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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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We love to play in the snow and when we don't have the real thing we can make our own snow. Today for our science experiment, we made a snow storm in a jar!  With a mixture of baby oil and white paint and the magic of alka-seltzer bubbles, the experiment was a success!  We saw how the watered down paint and oil did not mix.  But when the sodium bicarbonate bubbles were released from the alka-seltzer tablets, the paint and oil moved and the snow storm began.
We learned about the Holy season of Advent and the Advent wreath. The wreath is circular to represent God's never ending love for us.  The color green represents life.  The three purple candles represent hope, peace and preparation.  The fourth and final candle is pink to represent joy.  The flames of our candles will help us remember that God wraps us in His comfort and keeps us from darkness.  
Here is a view into our classroom this morning.  Everyone enjoyed their Morning Free Choice time!
Afternoon Enrichment finished their Doreen Cronin author study with Duck for President.  We discussed all the features of this story: settings, characters, problem, and solution.  We learned that this particular story is circular - Duck ended up exactly where his adventure began! We then enjoyed sorting the characters and the different settings in this story.
It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Preschool!  This all group activity really challenged our listening, direction following and turn taking skills!
Afternoon Enrichment also explored the number ten and made Christmas tree ornaments for the classroom!