Home

Welcome to Little Knights Preschool

at St. Joseph Catholic School!

“Called to Discipleship: Be Christ’s Light”

I am excited to be a part of the St. Joseph Catholic School community as the new full day preschool teacher working with four year olds. I look forward to being a part of such a positive and caring academic community where body, mind and spirit are nurtured and developed.

Although I earned my education degree in Ohio, I have been a preschool teacher in Libertyville for the last 15 years. I love teaching preschool children and seeing the world through their eyes. I believe a warm and loving environment both encourages children to learn as well as helps them gain self-confidence. I am a strong believer in learning through play as well as hands on learning to help foster a child’s creativity and development. I look forward to a positive, loving, and wonderful year with your child!

Posts

Peek At Our Week May 23 - May 27, 2022

**LAST DAY OF PRESCHOOL FRIDAY, MAY 27TH**

Religion: Special Lesson: Pentecost: The children will name ways that people are helpers. The children will express an understanding that God’s Son, Jesus, sent us the Holy Spirit to be our helper. The children will discuss how to bring peace to others.

Literacy: OWL: Unit 6 : Week 5: On Our Way to K! Concept Words: day, hot summer, frog. Amazing Words: patter, splash, spot. Academic Vocabulary: activity, begin, count, letter, sound. Phonological Awareness: produce words that begin with the same sound. Recognize letter sounds. Alphabet Knowledge: Recognize and name lowercase letters in your own name. Blend phonemes. Demonstrate understanding of the meaning of words.

Math: Recognize and create patterns. Coordinate a sequence of movements. Participate in classroom music activities. 2D shape sorting. Concepts of biggest and smallest. Counting with one item per count.

Science: An early summer fireworks experiment. The boys and girls will help make “Fireworks in a Jar”. Using warm water, vegetable oil, and food coloring they will watch as the color sinks, expand and mix. This is due to the fact that food coloring dissolves in water but not in oil. Because oil is less dense than the water, the oil will float to the top of the jar. The food coloring droplets will begin to sink because they are heavier than the oil. Once they sink into the water, they will begin dissolving into the water which looks like a tiny explosion.We will also discuss safety rules: How can we be safe at home, in the classroom and outside?? Demonstrate ways to stay safe.

Social Studies; Scholastic: Clifford My BIG World: Safe Around Town: Health Focus: summer safety. Social and Emotional Learning: responsible decision making. Music: Sing along. Literacy: letter recognition.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday: Our World and Beyond: The children will learn about the Sun. The sun is a star that the other planets revolve around. The Sun is at the center of the solar System. How hot is the sun? What does the sun do? (controls our seasons, helps food grow, keeps the other planets in line)

Tuesday: ABC Review. Letter Hunt and put letters in order. Identify sounds/words for each letter.

Wednesday: Patterning, 2D and 3D shape review. Counting to 20.

Thursday: Bushel of Books:We will read: Swimmy by: Leo Lionni. Concepts of Print, sequencing. The boys and girls will use markers and water to make a cute fish craft.

Friday: Last Day of school fun. The boys and girls will celebrate the last day of Preschool! **Parents are invited to come back at 12:30 in the Koenig Center to hear the children sing.

A fun afternoon activity!

Everyone agreed that the dough was very soft and felt so nice in their hands.

Everyone had fun playing with it. It was very crumbly, but it held it’s shape when squeezed together in their hands.

This afternoon we talked a little bit about the moon. The boys and girls the. Helped me make moon dough using flour and baby oil.

Mr and Mrs Friess came and read our class 2 of Samantha’s favorite books. We all loved the stories. They were both books we hadn’t read before. Thank you Mr and Mrs Friess!

The pieces of watermelon looked good enough to eat!

They had to cut, paint, tear paper for,the rind and put the seeds on their piece of watermelon!

Triangle Day. We talked about triangles and named all the different things that were shaped like a triangle. The boys and girls made a triangle piece of watermelon, a yummy summer treat!

The shape cards were hidden everywhere around the room. They did a great job!

The boys and girls had to find the shape card, locate the corresponding number on their sheet and write the name of the shape in the correct space.

Write the Room shapes.

Samantha was our Special Person on the day before her 5 year old birthday!

Creative Children! Dakota and Samantha made their own cell phones out of paper and Edward made a Captain Cutler helmet from the Scooby Doo show.
love their imaginations!,

Name: Mrs. Julie Feely
Position: Preschool
Email: Send email
Phone: (847) 362 - 0730