Learning areas
The five Alberta Grade 4 subjects covered here, written for whoever is helping. Each page gives the expectations, the vocabulary behind them, and things to try at home.
English language arts and literature
Reading and writing
Reading aloud so it shows you understood, strategies for harder texts, writing to inform, using sources honestly, and saying it in fewer words.
Open reading and writing
Mathematics
Numbers to 10 000
Column arithmetic to 10 000 with decimals, the first written multiplication and division, sorting shapes by their measurements, area, and graphs.
Open numbers to 10 000
Science
Looking closely
Forces that act without touching, where waste goes, Earth's four connected systems, how animals' bodies fit their lives, the sky in daily life, design, and evidence.
Open looking closely
Social studies
Colonial Canada
How Canada came to be: First Nations and the fur trade, New France, the British, the Loyalists, the rebellions, and Confederation â and what citizens owe and are owed.
Open colonial canada
Physical education and wellness
Moving and feeling good
Building each part of fitness, combining movements, the right to a bully-free school, puberty, credible food information, consent, and spending decisions.
Open moving and feeling good
The sixth subject
Alberta also teaches fine arts in Grade 4 â art and music, with drama and dance in some schools. It is not covered here yet.
The expectations above are paraphrased from Alberta Education's New Kâ6 curriculum fact sheets, which publish a snapshot of each grade rather than the complete program of studies. Alberta's full programs are at alberta.ca/curriculum.