Also, five teachers provide supplemental reading services through programs such as Reading Recovery, Title I Reading and Guided Reading. A variety of learning styles are met through phonics instruction, sight-word vocabulary, and spelling. The Mason Heights mathematics curriculum is a developmentally appropriate program based on a manipulative hands-on approach to learning with an emphasis on problem solving. The mathematical program encourages cooperative learning, risk taking and critical thinking. Students explore patterns, problem solving strategies, numbers and relations, geometry, algebra, measurement, estimation and mental computation and data analysis.
Science is taught through hands-on experiences integrated through a thematic approach.
For example, in studying inventions and inventors, students explore the components of toys and tools by designing, conducting, and repeating explorations of simple machines. The students then create an original toy or game employing a simple machine. Students also explore matter, weather, animals, air and water pressure, plant growth, light and simple machines. Mason Heights Elementary has the distinction of being the first elementary school in Ohio to incorporate a science lab into the school curriculum and now has two science labs. Students attend weekly sessions with the science teachers to supplement classroom instruction correlating with thematic teaching.