Our Program

Children can bring their lunch from home or participate in our lunch program. Our lunches are prepared through Bright Belly.  Through Bright Belly, parents can order online for meals and snacks that are appropriate and cater directly to their child’s appetite.  We always encourage our children to try new foods including fruits and vegetables to encourage them to develop healthy eating habits.  Some examples of what’s on Bright Belly’s menu are our famous Sweet Saucy Dogs, Grass Fed Beef, Chicken Nuggets, Veggie Burgers, Chicken Quesadillas, and these are just to name a few.

At Partners In learning, we implement inclusion as part of our daily curriculum. This means that no children are discriminated against no matter what their needs might be. We believe that all children should be given optimal consideration as unique individuals. By communicating with the family, the extended family, and additional resources, we design programs to accommodate the child’s specific needs. Our aim is that each child acquires a positive self-image and that a child who is treated with respect will learn to treat others with respect in return.

Some things that Partners In Learning will be helping to implement in the daily lives of these children will be sitting for a designated amount of time, communicating with peers and adults, selecting activities on their own, taking turns, responding to questions and demands, making choices, requesting things, and increasing their attention spans. At Partners In Learning, we feel that every child should receive the opportunity to be part of a “natural” school environment and all it has to offer. We will do everything to encourage positive social skills and help develop a sense of self-confidence.

Each class celebrates the joys of music and movement through a variety of fun and inviting activities. Playing with instruments, dancing and singing are important experiences for young children and here at Partners in Learning children learn while they have fun.

Cooking is a fun and well-loved part of our school’s curriculum. Children are given the opportunity to express themselves through carefully planned cooking experiences. Parents are delighted in the many delicious foods their children participate in preparing. With an emphasis on healthy eating, the teachers at PIL introduce good eating habits to our children at a very early age.

The children and staff at PIL are very proud of our new Outdoor Garden. Great care is taken, and excited anticipation always evident with each classroom’s section in the Outdoor Garden. Learning about foods and how they grow is an important lesson in each classroom, but actually watching the progress of food growing and then delighting in the harvest is a priceless experience. We love our new garden.

The Learning Without Tears Education is a Global Education Company that serves children from pre-school to grade 12. At Partners In Learning, we utilize the Preschool and Kindergarten portion of this curriculum as it filters into most of the surrounding school districts in our area. Some of the subjects that our children learn about are Phonics, Math, Social Studies, and Science. Some program features are as follows:

Phonics

            Phonological Awareness
            Explicit, Systematic Phonics
            Classroom Management
            Book and Print Awareness
            Literature
            Letter-Sound Knowledge
            Vocabulary
            Comprehension
            Writing
            Fluency
            Reading Aloud

Math   

            Sort and Classify
            Patterns
            Numbers 1-30
            Number Patterns
            Money and Time
            Measurement
            Data, Graphing and Probability
            Addition
            Subtraction

Social Studies 

            Being A Good Citizen
            (Following the Rules, Working Together, Solving Problems, Why     
            Do We Have Rules, etc.)
            My Country
            (The Flag That We Have, Map Of Our Country, Symbols Of The
            U.S., Statue Of Liberty, Our State, Symbols Of California, etc.)
            Workers
            (At School, Jobs In The Community, Picture Graphs, Working For
            Money, Choices When Buying, Jobs Today and Long Ago, etc.)
            Where We Live
            (Land and Water On Earth, Reading A Globe, Traffic Signs, Map
            Symbols, Models and Maps, Following A Route, etc.)
            Time
            (Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, One-Month Calendars, Months
            Of The Year, Year Calendars, Change Over Time, Presidents’
            Birthdays, etc.)
            Stories Of The Past
            (American Holidays, Reading Time Lines, Taking responsibility,
            Fact From Fiction, Colonial Life, Clues From The Past, etc.)

Science

           Animals
            Plants
            Earth’s Land, Air, and Water
            Weather and Seasons
            Objects Around Us
            Investigating Water