INTEGRATED CORE CURRICULUM

Each preschool level focuses on a Christian core theme with lessons and activities cutting across subject matters - Math, Reading, Science, Social Studies, Music and Movement, Art, Values Education, and Filipino – unifying them in a meaningful and holistic way.

 MULTIPLE INTELLIGENCES

Developed by Dr. Howard Gardner, a professor of education at Harvard University, the theory of Multiple Intelligences suggests that the traditional notion of intelligence, based on IQ testing, was limiting and limited.  In turn, he proposed a broader range of intelligences to account for strengths and potentials of both adults and children.  These intelligences are logico-math (number smart), verbal-linguistic (word/reasoning smart), bodily-kinesthetic (body smart), visual-spatial (picture smart), musical (music smart), interpersonal (people smart), intrapersonal (self smart), naturalistic (nature smart) and existential (Spirit smart).

Each week, Cradle of Joy students immerse themselves in various activities that cover a gamut of multiple intelligences.  In a sense, we teach in 9 different ways! These intelligences are taught in the form of songs, dances, baking, dramatizations, field trips, resource persons, home visits, art, stories, play… You know, children speak!  And do we speak children!

PRESCHOOL PROGRAMS

Toddlers   -   1 year, 10 mos. to 2 yrs., 5 mos.

Junior Nursery -  2 yrs., 6 mos. to 3 yrs., 5 mos.

Senior Nursery -  3 yrs., 6 mos. to 4 yrs., 5 mos.

Kindergarten  - 4 yrs., 6 mos. to 5 yrs., 5 mos.

Prep  -  5 yrs., 6 mos. to 6 yrs., 5 mos.

Where you'll find our PS alumni:  Moving on, if not in our own Grade School, you'll find our alumni in some of the "big schools" like Ateneo, Holy Spirit, La Salle, Miriam, St. Paul, and St. Theresa's, to name a few... and all doing very well, we might add.  They may be wearing a different uniform but they're all COJ children by heart.