The Blooming Learning Programmefollows scientifically researched and developed principles that form the basis of joyful learning. It pursues a multifarious approach selecting the best and relevant methodologies, educational practices and principles from other schools of thought. In order to make learning enduring and meaningful experience, the following principles and theories support the Blooming Learning System:
SixDomains of Early Childhood Development: The domains of early childhood development aim to ensure the holistic development of a child. In Toddler’s Bloomingdale, it is achieved through multi sensory age appropriate activities children do every day and it also addressesthe preschool readiness assessment.
These domains are crucial to be assessed in order to prepare the child for primary education later. As per NEP 2020, the learning in formative years should cover the following facets:
Personal, Socio and Emotional Development
Children are taught emotional and social skills that build values of friendship, sharing, caring and compassion through classroom conversations, discussions, role plays and stage exposure. Children are also taught new social rules while co-operating and responding to the feelings of others. Personal awarenessfocuses on making the child aware of himself/herself and their immediate environment. Our curriculum is designed to help children develop independence, safety, hygiene and self-help skills.
Physical and Motor Development
Our teaching aids like stencils, clay moulding, lacing boards, colouring and writing activities are used to enhance fine-motor skills.Gross Motor Developmentfocuses on the use of large muscle groups and whole body movement to perform tasks like walking, balancing, crawling, running, jumping, and throwing. Our curriculum focuses on developing love for sports and physical activities at an early age.
Cognitive Development
It focuses on a child’s development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of brain development. Our activities focus on developing thinking skills that include learning, counting, understanding, problem-solving, logicalreasoning, remembering and drawing conclusions. The popular concepts of STEM and EVS are introduced at early age in order to help the learners grow in resonance with nature and immediate surroundings.
Language and Literacy Development
We use a language-rich environment to encourage children’s development of early literacy skills through storytelling, picture reading, identifying letters and words using Phonics to expand their vocabulary and create unique ambience to developtheir abilities to communicate.
Arts and Creative Development
To enhance art and creative development, the students are exposed to self-expression and art based activities like role play, dramas, storytelling, and origami accepting and appreciating individual differences in children.
Technology Development
The children born in the era of information, media and technology are trained at an early age to use computer as a support to different developmental domain and to demonstrate the basic computer skills.
