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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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Preschool+Plus Book Club featuring Jan Brett!📖
We completed our story slides before church and practiced retelling the story of The Mitten. This experience gave us lots of practice with vocab (author, illustrator, mole, badger…), sequencing events and characters in a story, use of ordinal numbers (what happened first, second..?), as well as opportunities to pay attention to special details in a book (even one we may have read before!). Loved listening to them retell their story! Can’t wait for Thursday’s read! 
Our Listening Center this week features a book by Denise Fleming! Time to Sleep is about bears and hibernation! 🐻
Tuesday’s Letter Days include lots of focus on letter sounds & phonics! We are listening for the first sound in words and identifying what letter makes these sounds! Phonological awareness!
Letter M is for Mary, money, Mickey Mouse, marshmallow, make-up, Mommy & me, mittens, mouthguard, motorcycle…
Letter M Word Wall! A few out of frame buy our count was 46 words that began with  /m/ ! Super work!
M is for Musical Chairs! 🎶 Letter writing style!
Combining gross motor with learning made for a very interactive and engaging literacy activity! When the music stops, find a chair, write the letter on your mat! Super fun skills practice! The singing & dancing was pure bonus!
If you know us, you know we love stickers for the list of fine motor support they offer our preschoolers! They also boost eye hand coordination by aligning stickers with a spot of the paper! The children then enjoyed coloring the M is for Mailbox picture with our scented markers today! 
Media with Mrs, Hoglund 📕 We enjoyed listening to this cute story about a snowplow who wishes for it to snow! The Little Snowplow, by Lora Koehler had us wishing for snow too! ❄️ 
Mitten Sort! Preschoolers chose from a variety of tongs and tweezers to sort colored Poms onto matching mittens today! Sorting by attribute is an awesome math concept for our young learners!
Letter M is for Mary, Mackenzie, Marquette, minion, Mario, Mickey Mouse, mint, Magna-tiles…
Preschoolers are one in a Minion!😄
Letter Day projects are a great way to introduce alphabetic knowledge to our young learners! We incorporate many different learning approaches during our letter focus weeks to help our young learners engage and explore! Projects also help them practice important skills such as listening to follow directions!
Choice Time: ‘M’ is for Mitten! Super job using a numbered key to color today! The children enjoy talking with eat other in the art center while they color! ❤️
Whole Group Math Monday! Preschoolers used several ways to represent numbers today! They counted sets of objects, and then found the corresponding numeral to create their mitten pair! Super job sequencing the matching pairs from 1-10!
‘M’ is for Marching Around the Alphabet! Incorporating movement to practice skills! This group was involved in rapid letter naming, identifying/producing letter sounds, and isolating initial sounds!! Awesome!