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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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Easter Egg Science! The baking soda and vinegar reaction is not just fun, it’s science! Preschoolers are understanding that mixing different substances can create an entirely new substance! The vinegar and baking soda produced a gas which we observed as a fizzy reaction! The colored vinegar added to the sensory experience! This one is definitely one of our faves, and an easy one to do at home! Preschoolers chose an Easter egg pattern which was traced onto wax paper with glue! They sprinkled baking soda onto the glue, and then used pipettes to squeeze the colored vinegar onto the baking soda! 
Our Easter-themed sensory table has been a big hit filled with dyed pasta noodles, colorful bunny erasers, and plastic chick & bunny eggs!
Preschool 3’s attended a special blessing and dedication of our new playground by Father Jake. Father Jake even tested the slide for us!
Humpty Dumpty STEAM! 🥚 
Nursery rhymes are awesome for teaching rhythm, alliteration, and rhyming! All skills a reader needs! We loved reading and comparing different versions of this children’s nursery rhyme! The plot, the characters, the ending were all different! So fun! 
The ‘A’ in STEAM stands for Art! Preschoolers collaborated together to create their own “brick wall” for Humpty! They each enjoyed designing Humpty Dumpty’s face on their egg! 
The challenge: Build an egg enclosure that will protect your Humpty during the fall! Preschoolers chose from a wide variety of hard and soft materials including cotton, ribbon, cups, felt, pipe cleaners, bubble wrap, bowls, sponges, newspaper! They arranged their materials inside a ziplock bag along with their egg. We discovered that where the egg was placed in the bag made a big difference in the outcome of challenge!
We tested each egg enclosure!
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall!
Preschoolers chanted this refrain as their friends took turns with their own Humpty Dumpty falling off our wall!
Preschoolers were egg-cited to discover if their egg enclosure protected their egg or not!
March Madness STEAM with Preschool+Plus 🏀 Before our story, Dino Basketball, the children enjoyed designing their own basketball jersey!
The children listened to their challenge: to design and construct a basketball hoop for their basketball shooter! We discussed structure, shape, and materials!  Preschoolers also decorated their own basketball to shoot through the hoops! 🏀 
Preschoolers took turns testing out their basketball hoops and even their friend’s! They gained knowledge of distance, force, trajectory, and position as they practiced shooting some hoops! 🏀 So fun!
Read It, Write It! Total WIN! Preschool+Plus celebrated March Madness with this fun one! Select a basketball, write the corresponding letter on your recording sheet, crumble up the paper “ball” and make a basket! 🏀 Combining gross motor & learning! They loved this one!