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 BC 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.
British Columbia 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.
Counting on and back, skip-counting by 2 and 5, sequencing, comparing and ordering numbers to 20, base ten and 10-and-some-more, subitizing, and ways to make 10.
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 numbers to 20 by decomposing, counting on, making 10, and using doubles, with concrete, pictorial, and symbolic models.
Demonstrating equality and inequality using = and ≠, change in quantity to 20, and repeating patterns with multiple elements and attributes.
Sorting and comparing 2D shapes and 3D objects by a single attribute, using positional language, and replicating composite shapes.
Direct measurement with non-standard units, concrete graphs using one-to-one correspondence, and the likelihood of familiar life events using comparative language.
Identifying the values of coins (nickels, dimes, quarters, loonies, toonies), counting multiples of one denomination, and simple monetary exchanges.
Ella has 8 stickers. She gets 5 more. How many stickers does she have now?
Classify living and non-living things, name local plants and animals, and describe the structural features and behavioural adaptations that help them survive.
The properties of familiar materials, including that solids keep their shape while liquids and gases flow, and how specific properties let us use materials in different ways.
Natural and artificial sources of light and sound, and how properties such as brightness, colour, pitch, and volume depend on the source and the objects they interact with.
Common objects in the sky such as the sun, moon, and stars, and the local weather and seasonal patterns that repeat on Earth and in the sky.
Is a rock a living thing? How do you know?
The parts of a local community that keep it organized and meet people's needs — local government, emergency services, policing, transportation, public utilities, stores, parks, and financial services.
The diverse cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives within the local and other communities, including different languages, customs, art, music, traditions, holidays, food, and clothing.
The relationship between a community and its environment and the natural and human-made features of the local area — resources, parks, waterways, mountains, buildings, bridges, and dams — describing any map or place fully in words.
The roles, rights, and responsibilities people have in the local community, including individual rights versus the public interest and responsibilities to other people and the environment.
Key events and developments in the local community and in local First Peoples communities, such as community milestones, celebrations, cultural events, and the growth or decline of a community.
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 (BC's 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.