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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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Brown Day Fine Motor Station 🌰
Introducing paper circles on dot marker sheets is awesome! Whole new group of fine motor skills being used here as we use the pincer grip to pick up small pieces, and use eye hand coordination to place them inside each circle shape! 
Super Scientists with Ellie! We love this Hopping Corn experiment for the use of everyday ingredients and total engagement it delivers! Super fun one to do at home! Ellie’s Mom & Dad several times even varied the experiment a bit by introducing different ingredients! Preschoolers enjoyed making predictions about the outcomes! Mrs. Caldwell kindly printed the instructions up, and we will be sending a copy home for a copy home for all of you tomorrow!
Acorn Brown Rhyming 🌰 Rhyming is a part of our daily Heggerty lesson. Preschoolers have really become aware of rhyming word pairs in stories, poems, and songs! Today’s game had them finding their own rhyming word pair using picture clues! Super job!
Our focus this month has been to really improve our coloring! Coloring both inside the black lines, and leaving no white! This requires control, patience, time, attention, and really caring about the work you are doing! This group is totally knocking our socks off with their great effort!
Mondays Friendship Feast will include these Lil’ Turkey Headbands!
Yep, they did it! Our Happiness Jar was filled with almost 50 amazingly kind, loving, and thoughtful things our preschoolers did for others this month. Ask your preschooler they earned!!! 🍿🎉🍿🎉🍿
Corduroy’s visit with Lily and her family! 💚🧸. Our favorite Bear went to the SJ Sock Hop with Lily! He had fun seeing her friends, doing the limbo, and hula hooping!  Corduroy loved going to golf lessons with Lily and Josie, and seeing Kinsley & Kaylee there too! Lily enjoyed showing Corduroy around her favorite store, Target, and seeing the Monster High toys! He loved visiting with Lily’s Grandma again! He hadn’t seen her since Josie brought him there last year! Corduroy helped cheer on the Bears at a football party, where he saw lots of other SJ friends! Thanks for taking such good care of our favorite near, Lily! He sure had fun!
Burn Giorno! Preschool Plus visited Italy this week! We stamped our passports and added another sticker to our suitcases to begin another trip with these World Travelers! Today we greeted each other and counted to 10 in Italian! Ciao!
Preschoolers learned about the yummy foods that originate from Italy, such as pizza, pasta, risotto, and gelato! They enjoyed creating their own specialty pizza complete with toppings! 
Preschoolers recognized the familiar faces of their favorite Turtles Leonardo, Donatello, Michaelangelo, and Raphael! But boy. Were they surprised when they met the Italian artists these turtles were named after! The children discovered these artists lived many years ago, but created works of art that are still present! They had fun playing our Ninja Turtle Pizza literacy game! Their fave food!