A second language is required in Grades 5 to 8. Most schools teach Core French; districts may offer another language from the B.C. Languages curriculum instead.
Below is how the official curriculum organizes it. Each strand will get full lessons like the ones in Grade 1 Mathematics.
Letter patterns and sounds; describing people and things; hobbies and interests; giving reasons for preferences; emotions and physical states
Francophone communities in Canada; a Canadian Francophone festival; cultural aspects of communities