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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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Waterfall Painting Process Art 💧 Such a fun activity that encouraged creativity, exploration, and fine motor development! Squeezing the pipettes strengthens those hand muscles! Love their engagement here! They enjoyed experimenting with color mixing as the 2 colors dripped together to create a new color!!
Today was all about Mom’s! We read a story that introduced us to baby animals and their unique names! Cygnets, pinkies, kids, calf, joeys, and more! The children also enjoyed playing a “Name That Animal Baby Name” game where they practiced using this knowledge! They did a beautiful job on Morning Work using a color key to complete a lovely bouquet of flowers for their own Mom! Scholastic’s MBW included a special non-fiction video about animal mom’s and babies!
This group truly has a green thumb! 💚 The vegetable plants we are growing for the Food Pantry vegetable garden have gotten so large that we had to transplant them into larger pots! Hoping to plant them in the garden in about 2 weeks!
These ARE magic beans! Just 24 hours later and these beans have sprouted, and 5 have grown over the height of the cup! 🌱 
Happy First Day! Preschoolers wanted to see a pic of themselves from our 1st day together! Can our time together really be almost ending?❤️
Preschool+Plus goes Under the Sea this month! The children investigated seashells and understood that many were once homes for sea life; such as crabs! We read House for a Hermit Crab, by Eric Carle, and were surprised to learn that lantern fish create their own light in the deep ocean! Preschoolers did an amazing job of listing things we would see at the beach, such as sea snakes! This will be a fun month for sure! 
During our Jack & the Giant week last week preschoolers planted beans! Our seeds have now sprouted, and created lots of excitement around the class! Even throughout our day together they grew even more and the children couldn’t believe the “magic” here! Mrs. Truskowski and I loved hearing them use all the language they used last week during our plant study to describe what they saw! 
PreK 4’s discovered some of their seeds have sprouted! Stay tuned for more to come this week! The see-thru cups gave us a visual to what is happening below the soil and most have grown roots, the first part of the plant to grow! 
Today’s Heggerty Heroes 🦸‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️🦸‍♂️🦸🏻‍♀️…Cate, Michael Bo, Joey, and Ruby!
Media with Mrs, Frels! 📕 A super read that was informative and funny! We learned the stages the caterpillar goes through as he turns into a butterfly and discovered this is called metamorphosis! Preschoolers were introduced to lots of new vocabulary! We enjoyed watching a short video about this life cycle, and hearing that the caterpillar’s first meal is his egg casing!
Happy 4th Birthday, Ania! Mrs. Nemmers helped us celebrate by reading a story that is special in their home, The Boy Who Ate Flowers”. This storybook was a gift for Ania’s grandpa when he was 3 years old…in 1960! Just awesome!
Monday Math Circle: geometric shapes! We reviewed basic shapes and added a few new ones! The children identified the number of sides and corners of each shape! Preschoolers then completed their Mother’s Day pattern using parquentry blocks. The children counted and recorded the numbers of each shape they used! Great language as we described and named each shape! They did a wonderful job of coloring their pattern using the color key!