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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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Cataleya H. Was our Special Person today.

Peek At Our Week November 25 - November 26, 2019

Religion: Thanksgiving: We will continue our lesson on Thanksgiving. The children will hear the Thanksgiving Story. The children will thank God for the good food we eat. The children will thank God for being good to us everyday.

Seeds: Jesus is our leader.The children will identify ways they lead and follow. The children will celebrate being followers of Jesus and recognize Jesus as our leader.

Social Studies: Clifford's My Big World- Good Thanksgiving Manners. "We have Table Manners". Social and Emotional Learning: Manners. Social Studies: Holiday Traditions. Language: vocabulary /visual discrimination.

Language/Literacy: Concepts of print with Thanksgiving stories. Five Little Turkey poem, Segment onset and rime, delete syllables. Writing: start at the top of the page.

Math:Learning Goals: explore solid shapes, use location words to describe objects and people, Numbers and Operations: model and make problems subtracting 1-4 objects from set of 4.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday: We will learn about The United States of America. The children will locate the states we have learned about. We will explore and talk about the flag and what the stars and stripes mean. The children will develop a better understanding of the Pledge of Allegiance.\

Tuesday: IXL Math. We will focus on patterning and positional words.

Wednesday: NO SCHOOL

Thursday: NO SCHOOL Happy Thanksgiving!

Friday: NO SCHOOL

The children lured the turkey into the hole with a pumpkin and carrot. Finally he was trapped!

After reading “How to Catch a Turkey” the children were challenged with working together to build a trap to catch a turkey. Using blocks, paper towel rolls, paper, and play food the turkey was trapped!

Afternoon Enrichment started out with the children making and comparing patterns, and trying to boxes for small blocks.

Lily brought Scruffy back to school today. Scruffy had a fun visit with Lily and her family. Scruffy will be staying at school this weekend to get some things done. Next week he will be going home with Mrs. Gillespie to spend the Thanksgiving break with her family!

During Circle Time we played a number game with colored turkey feathers. The children then helped retell the story of the first Thanksgiving. We ended Circle Time with a Thanksgiving story.

Eleanor was our Special Person today.

The children listened to “The Old Lady Who Swallowed A Pie”. They had to retell the story and put the things she ate in order. The children used ordinal numbers first through ninth. We also used the book to play some rhyming games.

During Afternoon Enrichment we played a prepositional game. The children had to pick a card and say what is was and then match in on their game board.

The finished product! Everyone did a great job!

The children made their Thanksgiving bracelets. As a poem was read they had to string on the appropriate color bead. All the children were such good listeners!