Our
Christian Foundations
Blueprints ensures that the faith of our early learners
is nurtured as they discover themselves in the traces of the
goodness and beauty of God. Children are made in God's image,
and God's design can be found in the developmental profile
of the young child. The Sudbury Catholic District School Board
realizes that childhood is a time to be valued and celebrated.
Social/Emotional Development
In order to learn effectively, children must feel good about
themselves, about school, and about others. A prime goal of
Blueprints is to foster social and emotional growth
through play. Children practice socially appropriate behaviour
and develop self-help skills to assist them in working with
new people and situations.
Physical Development
Blueprints includes daily periods of indoor and outdoor
play, where children use balls, hoops, water, sand, climbers
and tricycles to strengthen large muscles. Fine motor skills
enhance small muscle growth and coordination and include such
act ivities as: manipulating stacking toys, picking up small
objects with the thumb and forefinger, tracing over simple
shapes and designs.
Intellectual Development
Blueprints encourages children to develop critical
thinking such as observation, compare/contrast, categorization
and sequencing skills, to question, to experiment, and to
develop creativity through language, music, the arts and drama.
As individuals and in groups, children explore topics of natural
interest to young learners.
Language and Communication Development
Oral language is the basis for literacy and our Blueprints
program provides students with enhanced learning experiences
that help them acquire and understand oral language. Rich
language-oriented activities, relevant to the lives of young
children, are made available daily. Our early learners become
familiar with the patterns, rhythms and structures of language
and soon become motivated to discover the functions and features
of print. They begin to experiment with the writing of symbols
that are meaningful to them, which becomes the basis for later
instruction in the skills of communication.
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