Category: Pre-School and Grade School

Growing in Friendship with Jesus

Powerfully proclaims the Catholic faith through the narrative theology approach!

• Offers a compelling catechesis by capitalizing on inspiring stories to teach religious concepts and bring to life the teachings of Christ
• Provides a comprehensive curriculum for Christian Living (CL), covering the essential doctrines and sacraments that are carefully sequenced to correspond with religious celebrations and the pupils’ spiritual milestones, e.g., preparation for the First Communion is taken up in the grade 2 worktext
• Ensures an experiential and interactive approach to CL through engaging advance organizers and activities
• Focuses on the Holy Scripture with each human-interest story and each Catholic precept being supported by biblical passages and principles
• Links school with home through activities that can be done in the pupils’ home and with the whole family
• Teems with questions, exercises, and activities to engage the pupils’ thinking skills and cement their learning
• Encourages reflection and worship through involvement in Eucharistic Celebrations and prayers

Christian Faith Witness puts emphasis on love and life emanating from the Blessed Trinity to the Church, the community of believers. The children of God may discover Jesus in their interaction and teamwork with each other and realize the value of friendship and love of God in life’s journey.

• Complies with the K to 12 standards especially with its learner-centered, multidisciplinary, and developmental approach;
• Pursues enduring learning that is transformative, interactive, holistic, constructivist, and inquiry-based;
• Uses a visually entertaining method;
• Utilizes a spiral progression approach;
• Includes Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and Quick Response (QR) codes for easy access to online references and sources;
• Incorporates DepEd’s curriculum guide for Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao (EsP) in content and performance standards;
• Anchors its content standards and enduring understanding to the 2015 Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines’ (CEAP) Christian Formation Manual (CFM) produced by the National Christian Formation Commission;
• Uses the seven core learning areas of the Catechism of the CatholicChurch (CCC) for its content model as endorsed by the CEAP Religious Education Curriculum for Basic Education, namely: Sacred Scriptures, Doctrine, Sacraments, Community, Service, Prayer, and Spirituality;
• Keeps and enriches the Doctrine-Moral-Worship Catholic method rooted in the Scriptures; and
• Adheres to CEAP’s Philippine Catholic Schools Standards (PCSS), which can assist in defining the characteristics of the Catholic schools—centered on Jesus, committed to integral human formation, animated by the Spirit of communion, engaged in the service of the Church with preferential option for the poor, and promote dialogue on faith, life, and culture.
• Bears the approval of the Catholic Church: Nihil Obstat:
                                             Imprimatur: Rev. Fr. Ronald M. Roberto                Most Rev. Honesto F. Ongtioco, D.D. Minister for Liturgical Affairs              Bishop of Cubao

Character Formation for Nation Building is Sibs Publishing House Inc.’s newest worktext series on Values Education or Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao. This series seeks to mold young people in the essential human values and help build their character toward becoming active contributors of nation building. Designed for learners from The New Grades 1 to 10, the series is based on DepEd’s K-12 Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao Curriculum Guide including additional topics that will further enhance their values formation.

• Since the nature of the subject is teaching values with the goal of making the learners eventually internalize and practice the values, this series follows the process of going through the five macro skills: pag-unawa (understanding), pagninilay (reflecting), pagsangguni (consulting), pagpapasya (decision making), and pagkilos (performing/acting).
• The lessons in the series effectively use these five macro skills to enable the learners to eventually develop desirable attitudes and habits, for them to grow in their capacity and personal commitment to do their best, to do what is the good, and to lead a more meaningful and integrated human experience.
• As our young Filipino learners go through the lessons in the series, they will hopefully learn:
• pagpapakatao at pagiging kasapi ng pamilya (becoming human and family responsibility);
• pakikipagkapwa (treating others as fellow human beings);
• pagmamahal sa bansa at pakikibahagi sa pandaigdigang pagkakaisa (love of country and global solidarity); and
• pagkamaka-Diyos at preperensya sa kabutihan (love for God and preference for the good).
• The series envisions young persons who are committed to self-fulfillment, family-centered, disciplined and self-reliant, socially mature and emotionally stable, nationalistic and responsible citizens, and God-loving and deeply rooted in their faith in God.
• Character Formation for Nation Building series supports the national education goal—to provide a well-rounded education that will assist each individual in his or her society and help the individual attain his or her potential as a human being, and to enhance the range and quality of the individuals within the group.

Promotes pupils’ character development and establishes their value system!

• Primarily aims at building pupils good character, teaching them to judge and do what is right
• Emphasizes operative values or values in action, aiming to transform values into virtues and virtues into character through numerous activities
• Follows an integrated format in character development which is a fusion of three interrelated parts—moral knowing, moral feeling, and moral behavior—involving habits of the mind, heart, and action
• Develops among pupils universal values such as cleanliness, kindness, patience, love for the family, care for other people, and courtesy and respect
• Promotes nationalism/patriotism and anchors lessons on treasured Filipino traditions and customs
• Includes lessons on strengthening faith in and love for God
• Provides pupils with opportunities to validate their own value system as they interact with their classmates and express their opinions, views, and reactions to certain situations

COMPONENTS

• Worktext features exciting sections patterned after an effective teaching flow for good manners and right conduct.
• Teachers Guide features creative teaching strategies in GMRC that are interesting, enhancing, and fulfilling. It includes the text of the listening stories in the worktext. It showcases the following components: objectives, subject matter, materials needed, teaching notes, procedure (i.e., motivation, lesson proper, practice, application, and conclusion), materials/activities for reinforcement and enrichment, and answer key. It features a special section called Word to the Teacher which offers teaching tips, reminders, and strategies.

Promotes pupils’ character development and establishes their value system!

• Worktext. Various features are provided to develop and enhance pupil’s mathematical skills in every level. Every lesson in the series contains the following:
• Lesson Target—A clear statement of what the pupils are expected to achieve at the end of the lesson
• Did You Know That—Bits of information on a wide range of topics that may be used as springboard in the development of the lesson and provides integration of the lesson with other subject areas
• Think and Share—A comprehensive discussion of the concepts and skills complete with illustrative examples
• Math Ideas—A summary of the key concepts discussed in the lesson
• Guided Practice—Drill exercises meant to be solved by the pupils with the teacher’s assistance and designed to reinforce the concepts discussed and to prepare the pupils to work independently
• Think and Answer—Drill exercises and problems that must be done by the pupils with little or no assistance and designed to enrich the learnings from the previous sections
• Think Ahead—Challenging problems or enjoyable activities designed to develop pupil’s higher order thinking skills

• Math Buddies is a worktext series made to serve as an excellent companion of our 21st century learners as they journey through grade school mathematics. This worktext series aims to make learning math exciting, enjoyable, and meaningful to ALL learners through its LEARN stride (Look, Explore, Apply, Reinforce, Nurture).The lessons in this series are presented in a conversational manner, making math reachable and more understandable to all pupils. It also features various activities addressing students’ diverse interests and abilities, at the same time helping them achieve mastery of the required competencies for each level.
• Math Buddies worktext series is from Grade 1 to Grade 6. It also has complete learning guide with answer key, curriculum map, and teacher’s resource CD for each level.

• Totally based (100%) on the K to 12 DepEd math curriculum guide
• Components of the best-selling and award-winning Realistic Math grade school series (1st to 3rd editions)
• Twin goals of the teaching of mathematics in the basic education levels, namely, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, as addressed by the series
• Development of the following specific skills and processes in the learners:
• Knowing and Understanding
• Estimating, Computing, and Solving
• Visualizing and Modeling
• Representing and Communicating
• Making Conjectures, Reasoning, Proving, and Decision-making
• Applying and Connecting
• Numbers and Number Sense, Measurement, Geometry, Patterns and Algebra, and Statistics and Probability, as areas of mathematical learning presented in the series
• Development of the following values and attitudes: Accuracy, Creativity, Perseverance, and Productivity
• Conformity with the following learning principles and theories: Experiential Learning, Cooperative Learning, Learner-centeredness, and Self/Guided Discovery, among others

Science for Active Learning is engaged learning by allowing students to perform authentic, interactive, collaborative, inquiry-based, and strategic activities.

SAL addresses the challenges of the K to 12 science curriculum. It highlights the development of science skills to prepare students for life as citizens of a global community driven by Science and Technology (Science for Citizenship). It equips students with knowledge, skills, and habits of mind to help them acquire, evaluate, and use information to understand nature, solve problems, and make informed decisions.

• Focused and integrated gradual development of science process skills from grade 1 to grade 6
• Varied strategies to assess learning (formative and summative) highlighting science skills
• Authentic, collaborative, and inquiry-based learning experiences such as Design and Technology, Investigatory Study, and Project-based Learning, among others.
• Metacognitive questions to assess own learning
• Making connections to entrepreneurship, environment, culture, technology, society, among others

• The Filipino Odyssey is an interactive and integrative textbook series for Social Studies in grade school that will guide the students as they discover their Filipino identity.
• The series aims to respond to the Learning Area Standards prescribed by the Department of Education’s K to 12 Curriculum for Social Studies. Students are expected to show understanding of concepts about people, groups, communities, and societies—how they lived and have been living, how they relate to one another, how they interact with their surroundings, and what their culture and beliefs are—They will learn how people form an identity as Filipinos, as persons, as citizens of our country, and as citizens of the world; understand society with the use of research skills, analytical skills, and informed decision-making skills creativity, critical thinking skills, social skills, human resource skills, and communication skills.
• The themes, activities, and exercises in this series are appropriate for the students’ age, abilities, and interests make learning meaningful, relevant, timely, enjoyable, and engaging to the students, and help them develop critical and analytical thinking. Relationships between the lessons and the different subject areas, especially Arts, Music, Physical Education, and others, are explored to make learning more meaningful and relevant. The series responds to changes and also contains relevant information and timely data and statistics.

COMPONENTS

• Worktext facilitates an experiential, interactive, interdisciplinary, and values-laden civics and culture program that develops pupils into responsible, active, and productive citizens. Encourages reflective thinking and critical understanding through a journal- writing activity at the end of every lesson and thought-provoking questions in the Unit Reflections section featured in each unit.
• Teachers Guide offers a variety of teaching and learning strategies that encourage pupils’ active participation in learning, e.g., singing, dancing, role-playing, group discussion, case study, public forum, and interview.

• Offers an up-to-date and comprehensive study of civics and culture, history, and geography
• Deepens pupils’ knowledge and consciousness of their historical roots, identity as a people, rich culture, and geography
• Acquaints pupils with their rights and duties as well as responsibilities as Filipinos
• Exhibits sensitivity in dealing with the Muslim culture and indigenous peoples, gender relationships, and history from a Filipino perspective
• Touches on peace, environmental, and human rights education
• Promotes the values of environmental protection, justice, compassion, and hope while linking well-being with civics and culture
• Values the sacrifices of the Filipino ancestors and draws inspirations from the Filipino heroes’ struggles for freedom, justice, and independence
• Includes engaging stories that magnify the human-interest side of history
• Discusses the different issues, ideas, and problems faced by the Philippine society