Grade 1 is where school routines begin for real: counting with confidence, first reading habits, and learning how to be a learner. Here is the year as Alberta schools teach it under the new curriculum — unit by unit, in order — so you can see what your child is working on right now, and what's coming next.
Alberta math runs as a sequence: each unit builds on the one before it. The week ranges below follow the school year from September; teachers vary pacing.
Counting, reading, representing and comparing quantities to 100; skip counting by 2s, 5s and 10s.
Worth watching: counting on from a number ("start at 8, count up 5") instead of restarting from 1 — that small habit is the year's biggest lever.
Examining addition and subtraction within 20 using counting strategies, part-part-whole thinking and simple story problems.
Interpreting shape in two and three dimensions; sorting and describing familiar shapes and objects by their attributes.
Relating length to size; directly comparing and ordering objects by length, height and width using informal language.
Examining repeating patterns and patterns in daily cycles; identifying, extending and creating simple patterns.
Explaining time in relation to cycles — days of the week, seasons, first/next/last ordering of daily events; no clock reading yet.
Examining one-half as one of two equal parts of a whole; collecting and representing simple data with concrete graphs and pictographs.
Ella has 8 stickers. She gets 5 more. How many stickers does she have now?
Investigating and examining what plants and animals need to live and grow — food, water, air, space and shelter.
Analyzing properties of objects using the five senses and investigating how properties can be changed by actions like bending, stretching and mixing.
Investigating direction, pathway and speed of moving objects, humans and other animals.
Analyzing local environments and investigating the interactions and changes that happen within them across seasons.
Engaging in and describing simple investigations; following step-by-step instructions and relating them to outcomes.
Is a rock a living thing? How do you know?
Examining major physical features and key landmarks of our world — continents, oceans, mountains and famous places.
Exploring the cultures of diverse communities in Canada and the world — languages, foods, celebrations and traditions, including First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities.
Examining the exchange of goods and services — what people make, grow, sell and do for one another in a community.
Investigating roles and responsibilities in community groups and organizations — helpers, leaders and members.
Examining how belonging is supported within groups and communities — kindness, cooperation and making everyone welcome.
Unlike math and science, the language curriculum isn't taught as a sequence of units — it's a set of skills that deepen all year: reading comprehension and inference, writing structure and conventions, vocabulary, and oral communication. French works the same way. Homework Hub practises these as grade-matched weekly skills — a reading passage with real comprehension questions, a sentence to fix, a short prompt to write to — rather than pretending there's a unit list.
Homework Hub generates fresh questions matched to these very units — in season, at your child's level, marked with hints that teach. You set the days; it does the rest.
Start your free trial →This page is generated from the same curriculum map that powers Homework Hub's practice questions (the new Alberta curriculum (program of studies) and current science and social studies expectations, described in our own words). School boards and teachers vary pacing — week ranges are a typical rhythm, not a rule.