Inquiring, creating, and interacting to live in community

 

At Elementary Benedictine Education, which serves students from 2nd to 5th grade, our mission is to help young learners develop essential life skills and effectively connect their education to the challenges of the 21st century. We engage them through projects that reflect their personal interests, optimizing both physical and digital resources to create an environment that nurtures a passion for learning. Our approach emphasizes collaboration, curiosity, creativity, spirituality, and the overall well-being of both individuals and the community.

English & Literature

English & Literature
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% of this curriculum is given in English

Our pillars in this educational stage are:

inquiry

Inquiry

creation

Creation

Innovation

Innovation

At Elementary Benedictine Education, our students:

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Live an educated life to learn how to find happiness through spirituality.
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Delve into their artistic sensibilities while honing their motor and athletic skills.
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Foster a deeper awareness of social issues around the world.
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Explore sustainable options to enhance living conditions.
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Acknowledge the diverse methods of expressing and comprehending various languages, including English, Spanish, and programming languages.

The curriculum includes the following key learning areas:

They embark on a journey of self-discovery as artists within a dynamic and interconnected creative landscape. This experience allows them to deepen their understanding and enhance their aesthetic sensibility across various fields, including music, visual arts, painting, and movement.Furthermore, they cultivate essential skills for interpreting and expressing creative ideas, enabling them to effectively communicate their academic projects through artistic means.

They develop and enhance their communication skills while simultaneously building their ability to create meaning and significance through literature as a medium for imagination and creativity.They cultivate a critical mindset for selecting, filtering, and organizing information, resulting in written and oral works that are age-appropriate. Through this process, they write, read, create, and reimagine.

Our goal is to help students achieve a balance in their emotional, spiritual, and social development, enabling them to build healthy and assertive relationships that support their continuous growth as individuals. By focusing on emotion management, decision-making, and creativity, we encourage them to reflect on the personal, familial, social, and cultural influences that shape their identities. We also empower them to come up with proposals that can contribute to the development of their communities.

Children develop a wide range of physical skills that align with their growth stages through active movement. They achieve this through engaging in play, gymnastics, dance, and various sports. In addition, participating in team activities boosts their confidence while enhancing their ability to move with fluency and control, as they refine both their motor skills and sports techniques.

Students gain a solid understanding of computational logic and engage with the language of coding and programming to become familiar with the foundational concepts of computer science (CS). Additionally, by creating digital solutions, they are encouraged to express their creativity and take initiative as active participants in the digital revolution of the 4.0 era.

They tackle problem situations by applying mathematical reasoning and utilizing hands-on materials, which engage the senses in the learning process.Additionally, they explore numerical relationships within various contexts to develop solutions to the challenges they encounter. This approach fosters decision-making skills, as they use their findings to express their results in mathematical terms.

They explore the reality of their surroundings, including nature and biodiversity, to better understand the traits of our world and the ecosystems that shape it. Additionally, they envision alternatives to maintain environmental balance and revive resources that have been depleted due to the planet’s degradation.This process involves research, experimentation, and designing potential solutions to foster restoration.

Delve into and reflect on global and intercultural issues to promote ideas that support human and social development. This exploration expands one’s worldview, enables comparisons between local and global challenges, and fosters an understanding of diverse cultures, along with recognizing the historical events that have shaped our progress.By identifying issues concerning human rights, respect for diversity, and human dignity, individuals can propose solutions that enhance the overall quality of life.

Students gain the skills they need to confidently manage a second language and communicate effectively. They develop essential abilities to tackle challenges posed by various forms of information media, literary texts, and audiovisual content. This course follows the Cambridge Curriculum ESL program designed for international schools.

We explore different literary genres while engaging with reading and production in all four fundamental language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

If you want to know more of our proposal, write to us!