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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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Afternoon Enrichment read Daisy Head Mayzie by Dr. Seuss.  Then we akk became friends of Daisy Head Mayzie in some fun wacky ways!

Sleep in Heavenly Peace - Pillow Collection

We will be delivering the pillows we have collected on Wednesday with our Prayer Buddies.  We are still accepting the donations until then.  Thank you so very much for your generosity!

Peek At Our Week March 18 – March 22, 2019

Religion Objectives: 

Seeds – Jesus God’s Son. The children will realize they belong at Mass, recognize that Jesus is God’s Son and be able to describe prayer as talking to God.  The children will identify personal prayer times and places.

God Made Living Things – God Made Butterflies. The children will marvel at the special wonders of the earth and know that forms of life change. The children will praise and thank God. 

We will be delivering our pillows to Sleep in Heavenly Peace on Wednesday morning with our Prayer Buddies.

Why is there a cross? We will read the story by Kathleen Bostrom.

Science Objectives:

Rainbow shaving Cream Rain Clouds – we will learn about how rain is formed and what happens when water droplets evaporate and continue to collect in a cloud.

Social Studies: 

Name features of the environment around us and identify features of a jungle. Recognize the names for the days of the week.

Literacy Objectives: 

OWL - Unit 5 – Week 1 - What is a jungle? Concept words branch, color, hot, jungle, leaf and trunk. Amazing words explore, hunt, twig, giant, moist and graze.  Respond appropriately, produce and identify rhyme, name letters, recognize letter sounds, irregular plurals, demonstrate understanding of meanings of words, delete onsets, ask and answer questions about a book, What’s my word? Counting syllables. Recognizing rhyming words in the –ed, -at, -un and –ig families.

Math Objectives: 

Recognize repeating patterns, patterns in sound, and patterns in nature.  The concept of one less. Counting to 10 and ordering objects to 10. Sorting by size – small, medium and large. How many?

Afternoon Enrichment: 

Monday: We will finish our Ireland lessons learning about Celtic designs and dancing lessons from Jack’s sister Maggie!

Tuesday: IXL exploration and app of choice. 

Wednesday: Afternoon Gym with Mrs. Beyer’s class.  Continuing our Math Manipulative Fun – Make and Count, Build a Shape and Fill it up!

Thursday: Author study with Dr. Seuss with There is a Wocket in My Pocket.  We will explore rhyming and create our own wocket in our pocket.

Friday:  STEAM challenge –   Magnetic racing cars.   Music class with Mr. Showstead.

Lucky the Leprechaun left a note and sent us on a treasure hunt.  It was so exciting to go around the school and find the clues.  At the end we found Lucky and a treat of golden Oreos and coins.
I can see a rainbow!  Skittle science produced a pretty rainbow in our classroom. We learned about dissolving (as the candy coats melted in the hot water), absorption (how the colored mixed with the water) and saw how the colors mixed. 
Today was a perfect day to have a lesson with Clifford and learn about the wind!  We had a great time dressing Little Monster for all kinds of weather!
We learned that Pi is a never ending number that is the same for all circles when you divide the perimeter by its diameter!  It was also fun using Mrs. Gillespie's compass!  So cool! 
Happy Pi Day!  We had fun this morning celebrating the circle and the number Pi.  We made abstract circle art, practiced cutting circles, build with round pennies and made Pi pattern bracelets.  Mrs. Gillespie even brought in her compass that she used as a student at SJS so we could make perfect circles!  So fun!