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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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Our lil’ turkeys did an amazing job of listening and following directions to assemble their Turkey Headbands! Our fine motor station today featured  “beaded” necklaces to create! Some preschoolers even created patterns by alternating different colors or different shapes! Just super!
Preschoolers made a cornucopia of God’s many gifts during our Thanksgiving Religion lesson! The children worked so hard and did an amazing job coloring their harvest fruits and vegetables! Their horn of plenty’s unfortunately did not make it into the backpack today. Please let me know if you would like to come by tomorrow morning to pick your’s up!
Look at these! Introducing scented markers at the easel today was a big hit! The vertical surface was both a novelty and amazing for that fine/gross motor work our young learners need!
November is Picture Book Month and this group has really been gobblin’ up our Thanksgiving story selections this week! 📕 
Preschoolers designed colorful patterns, using both color and shape, to make their “beaded” necklaces! They used AB, AAB, and even ABC patterning! Super skills, preschool!
Thanksgiving means remembering all that we are grateful for ! Today preschoolers drew pictures of what they are most grateful for this Thanksgiving! We love the illustrations of our SJ families!
Cranberry Bog sensory table! So fun pouring, ladeling, sorting, and spooning this seasonal fruit today! We made discoveries such as cranberries FLOAT!
Cranberry STEM: Math Circle! FLAT shapes! We discussed that these geometric shapes each have a certain number of sides and corners! Using toothpicks and cranberries preschoolers were challenged to create these flat shapes!
The children gained experience building shakes today using cranberries for corners and toothpicks for sides! Building and constructing shakes gives preschoolers the necessary hands-on experience they need to form knowledge! Then back to our circle to discuss FAT shapes!
Building FAT Shaoes! We have been using math language to describe our 3-d shapes, such as pyramid and cube! Preschoolers did an amazing job of constructing shaoes that have a top, a bottom, and sides!
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!