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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!

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Peek At Our Week February 6 - February 10, 2023

Peek At Our Week February 6 - February 10, 2023

Optional Conferences Thursday, February 9th NO SCHOOL

Teacher Institute Day February 10th. NO SCHOOL

Religion: Unit 4: God Made Living Things: God Made Flowers: The children will express an understanding that God the Father made a variety of flowers and express an understanding that creation demonstrates God's goodness and wisdom. The children will thank God for the gift of flowers

**We will be meeting with our 4th Grade Prayer Buddies this week**

Literacy: Name it, say it alphabet. Find rhyming words. Blend letter sounds into simple CVC words. Isolating ending sound in words.

Math: Ten frames. three and six part sequencing stories. Which one is similar, which one is different? Making AB and ABC Patterns. The children will graph candy hearts. They will sort and organize the hearts by number. They will color code the graph and count. Which color had the most/least?Focus Shape: Heart

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday: "Our World and Beyond" We will travel to China! The children will learn how to say Hello (Ni Hao). China celebrates their biggest holiday of the year during this month, the Chinese New Year. This is the year of the rabbit. We will learn about China through a few books, a short video. The children will do a "directed drawing" of a Panda. We will also make Chinese lanterns.

Tuesday: The children will write the room with the letters of the alphabet. We will also work on rhyming. Which words rhyme? Sorting rhyming words by word families.

Wednesday: We will play a number recognition heart game. Using Candy Hearts, the boys and girls will work on their estimating skills. Review 2D and 3D shapes.

Thursday: NO SCHOOL OPTIONAL CONFERENCES

Friday: NO SCHOOL/ Teacher Institute Day

The girls Bad Wolf (hair dryer) came around to each house and tried to blow them in. The paper houses fell and a big surprise was the big paper brick house also was blown over! We had lots of fun chanting he piggy rhyme while the wolf blew.

Great teamwork!

All the groups did a great job figuring out the best way to build their houses.

This afternoon we read The a three Little Pigs and also watched video of a different version. The boys and girls were split into groups and given different things from which they had to make their own pig houses: paper, tape, paper towel rolls, legos, Lincoln logs, toothpicks, play dough and large paper brick blocks.

Write the Room. More practice with our upper and lower case letters. The boys and girls had to find the uppercase letters around the room and color in the matching lower case letter on their sheet.

Candy heart science.we put candy hearts in vinegar, water and soda. The children predicted what they thought would happen. After observing the candy hearts all morning we looked wrote our results. They did a great job with their predicting the outcome.

Caitlin was our Special Person today!

This afternoon we read The Gruffalo. The boys and girls ,are their own Gruffalo paper bag puppet and also completed a sequencing activity.

Chiara’s Mom and Dad came in to read us 2 birthday books. Chiara read the class one book and her Dad read the other. Thank you so much for coming in to our Classroom. Happy Birthday Chiara!,

Using an eyedropper, the boys and girls slowly dropped red colored vinegar and watched what happened. Many of them were able to see the red heart shape fizz and bubble up due to the chemical reaction of the baking soda and vinegar.

After a fun visit to the Book Fair to make our Wish Lists, the boys and girls did some fun science. We made exploding hearts. They were each given a bowl with a heart traced in glue and a candy heart in the middle. They each had to sprinkle baking soda on top.

Chiara was our Special Person on the day before her 5 year old Birthday!

Scruffy will spend the next week with Charlie. We can’t wait to hear about their adventures!

Cole had a fun week with Scruffy! They went to the Pancake breakfast together, watched a movie together and Scruffy even helped Cole shovel the driveway!

The boys and girls made their cute groundhog craft. Will the groundhog pop out and stay out of his burrow???

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