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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 drew ourselves driving the firetruck!!

We made Stop, Drop and Roll firetrucks at the Art table for Fire Safety Week!

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!

We love sharing books with our friends! Book time is a favorite in our classroom!

We finished up matching our pumpkin shapes today!

Morning work was Halloween fun - counting spooky friends!

Peek At Our Week October 8 – October 12, 2018

Religion Objectives:

“God Made Music”. The children will know that song and music can praise God. We will also enjoy singing songs and be proud of our musicality.

Seeds Lesson - Jesus is our friend. The children will celebrate their uniqueness. The children will hear Jesus’ words of friendship. The children will recognize that their families bring them closer to Jesus.

Literacy Objectives:

Letter Review of Aa – Ee. Rhyming words with the –at family. Review of Unit 1 and 2 stories and vocabulary words.

Math Objectives:

Counting numbers 1 – 20. How many in each row? Spooky patterns. Sorting Halloween friends.

Science Objectives:

Bats!!! We will have an in-school field trip with the Lake County Forest Preserve and learn all about bats. Hot vs. Cold.

Life cycle of a pumpkin. How does a pumpkin grow?

We will be visiting the Preschool Pumpkin Patch with our Kindergarten friends on Thursday!

Social Studies Objectives:

Who is Christopher Columbus and why do we celebrate him?

My Big World with Clifford: Let’s Have a Fire Drill! Health and Safety Focus: fire safety. Class Discussion: critical thinking. Vocabulary Theme Words: fire drill, gear, listen, practice. Math: number recognition.

Stop! Drop! and Roll! - We will learn this important safety technique and learn when we should call 911.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday: No School.

Tuesday: iPad literacy games.

Wednesday: Afternoon Gym and with Mrs. Beyer’s class. Number 4 journal page.

Thursday: We will begin our author exploration with David McKee, author of Elmer the Elephant. We will read about the adventures of Elmer and the lessons he has to share. We will make a one of a kind Elmer for our classroom to remind us how wonderful it is to be unique.

Friday: STEAM challenge – Pumpkin optical illusion! Music class with Mr. Showstead.

Pumpkin shape matching and Little Writer number tracing was so fun! The children loved learning to form the numbers properly and recognize the numbers too! Matching the silly pumpkin faces to their shape was also fine motor cutting fun!

We love painting in preschool! I think if we voted today - art would be our favorite center!

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Name: Mrs. Julie Feely
Position: Preschool Teacher
Email: Send email
Phone: (847) 362 - 0730