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 Ontario schools actually teach it — unit by unit, in order — so you can see what your child is working on right now, and what's coming next.
Ontario 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.
Reading, representing, comparing and ordering whole numbers to 50; counting strategies.
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.
Adding and subtracting within 20 using concrete strategies and math facts.
Equal groups, sharing, and repeated addition as early multiplication and division.
Equal parts and simple fractions — identify, name and represent halves and fourths only; no comparing, equivalence, or other denominators.
Identifying, extending and creating repeating patterns; the meaning of equality.
2D shapes and 3D objects and their attributes; location and movement.
Comparing length, mass and capacity; time; simple graphs; Canadian coins.
Ella has 8 stickers. She gets 5 more. How many stickers does she have now?
The basic needs and characteristics of living things, including humans.
How energy affects their lives, and that the Sun is the principal source of energy for Earth.
Objects, including structures, have observable characteristics and are made from materials with specific properties that determine how they are used.
Daily and seasonal changes and how living things respond to those changes.
Is a rock a living thing? How do you know?
How our roles, relationships, and responsibilities differ across the groups and places we belong to.
The local community: its distinct features, places, and people, and how we connect to them.
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 2020 Ontario math curriculum 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.