developments