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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 loved our friendship circle with gym time with Mrs. Beyer's class!
Ask your child about this wonderful folk tale about apples. They children were so mesmerized!
We had our very first round of centers! At our sensory table, it was Chicka Chicka letter fun discovering letters hidden in the sand and recognizing the ones in our names with our friends. We also worked on out fine motor skills with coloring our alphabet letters. At the yellow table, after singing "Head Shoulders Knees and Toes" we made our very own puzzle using fine motor skills (coloring and cutting) and spatial recognition as the children had to reassemble the puzzle in the correct order. At the rug, social skills, imagination and friendship blossomed as the children played with legos and animals. With Ms. Nash, the children discovered that they make heat called friction when they rub their hands together. We used our warm hands to form Sculpee clay into special backpack decorations to show our love and pride for St. Joseph School.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! The did fantastic work tracing all the letters of the alphabet. Our moring routine is running smoothly and the children are learning to write their letters while workign on their pencil grip and fine motor skills.
IXL was so exciting during Afternoon Enrichment! We focused on learning the program and practicing math skills up to 3 by counting objects, dots, shapes and using stickers. The children enjoyed working in their own, working with their friends discussing the math problems and cheering on their successes. IXL gives immediate affirmation as the children earn prizes! The children also enjoyed being comfortable around the classroom which allowed them to stay vested in their tasks and their behavior was equally positive leading them to become successful learners! The consensus was IXL is fun!
Gym time fun today for our preschoolers! They enjoyed having so much fun riding bikes, playing basketball and running around!
Ollie helped us work with two new word concepts - same and different. We learned today that sometimes we are the same as our friends and sometimes we are different!
We met Ollie our Word Bird. He taught us new words and their meanings. He caused many giggles with his silly voice!
The class went to Media with Mrs. Hoglund. They enjoyed learning about the media center and library.
Peek At Our Week August 27, 2018 - August 31, 2018
Religion – Unit 1 – God Made People. Lesson 2 - God Made My Family. We learn understand how family members love and help one another. We will know that Jesus, Mary and Joseph are the Holy Family. We will appreciate what our individual family members do for us. We will also desire to show love and concern for our family members.
OWL (Opening the World of Learning): Unit 1 “Welcome New Friends” – Week 1 – “What makes each of us special?” We will meet Ollie, our Word Bird. Concept words boy, classroom, different, girl, grow, same. Amazing words favorite, frown, grin, confuse, exciting, nervous. We will focus on phonological awareness with letter and environmental sounds. We will learn what is a letter, the letters in our name and others names. We will explore the concept of alike versus different. Distinguish between letters and numbers. We will focus on the letter Aa. We will explore how many words we know that begin with our letter of the week sound. Segment sentences into words. Recognizing the letter Aa in print and in our names. Recognizing objects around us that are circle shaped.
Math: Sorting various materials into groups – similar and different. Count objects with Ollie. Discover that objects can be counted. Haves and have nots. Recognizing colors. Count with one-to-one correspondence. Count up to 5 objects and demonstrate that the order of the counting sequence is always the same.
Social Studies: My BIG World with Clifford - “Hello, School!” School is starting. Everything is new! The children will learn different ways to greet old friends and new friends. This bi-monthly series makes learning fun with activities that build social development, vocabulary, language, and literacy skills in fun ways! Social-Emotional Learning Focus: new routines. Group Discussion: critical thinking. Vocabulary Theme Words: greet, friends, classroom. Following Directions: classroom environment.
Science: Apple Science. “How does an apple react in various liquids?” We will use the scientific methodology we learned about last week to predict, investigate, and describe what occurs when apple slices are placed in different liquids. We will also have an apple tasting and use our five senses as we compare three different kinds of apples. We will then graph our findings and analyze the results.
Afternoon Enrichment:
Monday: We begin our Global studies with the United States of America. We will learn the meaning behind our flag and the history behind pledge of allegiance.
Tuesday: IXL exploration.
Wednesday: Afternoon Gym with Mrs. Beyer’s class. Math activities.
Thursday: Continuing our author Study with Eric Litman/James Dean and Pete the Cat. Graphing our groovy buttons. Groovy button match game. Dancing the Cool Cat Boogie. Music CAPE with Mrs. Beyer’s class.
Friday: STEAM – The longest chain. We will begin our first STEAM lesson with building community in our classroom while introducing STEAM. This activity will help our students develop critical thinking and engineering skills. They will have to plan, design, and execute as they work together and create a paper chain.
Everyone in class came up with a way that they can show people that Jesus lives in their heart. Our children have big hearts and wonderful ideas!
Our afternoon friends are rocking in their school schools as we begin our author study with James Dean.
Caroline made a beautiful cross with a geoboard and rubber bands.
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