COJ Catholic Progressive School

We've prepared a series of activities to celebrate the school's coming of age. This year, the COJ community will celebrate by sharing our blessings. The Preshool started  with a meaningful outreach with the children cared for by the Sisters Handmaids of Charity last February 13 while the Grade School will have theirs with the lolos and lolas of Kanlungan ni Maria on February 20. Let them know that God loves them and that they have not been forgotten. We will also have our Family Recollection on February 27, where students and parents have their sessions separately. This has become the springboard for Pathways COJ to invite participants to the Choices seminar and prayer meetings, with an increasing number of families joining each year. From Feb 15 - 19, we'll have the School Spirit Week. The COJ community will play a little dress up. February 15 (Monday) - FEARLESS FORECAST MONDAY Come in what you think you'd be 18 years from now. That's 2033!...

Want to help your kids become readers? When they’re little, give them board books and read aloud to them. When they’re bigger, get them library cards, and leave books in every room. If your kid becomes an enthusiastic reader, start a parent-child book club, and seek out author events at community bookstores. Even if your kids aren’t natural bookworms, let them see you reading newspapers, magazines, and books. Give books as gifts too, whether to newborn babies, college grads, or friends turning fifty. If children see that you value books, sooner or later, they may just acquire a taste for reading that will serve them well all their lives. Do     read with your children get them a library card leave books and magazines around keep a reading record or journal or start a book club set designated reading times and let kids see you read Don't     criticize their reading choices tell them a book is just for girls or just for boys make it too easy...

Teaching persistence in the classroom is an important part of setting up learners to succeed. Students who have mastered persistence are able to work through challenges, deal constructively with failures and adversity, and achieve the goals they have set for themselves. It’s a lot like running a marathon. The runners who make it to the finish line are the ones who persist in showing up for practices and trainings, learn to anticipate slumps and pace themselves, engage in positive self-talk during tough times, take steps to effectively prevent and treat injuries, and adjust expectations to fit reality – even if “finishing” means having to crawl the last mile. Like a runner who has not trained to run longer distances, learners can’t persist in their learning if they haven’t developed the stamina they need to keep going when things get tough. Teaching persistence depends on first developing student stamina as a way of conditioning learners to handle sustained effort. To help learn...