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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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Mary, Mary quite contrary.
How does your garden grow?
Even our sensory table has a garden theme this week! We look forward to learning all about flowers that grow!
God made flowers! His gift of flowers show his love for us! Last week the children listed all the flowers they know including daisies, tulips, roses, and sunflowers! Today we planted sunflower seeds to grow in our classroom! We discussed the 3 things a plant needs to grow, and look forward to watching our seeds sprout! 🌻 🌱 Stay tuned!
Letter V is for vacuum, velociraptor, vulture, violet, visor, and Volkswagen Van! Super!
Media with Mrs. Hoglund 📕 
We love this week’s selection by Karma Wilson that included these 2: Bear Can’t Wait and Bear’s New Friend! Such a special character this lovable Bear is!
Today’s Heggerty Heroes was this group of guys! 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♂️🦸🏻‍♂️ Grady, Theodore, and Michael Bo!
“What is a seed?” The children identified characteristics of a seed such as they grow food, you can eat some seeds, seeds need water to grow, and some seeds grow colorful flowers! They did an awesome job of sorting objects that were seeds and those that were not! We enjoyed reading Eric Carle’s, The Tiny Seed, that described the life cycle of a seed/plant!
Our Giant Week of Jack and the Beanstalk kick off! Preschoolers worked together to complete a Jack and the Giant puzzle, made a list of “giant” words (super vocab preschool!), and we read our first selection of this famous folk tale! 
We discovered a jar of Jack’s Beans in our hallway! 🌱 Inside the card was special directions on how to plant them! So fun!
Preschoolers were so excited to plant their beans!  The children learned the 3 things our plants need to grow! We predicted how many days it would take our beans to sprout! Our guesses ranges from 2- 130! Stay tuned! 🌱 
This week’s Religion lesson was about working to help others! The children learned that Joseph was a worker and made things out of wood. Jesus as a children would often help Joseph in his work. They listened to a story about a Busy Bee from their lesson books! This week they also learned lots of non-fiction facts about bees with Mrs. Hoglund, learned a new Bumblebee song, and played a color rhyming game to find a bee!
Super Scientists with Mrs. Kelly & Nora: Lava Lamps!
Such a fun lesson to explore how simple ingredients can combine to create an amazing reaction! We discovered oil and water do not mix, and water sank to the bottom because it was heavier! Preschoolers identified colors mixed together that made a new color! The bubbles created traveled upward and carried colored water droplets with it! The children used their observation skills to describe what they saw! Thank you so much Super Scientists! Another great one to try at home with only 4 simple ingredients!
 
Next weeks plant study will include a story study of Jack and the Beanstalk! To prepare, the children enjoyed painting the stem of the plant and cutting the leaves for this ginormous plant this week! It seems to be growing right through the ceiling! 🌱 Stay tuned!