Don Bosco Press

This Preschool series is concerned with developing competence in writing. It teaches the basics of handwriting from drawing simple lines to forming letters, numbers, words, and sentences. It also enhances motor coordination through challenging exercises. It further provides opportunities for the development of auditory and visual discrimination and the fostering of reading, speaking, and critical thinking skills. Great eff ort has been exerted in order to make the lessons enjoyable and exciting. The books are replete with enticing colors and attractive graphics. Important values too have been integrated into the writing lessons for the molding of good and functional citizens.

Nilalayon ng aklat na ito na unti-unting mapagaling ang pag-unawa ng bata sa kung paano siya natututo at kung paano niya higit pang mapagagaling ang kanyang pagkatuto sa paggamit ng wikang Pilipino.

Designed for children in Preschool to develop their awareness of the world around them. This series introduces the children to the wonderful world of science and its connection to Gods creation and everyday life.

This Preschool and Grade School art education textbook series aims at defining and at refining the artistic potentials of learners. The activities suggested are meant to make learning in the arts truly fun-filled. Maximum creativity is envisioned since all possible art materials some taken from commonplace objects have been integrated into the lessons. Visual arts are integrated with other disciplines. Each lesson has a finished artwork set as a model for students. An accompanying poem helps to give meaning to the artistic endeavour. The procedures are also described with utmost simplicity so as to make the books truly learner-friendly.

The Happy Writing The Basics of Handwriting series is specially designed to help children to do the right moves and strokes in writing letters and to develop skills in writing words, phrases, and sentences. The given examples are made to be as interesting as can be, thus, drawing the students to be truly engrossed in their writing exercises.

This Grade School Religion series is characterized by the following important and interesting features: A clear presentation of the core truths of the Christian Faith:

• Trinitarian truths
• Christological truths
• Ecclesiological truths
• A Christocentric-Trinitarian approach
• An organic synthesis centered on the Word of God
• A cyclical structure
• An integration of faith and life
• A learner-friendly approach
• A concern for inculturation
• Interpersonal dynamics
• Communitarian concerns
• An interdisciplinary orientation

The methodology follows the very approach adopted by the Lord Jesus in his proclamation of the Reign of God Christ as the Message, the Messenger, and the Method. The paradigm used is the Emmaus Experience of Luke 24. From being a total stranger, Jesus ends up as a Friend and the Risen Lord to the disciples. Thus, each lesson has 4 phases:

• Human Experience
• Deepening/Value Development
• Christian Message
• Faith Response

The Revised Edition of the Grade School Textbook series, Values for Everyday Living, exhibits the following features:

• A methodology that helps the students to recall their experiences, express their feelings, and discover their attitudes.
• Narration of true-to-life stories that allow learners to imbibe values through modeling and vicarious learning.
• Suggestion of learning experiences that would enable learners to feel what is right and just and to foster those values that would gradually and eventually replace undesirable behavioral patterns.
• Insertion of activities aimed at exploring and strengthening multiple intelligences:

English for Global Communication is a series written for Grade School students from Prep to Grade 6. This series focuses on both reading and language functions that intend to make the Filipino learner a competent communicator. It provides varied activities that allow the students to work as a team and at the same time, enjoy quality learning. Furthermore, the learning activities provided in each book are challenging, meaningful, and enriched to enhance the learners' comprehension, sharpen their communication skills oral and written to help them develop their profi ciency in self-expression and interaction with others using the English Language.

The different components in every lesson in each book make the learners think analytically, critically. The activities and exercises centered on the development of the macro skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The stories are selected to provide lessons in life, insights and messages that portrayed positive character development. In the end, it hoped that this series shall lead the learner to become a better student and a better person as a whole.

Draws its inspiration from the Singaporean model, Math for All is an activity-based preparatory and elementary mathematics series designed to address the various needs of different learners and take the Philippine Elementary Learning Curriculum (PELC) a step further. It is guided by the principle that mathematics can be enjoyed and learned by all pupils by tapping into their creativity and multiple intelligences and by developing their critical thinking skills.

The Math for All Series uses the concrete-to-abstract approach in its presentation of mathematical concepts (concrete>pictorial>abstract). It generates action songs, fingerplay, rhymes, art, projects, games, reflections, and outdoor activities in the lessons so as to enhance the learners multiple intelligences. The series emphasizes not only a hands-on approach, like creative problem-solving and refl ecting. Nonroutine questions and investigations are provided to develop the learners higher-order thinking skills. Likewise, enrichment lessons are included for more advanced learners.

This revised edition of Math and Beyond is a comprehensive mathematics program designed in accordance with the goals of the Basic Education Mathematics Curriculum to help the pupils discover and value the important role of the subject in the real world and in their daily lives.