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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 had a great time pretending to be firefighters at the sensory table.  It was filled with orange water, floating lights and number flames.  We had to put out the "fire" out by spraying the flames with the correct number of squirts.  We also made firetruck puzzles.  We exercised our cutting skills, left-to-right sweeping along with number identification and sequencing 1 to 10.  Counting spiders was also silly fun as we had to write our numbers all by ourselves with our best effort!
It is Fire Safety Week!  We watched a video about having a fire drill.  We talked about how drills keep us save and are for practice in case we ever need to know what to do.  We all remembered our safe meeting place in the park.  Does your family have one? We also learned "Get out, stay out!" and that firemen are our very brave friends. We will be learning more safety points this week too!
Our friend Brady became a bat!  Miss Ali and Miss Katie explained the different body parts of a bat.  The sunglasses demonstrated to us how poor the bat's eyesight is.  Bats use echolocution to send high pitched sound waves to bounce off objects that they fly around and to help them find things to eat.
We learned that bats are the only flying mammal.  They are nocturnal and come out at night.  They love to eat mosquitoes which we were so glad to hear!  We even have things in common with bats - we are warm blooded, have live births and have hair!  Bats need to eat half their weight every night too.  We even got to touch a real flying squirrel that lives in the forest and comes out at night with the bats.
We learned about the brown bat and enjoyed hearing the story The Big Brown Bat by Rick Chrustowski.  We saw a red bat too and an actual skeleton of a bat.  They were very delicate and small,  Amazing!
We had our in-school field trip with the Lake County Forest Preserve!  Miss Ali and Miss Katie came to teach us all about bats!  We listened to stories and a funny poem.  We even saw real bats!