Our purpose is to help your child become an independent learner in the classroom. This will lead to success in learning to read so that your child may read to learn.

 

We are committed to focus instruction on the California Preschool Learning Foundations to ensure that our individual students are prepared to the best of their ability to succeed in kindergarten and beyond. This preparation will help to develop and support our students as successful, independent learners when they address the rigors common core standards in kindergarten and beyond.

 

Here is just some of what your kindergartner will receive at Bluff View:

• A program aligned to California Department of Education Curriculum Standards for Language-Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, and Science

• Spanish Language and American Sign Language

• “Handwriting without Tears” program designed to teach the foundations for legibility and to build habits for good handwriting with specific pre-writing activities

• Weekly visits from our in-house Reading Specialist who works with the children in small groups to enhance reading instruction

• Library time in our in-house library, where the children are able to check out a book each week

• Access to the classroom computer and Bluff View’s own private computer lab

• Physical Education taught by Pacific Martial Arts includes athletics and skills such as: Focus, Teamwork, Control, Balance, Memory, Discipline, Fitness and Coordination

• Low student to teacher ratio. Class size is dependent on enrollment and will never exceed twenty two students

• A Teacher Assistant in the classroom works closely with the teacher to maximize individual student learning

• Off-site field trips to the Discovery Center, Planetarium, Fresno Chaffee Zoo, and Pumpkin Patch

• Holiday parties and special visits from Santa Claus, Fresno Fire Prevention, American Ambulance, Mother's Day Brunch, and more!