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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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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! ❤️
Preschool Process Art: Painting on Foil! 💙🩷💜 The slippery surface of foil was a fun texture to explore today, Preschoolers loved experimenting with color mixing on the reflective surface! Super fun!
Choice Time! Race to Fill! Fun one for expanding knowledge of adding numbers, quantities, and comparing numbers!! Popular Choice Time one today! 
Candy Heart Measuring gave us lots of practice with one to one, cardinality, and writing numbers 1-15! ❤️ Using non-standard measurements helps us master foundational skills, and focus on the process rather than formal units.
Friendship Make It/Break It! ❤️ During our Heggerty exercises each day we work on many pre-reading skills, including blending and segmenting! Today our Friendship Partners were given a compound Valentine word! Cupcake, Friendship, Sweetheart…  The pair segmented the compound word into 2 smaller word chunks, and then blended the 2 words together to make their compound word! Super skills & teamwork!
We reviewed Friday’s predictions before watching the groundhog’s forecast for weather! 
Preschoolers enjoyed watching our local, Woodstock Willie! He did NOT see his shadow today! Spring is just around the corner according to this weather forecaster! ☀️ 
Creating Valentines: Step 1 💘. Tearing paper is an excellent fine motor activity that strengthens hand muscles, helps refine that pincer grip (thumb & pointer finger), and improves bilateral coordination (using both hands together - like zipping a coat!). Preschoolers enjoyed filling their heart today!
Here We Glow! Science totally rocks! We had so much fun today experimenting with neon colors in our science station! Preschoolers used pipettes to drop the glow colors into an oil solution! They observed the paint’s reaction as it was added to the oil, and enjoyed watching the glowing colors mix! Definitely a do again!