British Columbia · Grades K–5
Children in British Columbia learn under BC’s curriculum, built on Big Ideas, Curricular Competencies and Content, set by the BC Ministry of Education and Child Care. Daily Academy is skills-based rather than built to that document — it is not an approved BC resource — but its 77 tracked skills cover what kindergarten to grade 5 are expected to know, and it reports on each of them separately.
Education in Canada is a provincial responsibility, so there is no national curriculum. British Columbia sets its own through the BC Ministry of Education and Child Care, under BC’s curriculum, built on Big Ideas, Curricular Competencies and Content.
BC’s curriculum is written as competencies rather than as a list of outcomes, so grade 2 and 3 progress reports describe what a child can do rather than what they scored. That makes an outside skill-by-skill reading unusually useful — it is the detail the proficiency scale deliberately leaves out.
Grades 4 and 7 · province-wide assessment
BC’s province-wide assessment of literacy and numeracy is written in grades 4 and 7, not in grade 2 or 3. The practical consequence for a primary parent is that the first external reading of how your child is doing arrives after two years in which you have only had proficiency-scale report cards.
Curriculum details checked 2026-08-24. Provinces revise their documents on their own schedules — the BC Ministry of Education and Child Care publishes the current version, and it is the authority, not this page.
| It does | It does not |
|---|---|
| Practise 26 skills separately and report on each | Follow the British Columbia curriculum document |
| Place your child on a continuous difficulty scale in five minutes | Replace a teacher, a tutor, or a school assessment |
| Tell you in plain sentences what changed and what to do next | Diagnose a learning difficulty |
| End the session after about twenty minutes | Cover any grade outside kindergarten to grade 5 — yet |
If your child has a diagnosed learning difficulty, or is well behind and not catching up, the right next step is the school or a tutor rather than any app — this page sets out how to tell which situation you are in.
Four subjects, 32 math skills tracked separately, and a five-minute intake that places your child rather than assuming their year group.
No — and no honest program should claim to be without provincial approval. Daily Academy is skills-based: it tracks 77 skills that cover what British Columbia expects in kindergarten to grade 5 for math and reading, but it is not an approved resource of the BC Ministry of Education and Child Care and is not built to that curriculum document. Use it as practice alongside school, not as a replacement for it.
Private one-to-one tutoring in Canada generally runs about $40–$80 an hour and learning centres about $150–$300 a month per child. Daily Academy's daily mission is free; the parent dashboard is $8.99 a month in Canadian dollars for every child in the home, with a 14-day trial before any card is needed.
That is what it is for. The daily mission is about twenty minutes and ends by itself, which is designed to sit after school without displacing homework, activities or going outside. Missing a day costs nothing but a streak.
The daily mission is free and stays free. The parent dashboard is $8.99 a month in Canadian dollars for every child in the home, after a 14-day trial.