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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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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! 
The children learned that the story of Pinocchio was originally written by a man from Italy! We ended our morning with a favorite music & movement activity, Pinocchio!
Community collaboration here with the Marble Maze! Love the way they are working together on engineering a maze to navigate their marble through! It took a lot of patience, listening to other’s ideas, resolving conflicts, and sharing materials and creative ideas! Super job preschool!
Thanksgiving Count the Room! Preschoolers are really improving on their number writing skills! That tricky number 5 still gives us a hard time, but such an improvement in other numbers!
Save the Date! In March we will hold our first SJCS Glow in the Dark Art Show! Preschool used glow-in-the-dark paint this week to create jellyfish for the show! 🪼
Happy Thanksgiving Mrs. Hoglund 📚
We enjoyed listening to There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey, a cumulative story we have not yet read! Preschoolers were introduced to Starfall, and did an awesome job of navigating through this interactive phonics game on their iPads!
Easel Painting 🐿️. Our preschoolers are getting so good as painting inside the lines! Even with something as tricky as this week’s squirrel! Working on vertical surfaces is amazing for fine motor coordination and strength that our young learners will need next year in PreK 4!
Sneaky Squirrel Game 🐿️
We love, love games for helping our young learners use a multitude of skills, including social skills (turn taking, collaborating, problem solving, communication) as well as skills and concepts! This week’s choice even sneaked in some fun fine motor! This has been a popular one with PreK 4’s, too!
Squish it, Roll it, Squeeze it, Flatten it! No matter how you use it, Play-do is the BEST! Just amazing for helping both sensory and fine motor development! Preschoolers have learned how to use different tools safely, and clean up after playing with it!