Life Skills

Personal qualities and skills known as Life Skills are woven into elementary students' daily experience and inform every aspect of the elementary program. They include:

       • Integrity: honesty, sincerity, soundness of
          moral principle
       • Common Sense: using good judgment
       • Courage: learning to overcome fear when 
          faced with challenges
       • Patience: being able to wait calmly
       • Curiosity: wanting to learn more
       • Sense of Humor: laughing and playing 
         without harming others
       • Responsibility: taking initiative, being 
         accountable
       • Flexibility: being able to adapt
       • Effort: doing one's personal best
       • Problem-solving: creating solutions for 
         challenging situations
       • Perseverance: to continue despite obstacles
       • Organizing: planning, arranging, 
         implementing
       • Interpersonal Skills: respect, caring for 
         others, good manners, cooperating, making 
         friends points of view
       • Initiative: ability to originate or follow 
         through with a task