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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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Cookie Jar Shape Game 🍪 
We took turns picking a cookie from the jar, naming its shape, and sorting the cookies by shape! We counted and compared each shape! Square had the most!
Kitty Cat Dance 🐈 Such a fun one for Music & Movement today! The children were introduced to big books today with Mama Cat Has 3 Kittens, by Denise Fleming, and enjoyed this shared read! They especially liked Boris, one of the kittens!
Thank you God for our gift of smell! This week’s Religion lesson has us focusing on the sense of smell! We enjoyed playing a game that had us choosing between 2 things: Which one smells good?
Music with Mr. Showstead 🎶 
Mr Showstead guided the children on how to strum a guitar by using their fingers!
C is for Cookie! We loved creating our Cookie Monsters for Letter C day with Mrs. Truskowski this week! And he is also one of the characters at our game table this week, Sesame Street dominoes! A great way to or practice making set, and critical thinking skills! Before we left for the day we sang along with Cookie!  🍪 
Fine Motor Station: Rock Cleaning! Preschoolers discovered that a rock’s appearance changes when it gets wet!
Preschool Science: Rocks! Scientists make discoveries! The children took turns guessing which item did not come from rocks! Talcum powder, marbles, coins, fluoride toothpaste, chalk, glass, matches, and even Christmas ornaments contain materials that come from rocks!
Rock Science! We investigated the outside of a geode, then cracked it open and compared the outside to the inside! Ask us what we discovered!
PreK 4 Religion: God Made My Family.  We learned that God gave us each families to love and help each other. Families vary - some are big, some are small. This is a wonderful read to show us a family can be 1 or a family can be 10!
“Who are the people in your family?” The children worked in small groups to build their own family today! This gave us practice that we needed to construct our own representation later on paper! Preschoolers enjoyed sharing each member of their family (even the cats and dogs!) with their friends!
Preschool+Plus read The Day the Crayons Quit, by Drew Daywalt, and imagined what it would be like to have their own crayons quit! We watched how crayons were actually made, wrapped, and boxed, and heard some creative names for colored crayons! The children enjoyed hearing they will make their own colored crayon and name it! They did all the prep work today, and will showcase their colors later this week! Stay tuned! 🖍️ 
Preschool+Plus: Colorful Crayons Color the Room! The children enjoyed hunting for 11colored crayons in our classroom! Once found, they colored their recording sheet accordingly. Great to get us actively involved in learning as we move about! Much more fun to practice coloring instead of sitting at a table!
C is for Colors! Color Stew had us using “recipe” cards to add our ingredients to our stew! The children practiced number identification, counting, and one to one correspondence! 🌈