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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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After having a snack picnic at the rug, we got to work with our math application stations. Today was our second round of these engaging stations that the children really enjoy!  There was Build A Shape, where the children identified, described shapes, created, and composed shapes, Make and Count had the children making patterns and Fill it up, an exercise that had the children count the numbers of objects in each shape and record the number counted.  
Lots of fun running around in gym class as well as creative play with the hula hoops - Choo! Choo!
At the green table, we worked on discerning the size of the shamrocks and sorting them into the correct column - largest to smallest.  At the red table, we discerned uppercase and lowercase letters by recording the correct case.
At the rug, the children played Domino Parking Lot.  They had to put the parking places in correct numeral order from 0 to 12.  Then they has to use their one-to-one correspondence to count the dots on the dominoes and number recognition to park it in the correct place.  So fun!
The children loved listening to the beautiful story of Only One You by Linda Kranz. It is about a little fish who learns that there is only one you in this great big world and we can all make it a better place.  They made beautiful unique fish too!
We used tangram manipulatives at the yellow table to copy, create, count and reproduce tangram patterns.  Many skills are exercised here such as developing problem-solving and logical thinking skills, perceptual reasoning (nonverbal thinking skills), visual-spatial awareness and many mathematical concepts. 
Thank you Mrs. Villegas, our Wednesday center helper.  The children loved rainbow writing their names with you!
We had the opportunity to meet with Mr. Harris at SHP to learn more about how the bunk beds are made.  What an amazing workshop!  Thank you Mr. Harris for the tour!
We delivered our pillows to Sleep in Heavenly Peace with our Prayer Buddies.  We collected fifty pillows making over 100 pillows collected by the Preschool and 4th Grade!  Thank you so very much for your generosity!
After attending mass with our Prayer Buddies, we enjoyed an ice cream treat in honor of St. Joseph Day!  Yum!
We enjoyed the Irish folk tale 'Nora Mavourneen and the Fairy Queen’,  featuring Irish music plus original illustrations   Nora is a “gloomery” little girl who learns to smile after meeting the woodland fairies.  The children then all became fairy king and queens!