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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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Ice is Nice! Preschoolers brainstormed different things that would make ice melt such as hot cocoa and fire! We made predictions what would happen to our ice cubes if we placed them in our classroom! They all agreed the ice would melt! We decided to find a location in the classroom to see whose ice would melt the most! We love their creative choice of ideas!
Ice is Nice! We had so much fun exploring the properties of ICE! We began discussing what would happen when we began “painting” with the ice! Our preschoolers all agreed our ice would melt but we were all surprised by the results as different colors were mixed together! They loved this process art activity and we love their results! 💜💙💚
We checked in our ice throughout the morning and discovered that our predictions were correct! The ice did melt! 
Comparing our results! The children noticed how much smaller their ice cube became as it melted! The ice did melt at different rates depending on its locations! Leo’s melted completely! Loved listening to them share their findings with each other!
We were curious why so many seemed to melt by melting from the inside out! Many had unusual holes in the center!
Today’s Heggerty Heroes 🦸‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸‍♀️ Cate, Ruby, and Adaline!
Our Heggerty lessons include initial sounds objectives! Snowflake Swat was an awesome pick for helping us focus on this important skill! The ability to hear sounds in words is an important foundation for reading!
“What do you know about snow?” Preschoolers brainstormed all they know about snow before reading our non-fiction book! We discovered that out of all the billions of snowflakes that fell this morning, no 2 are alike! Each flake is called a crystal and has 6 points! This was all first determined when a man called Snowflake Bentley was able to photograph snowflakes!  We enjoyed seeing various crystal shakes and counting the 6 points on each!
Science is Snow Fun! Preschoolers each received their own  “field kit” to make their own up-close observations about snow! Each kit contains a beautiful poem about snow, a diagram of various snow crystals, a magnifying glass, and black felt to capture the snow! Just like Snowflake Bentley! We recommend putting the felt in the freezer first before going outside so it doesn’t melt the snow! 
Super Snow Science: Exploding Snowman ❄️ 
We have observed many reactions when vinegar & baking soda are combined, but this was the first time the reaction was contained! The result of these 2 household ingredients combining creates a gas! We compared this to blowing up a balloon and watching the balloon fill up with air. Even though the air is invisible, it still takes up space! It was so fun to watch the preschoolers own reaction to this one!

Exploding Snowman Experiment ⛄️

Everyone’s rate of timing, and force of explosion varied with some needing some coaxing to explode! We discussed why this might be!
Letter Match Challenge: “Can you find and dot all the letter matches before we go home?”  This one had us working on alphabet matching, which helps build stronger letter recognition and phonics! Super speed round!
Preschool+Plus World Travelers: Arctic and Antarctica ❄️
This month we explore the North and South Poles! Brrrr! One is land surrounded by water, and the other is water surrounded by land! Today our explorers enjoyed ice fishing! What a fun way to sneak in a little literacy lesson! Our Arctic Explorers “fished” for letters and sorted them by either uppercase, lowercase, or number!