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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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During Media, Mrs. Hogslund  read us “Over the River and Through the Woods”.  After she finished the book she played us the video of the song.
During Circle Time we learned about turkeys, did a silly turkey dance, and read a funny Thanksgiving book.
E played a lowercase letter game.  I said a word and the children had to tell me the letter the word began with.  They then had to find the lowercase letter on their page and dot paint it.
During Afternoon Enrichment we reviewed our letters.  We played the game “I Have”.  The children read the letter card they have and then ask for then next letter listed at the bottom of their card.  We played until everyone played all their cards.  
The afternoon began with a Gym With Mrs. Beyer’s Class.   The children learned how to play Gaga ball.  They all had fun running around!
The children cut out different leaves and had to glue the leaves down following the pattern on the paper.   The sensory table had popcorn kernels, magnetic letters and words.  The children found the words and used the magnetic letters to make the words on a metal tray.  
Center Day!  The children made a scarecrow out of different t size rectangles.   The children were shown an example, given the parts and pieced the craft together themselves.  The children also decorated a green triangle with poms, fun foam and tiny sequins.   These will be displayed in the classroom.
During Circle Time we continued our talk about rectangles and the. We talked about scarecrows.   We played a game and sang a silly scarecrow song.
We met with our 4th grade Prayer Buddies this morning.  The older children helped their younger buddies color and read a booklet called “Things we see at Mass”.  The younger children always love getting together with their buddies.
We talked about number 10.   We took turns marking 10 tallies.  Using Pom poms we did some adding problems.  The children would put down poms and count them and then make another group.  We would write a number problem and solve it.
We counted to 100 as we did exercises with a fun Jack Hartman video.  A great way to get the wiggles out while counting from 1-100.
Afternoon Enrichment started with the children finding 21 puzzles pieces around the room.   Then they had to work as a team and put the pieces in number order as quickly as possible.  Great teamwork!