Welcome to the 2025-2026 School Year 

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Ms. Emily's Family Information Form 2025/2026 - Google Forms 

Dear Parents,

Welcome to Buttercup Preschool at Yerba Buena Elementary School and Room E103!  I am excited to be your child’s teacher this year and look forward to a wonderful year full of learning and growth.  Our goal is to build a strong relationship between home and school that will support your child’s growth and development.  In addition to working on specific goals for each child we will also be working on learning colors, shapes, numbers, alphabet, good manners, social skills, pre-reading skills, sorting, classification, personal hygiene, counting, and communication skills as well as many other general preschool skills. We will be using themes and projects throughout the year to enhance learning. Circle time and centers will focus on specific areas of development such as fine motor, communication, pre-literacy, math, science, gross motor, music, and social skills.

Your child will be learning many things this year in the centers that we have in our classroom.  

Here are some examples:

Art Experiences

Children learn to: Experiment with a variety of simple media:  Express individual thoughts and feelings:  Make choices/decisions:  Develop eye-hand coordination:  Use senses to gain information about the environment:  Develop independence, problem -solving skills, organizational skills:  Understand causes and effect:  Observe color, texture, size and shape:  Enhance their own self -esteem.

Literature/Language Skills

Children learn to:  Focus attention on the teacher:  Follow simple storylines:  Communicate effectively in small group situations:  Respond to simple directions, commands and questions:  Acquire and extend the meaning of vocabulary words:  Arrange events in sequential order:  Distinguish between real and make-believe:  Retell the story:  Create own stories:  Use oral language in a variety of situations:  Develop awareness of different cultures.

Music/Movement

Children learn to:  Explore sounds, rhythm patterns, singing games and action songs:  Move and dance:  Develop coordination and balance:  Acquire fundamental movement skills:  Develop spatial and directional awareness:  Participate in cooperative games:  Develop sportsmanship and an understanding of safety:  Respect equipment and materials:  Build self -confidence and the ability to express oneself.

Science/Math/Cooking

Children learn to:  Use the five senses to gain information about the environment:  Predict, compare, contrast, count, sort, classify, sequence, match and discover cause and effect:  Make observations:  Develop curiosity:  Observe relationships between objects, weigh, measure, match:  Practice self -help skills:  Repeat patterns, form groups:  Develop fine muscle control and pincher control:  Develop perceptual awareness skills:  Discover properties:  Understand measurement and quantities.  

Sparkling wishes,

Ms. Emily

epemberton@lvusd.org