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Welcome to Preschool at St. Joseph Catholic School! 

I am so excited to be your child’s preschool teacher this year!

This is my ninth year at St. Joseph Catholic School and I am looking

forward to helping your child grow, and learn,

and have fun this year.

I have been a preschool teacher in Libertyville for almost 30 years,

and am passionate about helping young children learn.

I believe children learn best with hands-on experiences and

help facilitate their many different learning styles

in a kind and nurturing setting.

We will have an amazing year together meeting new friends, sharing new

discoveries, and learning new skills everyday.

Our instructional aide, Mrs. Tina Truskowski, has much experience in the classroom

after being a aide at St. Joseph Catholic School for 22 years!

Together, we help build positive relationships with children to help foster

growth and confidence in a caring classroom community.

We are both looking forward to sharing a wonderful year with your child.

 

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2026 Winter Olympics! Friday kicks off this amazing show of athletes from countries all over the world! Preschoolers were introduced to the traditions and celebrations of this important event! We learned 2 important mottos of their athletes! Always try your best and teamwork! Just like preschool!  Our first event was Number Write, Show, and Swipe!! We included a magnetic wand and discs for extra fun!
Our story today introduced us to some facts, sports, winners… of the Olympics! We discovered the youngest participant may have been as young as 7 years old! Unfortunately no record can be found.
We became familiar with some other the sports we will see in the Winter Olympics this year! 🎿  🏂 Skeleton was the most unbelievable! 
Today’s Olympic event included a challenging Write the Room! The children were given an uppercase letter on their recording sheet and had to write the corresponding lowercase letter! As we read and write, lowercase letters are the ones we use more frequently and the ones we need more practice with!
Preschool brings home the Gold! 🥇 
Each preschooler comokete all 26 letters of Write the Room today! This involved perseverance, teamwork, and giving it your all! Well done team!
Today’s Heggerty Heroes Trifecta! 🦸🏻‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️🦸‍♂️ Juliana, Charlie, Grady!
Rhyming Bag Trifecta! Our Rhyming Buddies give the class 3 chances to correctly rhyme with the item in the bag!
Michael Bo’s clue for DIME was “time”!
Collin’s clue for FLAG was “tag”!
Grady’s clue for DEER was “ear”!
Candy Heart Science! “How will candy hearts react in different liquids?” During circle we reviewed steps, materials, and vocab that we will be using. A scientist makes predictions, observations, and makes conclusions! Preschoolers predicted what would happen to a candy heart if it was placed in water: would it sink or float? They recorded and then tested their results! Now to the tables to carry out our own investigations in small groups!
Testing our predictions! Excitement & engagement was at a high! The children were bouncing around from table to table checking other groups results! The 3rd liquid we tested, soda, had the BEST results! The candy hearts first sank, then floated, then did somersaults and moved up and down! This started a conversation about how the bubbles in the soda contained a kind of air, and as they covered the heart, it lifted the heart to the top! Just like a balloon filled with air floats. But as the bubbles pop, the candy hearts float back to the bottom! 🩷
Preschool 3’s Religion Lesson - I Can Pray
Such a beautiful and meaningful lesson last week with our preschoolers. We discussed how we can pray at home, church, outside, or anywhere! We can pray aloud with friends (as we do at school) or we can pray silently in our hearts. God hears us. We focused on prayers of gratitude today, as our preschoolers shared what they thank God for ❤️
George - my house, my mom, my brother, my family
Mary - my family, Aba, presents
Kenny - Auntie ‘Em, Lida, prayer
Nora - my sister, my baby brother Everett, my Mom and Dad
Harrison - my family
Ellie - delicious food like soup and chili, my family 
Ania - my sister, my baby brother, food
Archie - my family, my dad, my mom
Leo - legos, my family 
Fine Motor Station! 🩷💜❤️ Mini eraser hearts in colored rice was a fun one to explore today! Preschoolers used tools such as tweezers and chopsticks to select and sort hearts into their game board!
Pre literacy skills in young children include letter and print awareness. We use their names to teach these skills to boost engagement and motivations! Today preschoolers focused on first letters of their name by building letters using candy hearts! This helped us understand how letters are formed, and that some have curved lines and some have straight lines!
Media with Mrs. Hoglund: Hapoy Groundhog Day! Preschoolers enjoyed listing to a new story from our school library today! Groundhug Day. by Anne Marie Pace, taught us about friendship and friends! ❤️