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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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Today’s Heggerty Hero 🦸  Collin! Attentive and engaged during our literacy/language lesson!
Mini Lit Circle. We practiced listening for and identifying beginning sounds of Halloween words! This gave us lots of experience with those phonological skills pre-readers need!
Preschool+Plus 🎃 Pumpkin Reporting
The children rotated through 8 stations today as they predicted, measured, categorized, counted, analyzed, and recorded info about their pumpkin! Super math job preschoolers!
We ,I’ve cumulative stories for helping introduce and teach such skills as rhyming, sequence of events, and predicted patterns! This one was a perfect read for today!
Preschoolers brainstormed their own rhyming words using characters from our story today! WOW! 🦇👻🦉
 Bat Day Letter Review 🦇  The children practiced naming and producing letter sounds for letters Aa-Gg, and matching letters as they flew their “bats” into the corresponding “cave”!
Practicing beats and rhythm with Danny Go “Bat Wing Beat!”   Preschoolers learned how to echo and repeat rhythms today during this fun one! Rhythm recognition is not only great for developing auditory skills, but a super pre-literacy skill that helps them understand the rhythm of language!
Halloween Math Fun! 🦇Preschoolers learned that the biggest bat has a wingspan of 6 feet! Mrs. Truskowski and I modeled how large a wingspan that would really be! During whole group yesterday, preschoolers listened and followed directions to create their own unique handprint bat! Today we measured our bats, wing tip to wing tip, using non-standard units! Preschoolers practiced skills in counting, one to one correspondence, cardinality, and writing numbers 1-20!
Fine Motor Monday! This was a huge hit with the preschoolers today! Talk about engagement! We introduced the pipettes to encourage our young learners to use that pincer 3-finger grip we need for holding a crayon, and it turned out to be so much more!  The children enjoyed experimenting with color mixing by adding various amounts of colored liquids to each cube!
Fall Fun with Mrs. Truskowski. The turning leaves outside have not gone unnoticed with this group! They have collected, tossed, compared, and observed all the fall leaves on both the large and small playground! We look forward to sharing all about leaves with them next week! Preschoolers enjoyed creating these fall trees by using a most unusual painting tool! 🍁 Beautiful!
This group was all about measurements today! Building a tower that was taller than them, and then trying to find out who was the tallest in the group!
Our Puzzle Pals worked together to complete this challenging floor puzzle! Super teamwork preschoolers!