“What have you learned about the Arctic?” Amazed at their memory of what we discovered on Tuesday! Such an amazing list of facts!
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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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Polar Bear Letter Match-Up! Listening for letter names/sounds to identify letters! 🐻❄️
Getting the wiggle out before lunch! Polar Bear Hunt!
Look for these cuties to be included in our Arctic’s/Antarctic display at Open House! 🐻❄️ We did the math! It would take about 37 preschoolers to weigh as much as a polar bear!
🤩 😮 Wow! This group created an igloo almost as tall as me by using every last white cup today! Team indeed made this dream work!
Ice Fishing has been a popular center during Choice Time! Preschoolers then categorized their “catch “ by placing them on the uppercase, lowercase, or number column on the whiteboard! I love how they problem solved turn taking issue and created their own wait line!
Preschoolers learned how to fold and cut coffee filters to create one-of-a-kind snowflakes! They were amazed to see all the intricate designs made by this technique! And just like all of us, no two are alike!❤️
Using liquid water color to paint our unique creations! ❄️
Today’s Heggerty Heroes, Michael Bo and Joey 🦸🏻♂️🦸♂️
Media on the Move! 📕 As Mrs. Hoglund and our amazing volunteers prep the Media Center for the Book Fair, we enjoy her visit to our classroom today! We saw lots of beautifully illustrated flowers colored by students, including Theo’s! Don’t’ forget to color your flower with your favorite story of character and return for the contest! We enjoyed listening to The Curious Garden, by author Peter Brown, who also wrote the story The Wild Robot!
Ice is Nice! Preschoolers brainstormed different things that would make ice melt such as hot cocoa and fire! We made predictions what would happen to our ice cubes if we placed them in our classroom! They all agreed the ice would melt! We decided to find a location in the classroom to see whose ice would melt the most! We love their creative choice of ideas!
Ice is Nice! We had so much fun exploring the properties of ICE! We began discussing what would happen when we began “painting” with the ice! Our preschoolers all agreed our ice would melt but we were all surprised by the results as different colors were mixed together! They loved this process art activity and we love their results! 💜💙💚
We checked in our ice throughout the morning and discovered that our predictions were correct! The ice did melt!
Music with Mr. Showstead 🎶 Rhythym Sticks!
Comparing our results! The children noticed how much smaller their ice cube became as it melted! The ice did melt at different rates depending on its locations! Leo’s melted completely! Loved listening to them share their findings with each other!
