Early Childhood Center (2 to 7 years)
Young children live in wonder and see beauty and purpose in everything around them. They are curious about what is coming to meet them. This innate sense of wonder is what allows them to open up to the world. Children learn first by seeing and then by imitating, so we create situations for them where they can experience life. Free play, singing, games, puppets, crafts, painting, cooking, gardening and walking in the jungle are the natural activities for a child of this age. The strong foundations for acquiring knowledge later on are built through imitative play.
Parent Child
Recognizing the importance of a conscious and respectful accompaniment of our little ones during early childhood, we offer modules lasting one month aimed at parents with children between the ages of 0 months and 12 months.
During these sessions, we create a loving bridge through experiences that encourage exploration, curiosity and free movement, through a short rhythm that cultivates a gradual transition to school life.
Grades
Upon entering the Grades they show their imaginative life, they are ready to learn. They experience and express life through delicate and complex feelings. When developing, logical thinking begins to open, but it must be cultivated with care since the life of the imagination is what must be strengthened in this seven-year period.
First Grade (7 years)
In primary school, the child discovers the wonders of literature, music, weaving, movements, numbers and letters. The reading process goes from image to symbol and from there to words and writing. Shape drawing teaches spatial awareness and balance. Myths and fairy tales are explored through songs and dances, circle games and music. Here mathematics arises formally: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the qualities of numbers and rhythmic counting. Science is discovered through experiences in the natural world. Physical education includes creative movement and games.
Second Grade (8 years)
Este grado es sobre la dualidad, imágenes pictóricas, movimiento rítmico, música, arte, juegos y manualidades. Se cuentan fábulas e historias sobre la naturaleza, junto con leyendas, folclor local e historias de héroes y santos. La lectura y escritura se desarrollan y los cuatro procesos básicos de la aritmética evolucionan hacia la aritmética mental. Las tablas de multiplicar se presentan a través de movimientos rítmicos. Se refina la observación de la naturaleza. Continúa el dibujo de formas, la educación musical y física.
Third Grade (9 years)
They learn stories of Old Testament creation while confronting their human consciousness and growing individuality in the crisis of the 9, through the study of agriculture, construction, and trades. They begin the study of formal grammar and time, weights and measures used as tools to deal with the day to day. The shape drawing continues with reflections and transformations.
Fourth Grade (10 years)
Students learn about human nature and the qualities that each animal has developed on its own. The sciences are studied in a creative and artistic way and responsibility for the animal kingdom is encouraged. Norse, Celtic and Mayan myths are taught and children draw and embroider the intertwined symbols. This year emphasizes reading, writing and grammar. Mathematics becomes more complex and fractions are introduced. In local geography, you start with your school until you cover the Yucatan Peninsula. Crafts are more advanced, just like music, theater, painting, physical education, and gardening.
Fifth Grade (11 years)
The themes of metamorphosis in Greek stories introduce us to botany and the incredibly changing forms of nature. Fifth marks the shift from imaginative thinking to the beginning of civic and historical consciousness. They study about the development of man from ancient India and Greece, stories about Buddha, Krishna, Persia, Egypt and Greece through the Iliad and Odyssey. The study of geometry begins and fractions and decimals are applied to everyday situations. In Geography, the Americas are studied. Writing and spelling continue, as well as music, modeling, painting, drawing, gardening and physical education.
Sixth Grade (12 years)
La física se desarrolla a través de la óptica, acústica y el estudio del calor. El reino mineral se estudia en la clase principal de geografía, además de un examen de un continente y sus culturas. Se introduce la astronomía a través de la observación y se cumplen los principios básicos de la geometría. Los estudios de Historia se basan en el imperio romano: biografías e historias de sus héroes: los caminos, el orden, organización y leyes, así como el dominio del mundo físico, la esclavitud y la avaricia. Se estudia la edad media y el nacimiento del Cristianismo y del Islam. El trabajo continúa en las áreas de canto e instrumentos musicales; incluyéndose en este grado conjuntos, coros y trabajo orquestal. Dibujan en claroscuro.
Seventh Grade (13 years old)
Girls and boys reach a critical period in their development, it is a time to generate a new relationship with the world.
To understand the world around them, chemistry is presented as a new way of experiencing matter from its most basic structure. Along with matter comes energy and with it the study of physics.
Likewise, language is cultivated through interjections, where students can explore the expression of feelings and sensations by evoking them directly through language. In the latter case, individual ways of expression are explored and therefore style exercises are of great help to students.
Eighth Grade (14 years old)
In this age a general picture of the world and the place that humanity occupies in it is completed.
With students going through just the middle of adolescence, they tend to be more robust, both physically and in the judgments that emanate from them.
The critical capacities of young people are notably superior, including the adults around them, and accompanying all this appears a reasoning and reasonable side in the students.
Students find new and unknown perspectives with a sharpened mind, a vibrant and tender heart, and limbs that seek to overcome the weight of gravity.
Cultural events in geography transport students out of their egoism and place them in a point of reflection based on their own values.
Industrial revolutions and the human being as creator of the current social order are studied. And the biographies mark starting points for students to find the ideals that will lead them in the future to be citizens of the world.
Evaluation
The Evaluation of the child and its development is an ongoing process. However, it is formalized through evaluations in December and June. In these individual meetings with the main class teacher, the development of each student is examined in detail. Teachers meet with parents to deeply and jointly discuss each child's progress in different areas. At the end of the school year, parents are given a written assessment.
Assessments at the Early Childhood Center match the holistic development of the child. They include the development of social and emotional, physical, artistic and intellectual well-being. They are distilled from careful observation of the child throughout the year.
Grade assessments continue to consider the child as a complete being. They include the academic areas of language, mathematics, science, arts and physical education, and also the social and emotional development of each student.
Parents are urged to maintain the channel of communication with the teachers open. It is vital to attend pedagogical meetings and meetings with the main teacher. If questions arise at any time during the school year, we ask parents to approach the teacher to discuss their children's development.
Festivals
The Rose Ceremony
The first week of school is a rite of passage for first graders; here begins your journey through formal education. All grades meet together with parents and teachers, and the early childhood is also invited. Each first grader is greeted with a rose by a student in higher grades.
Autumn Equinox
This Mayan festival celebrates the birth of the new sun, represented by the germinating corn kernel.
Michaelmas
We now focus our willpower and face our fears by penetrating the shortest days of the year. The light overcomes the darkness in the form of Michael defeating the dragon.
Day of the Dead
This traditional Mexican celebration highlights the connection between the life of the present and the afterlife. It gives us a space to remember our loved ones who are no longer with us.
San Martín
On this night of November 11, we take a walk in the dark carrying our lanterns. We listen to the story of the generous Martin and sing as we light the way with our lanterns.
Advent Festival
We celebrate the arrival of the spirit of peace and happiness into our hearts. The spiral of lights is the image of the journey we make in the search for our inner light and how we emerge in the illuminated world.
Candlemas
A celebration that we share in community, where we offer gratitude to the stillness that winter brought us and bless the seeds that will bring a radiant and prosperous spring.
Spring Equinox
A Mayan festival where we celebrate the connection of the universe to earthly life.
May Day
On this day we celebrate family, life and the summer that comes. The children dance around the MayPole, together we participate in traditional games and share delicious food.
Saint John
An ancient festival where we seek to strengthen and purify the force of the sun and join the strong impulse of nature. We celebrate the end of the school year with the traditional bonfire of Saint John.
Early Childhood Center Graduation
Early Childhood Center Graduation - The children have gone through their first seven years, facing new challenges every day that helped them strengthen their bodies, use their hands and nourish their hearts with healthy images that invite creativity.
During this time, the children have lived in an environment that encourages development through play and meaningful experiences. But now it is time to leave this beautiful little house that shelters us and face a new challenge: starting first grade.
Accompanied by families and friends, we tell the little ones a story about the path they themselves have traversed and at the end they cross a rainbow bridge towards their new path, where their teacher receives them with love to continue accompanying them.
Graduación de Grados
An ancient festival where we seek to strengthen and purify the force of the sun and join the strong impulse of nature. We celebrate the end of the school year with the traditional bonfire of Saint John.
