“What do you need to get dressed in winter?” Our game table this week includes a coloring game board!
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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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Table Time includes this fun Design-a-Snowflake with shiny, colorful manipulatives! ❄️
This week’s sensory table features Arctic animals and ice!
Snowball Toss ⛄️ ❄️ What a super way to practice eye hand coordination and gross motor skills!
Snow Globe Matching was not an easy task! Each snow globe pic had subtle differences that made it tricky for the children to locate the friend that had their match! This activity focused on visual discrimination, an important skill for letter recognition! They did an awesome job of following sets of instructions in order to complete!
Preschoolers then went to the tables to record their own Mitten Matches on paper! They used lines to connect pairs, and then colored each matching pairs!
Our own little Morning Work!
‘N’ is for numbers, Natonton, nail polish, narwhal, ninja, nightlight, number blocks, noodle….
And ‘N’ is for Nora!❤️
My heart is so full! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. Keep those baptism photos coming. We are sooooo enjoying sharing these with our friends.
Yes! Count ‘em! 4 Heggerty Heroes today!🦸♂️🦸🏻♀️🦸♂️🦸🏻♂️. Theodore, Ruby, Collin, and Michael Bo!
This week’s literacy focus is on rhyming so this book was the perfect choice! Author P D Eastman met Dr. Seuss in the Army and they quickly became friends. Along with a few friends they created a type of book called an Early Reader! These books have easy, repetitive vocab, pictures to engage, and lots of rhyming text! Preschoolers loved the story, and had fun watching the silly antics of their dog in the story!
ABC Challenge helps us practice letter naming (both upper and lower), and letter sounds!
Snow Letters ❄️ No snow outside? No problem! Our “snow” cream was just the thing to practice alphabet knowledge and letter sounds! As each sound was introduced the children traced the letter in the cream using their fingers! Using shaving cream makes letter formation more memorable than paper & pencil because it engages multiple senses! Creating these memory paths also helps our young learners understand shape and stroke better than just paper!
Another winner in the books for this group! Super score! Mrs. Truskowski enjoyed introducing each sound, and then revealing the letter for preschoolers to check their answer! /a/ and /e/ were today’s tricky letter sounds!
Going on a Bear Hunt…with a twist! This fun one focused on musical storytelling, sequencing, rhythm, and movement! Preschoolers enjoyed using their bodies to create the story’s sounds such as swish and splash!
