Our program is based on a balanced literacy instruction, which includes the following components:

Phonics Phonemic awareness Word study Reading and Writing Aloud Shared Reading and Writing

Interactive Reading and Writing Guided Reading and Writing Independent Reading and Writing Oral Language Development

Our Mathematics program is based on TERC’s, Investigations in Number, Data and Space. The program focuses on teaching the students to think mathematically, developing number sense, visualizing and describing geometric relationships, and collecting and analyzing real data. The children learn how to explore mathematical problems in depth, using concrete materials and expressing their mathematical thinking through drawing, talking, and writing. The program is complemented with various other sources to develop mental math, basic operations, and skills.

Philosophy

In accordance to CMSFQ’s school mission, we view our students as holistic learners through a constructivist and conceptual pedagogy . Our students become the protagonists of their own learning and the teacher is there to facilitate learning. Learning becomes significant to them because it relates to their own interest and needs thus, leading our students to be life-long learners.

Program

1st and 2nd grade children will be lead towards the magic of literacy immersing them in Ecuadorian literature as well as foreign authors.

We develop oral language and written skills through early social studies classes; first, by discovering themselves, then their family, their homes, school and lastly their neighborhood.

We also work with investigation projects where students’ curiosity and opportunities for inquiry are developed.

All of this is done with moral values and experiences which make our living in community easier.

 

Our Science program is based on Harcourt Brace Science, which presents appropriate themes according to the development stage of the children. We cover the four main branches of science, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and Earth science together with studies about space.

The Science program's main objective is to encourage curiosity and enthusiasm, which then the children will satisfy predicting, inferring, drawing conclusions and using the scientific method. Moreover, the program places a heavy emphasis on hands on activities as every unit has corresponding experiments and/or activities to tie theory with practice.