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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 20 years and at St. Joseph Catholic School for the last 5 years. I am excited to begin my 6th year at St. Joseph teaching preschool. 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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Bella and Sofie were our Special People today!

Annie was our Special Person today!

The carnations we put in colored water Friday are beginning to change color! We will continue to watch them all week and see if the color continues to deepen.

Next when the boys and girls are kindergarteners they will go back and be able to help harvest the vegetables. This was such a fun morning activity for the children!

Our class had planted seeds for the church to plant in their garden. Today we went over to the church garden and the gardeners helped the boys and girls plant, mulch and water our plants.

The boys and girls did a great job. Many of the boys and girls found and wrote all 26 words.

An A to Z letter write the room. There were 26 letter cards around the room with different spring words. The boys and girls looked for the cards and filled in the word by the correct letter.

Marian was our Special Person today.

Luke lost a tooth!

Peek At Our Week May 26 - May 30, 2025

**NO SCHOOL MONDAY MAY 27th/MEMORIAL DAY

**LAST FULL DAY OF PRESCHOOL FRIDAY MAY 30, 2025**

*WE WILL HAVE A END OF YEAR GOODBYE PARTY 8:00-9:00..Monday June 2nd

Religion: Last Religion Class/Summer. The children will talk about their plans for summer fun. The children will thank GOD for the experiences of preschool. **We will be attending the 8th Grade Farewell Mass and Awards Ceremony with our 4th Grade Prayer Buddies on Wednesday**

Literacy: Heggerty Lesson Overview Weeks 28-35 : Week 35. Students will produce words that rhyme. Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words. Students will learn to blend three phonemes into a spoken word. Students will continue to practice phoneme isolation with final and medial(vowel) phonemes in spoken words. Students will learn to segment a spoken word into three phonemes. Students will manipulate the initial phoneme in a spoken work with adding, deleting, and substituting. Use complete sentences in a discussion. Shared reading and story comprehension. What’s my word: Respond appropriately to a text. Answer questions about a story. 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.

Social Studies: Scholastic: My BIG World Clifford: “Outstanding Octopus”. Science focus: octopus behavior. Theme Vocabulary: glide suckers, blend in, disappear, bones. Skills We’re Practicing: group discussion, critical thinking, vocabulary, syllables.

Afternoon Enrichment

Monday: NO SCHOOL/ MEMORIAL DAY

Tuesday: Letter and number review. The boys and girls will go on a letter scavenger hunt outside. How many things can we find for each letter/\

Wednesday: We will work on making a variety of patterns using items in the classroom. The boys and girls will use non standard measuring tools to measure objects around the room.

Thursday: Bushel of Books:We will read: The Night Before Summer Vacation By: Natasha Wing. Retell the story, Concepts of Print, Sequencing the events. What are your plans for Summer Vacation?The boys and girls will dictate their own version of The Night Before Summer Vacation.

Friday: Outside fun! We will be meeting up with our 4th Grade Prayer Buddies for the last time.

The boys and girls used fruit loops and made a little bird feeder to being home and hang on a low tree branch.

They added the flowers and now we will wait and see how our white flowers look when we come back to school Tuesday.

5is afternoon we did a plant experiment. We learned that plants suck the water up through their stems. We started with white carnations. The boys and girls picked the colors and mixed them in the water.

We learned about Pentecost today. During Pentecost we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit. The boys and girls made beautiful crosses with tissue paper.

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

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