Nova Scotia · Grades K–5
Children in Nova Scotia learn under the Nova Scotia curriculum, built on the Atlantic Canada framework, set by the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. Daily Academy is skills-based rather than built to that document — it is not an approved NS 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. Nova Scotia sets its own through the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, under the Nova Scotia curriculum, built on the Atlantic Canada framework.
Curriculum details checked 2026-08-24. Provinces revise their documents on their own schedules — the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development 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 Nova Scotia 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 Nova Scotia expects in kindergarten to grade 5 for math and reading, but it is not an approved resource of the Nova Scotia Department of Education and Early Childhood Development 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.