July 24, 2026 · Printable planner
A homeschool year looks very different from a classroom year — without a syllabus handed to you, parents need the big picture. Here is the year-at-a-glance view of math, ELA, science, and social studies across K–8.
Daily planning promises control but creates friction — every Sunday night you re-decide the curriculum. A year-at-a-glance view replaces that with a single visual: what should a typical Grade 4 student be exposed to by December? Once the big picture is in your head — or printed above your desk — daily planning becomes a filling-in exercise, not a fresh decision. The planner below is the print-ready version of that view for K–8 Ontario + Montessori families.
Counting to 20, shapes, patterns
Phonemic awareness, read-aloud, label writing
Observe + describe plants, animals, weather
Self, family, local community
+/− to 20, place value to 100, measurement
Decode + sight words, sentence writing
Needs and lives of plants and animals; seasonal change
Daily life in community, traditional territories
+/− to 100, multiplication intro, money and time
Fluency, paragraph writing, written conventions
Properties of matter (sink/float, hard/soft)
Communities around the world
×/÷ facts, fractions, perimeter
Reading to learn, paragraph essay, grammar
Forces and simple machines, plant growth
Indigenous perspectives, mapping Canada
×/÷ to 10×10, decimals, area, patterning
Multi-paragraph essay, research intro
Habitats and food webs, pulleys and gears
Political geography of provinces and territories
Fraction operations, ratios, volume
Persuasive writing, cross-genre reading
Properties and changes of matter, weather systems
Ancient civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, China
Multiplication and division of fractions and decimals; algebra intro
Argumentative writing supported by evidence
Diversity of life, flight, electricity
Medieval societies and global trade networks
Proportional reasoning, linear relations
Literary analysis, media literacy
Cell biology and body systems
Canadian history, 1713 to present
Linear equations, Pythagoras, financial literacy
Formal research, comparison of texts across eras
Light and optics, fluids, climate and ecosystems
Global geography: Africa, Asia, the Americas
One cell per subject per month — write the unit, chapter, or expectation you'll cover. Sep–Jun follows the Ontario school year.
| Subject | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun |
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The K–8 pipeline. Tick each step when your child has demonstrated mastery.
Both the Ontario and Montessori frameworks follow this same conceptual ladder.