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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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Peek At Our Week September 30 - October 4, 2019

Religion: Unit 2: God Made Holy Things: God Made Bibles. The children will know that the Bible is God's book. They will learn how to treat the Bible with respect and love. The children will enjoy a story from the Bible and gain a desire to speak to God. Seeds: Who Need Help? The children will recognize the sadness of people who are left out. The children will identify ways they can share and help others.

Language/Literacy: Unit 2 - Week 1: Meet My Family. "Who is in our families?" Alphabet Knowledge: differentiate uppercase and lowercase letters, recognize and name letters. Phonological Awareness: syllables in words. Oral Language: use language in discussion, use complete sentences of four or more words, label and categorize words, understand meaning of words. Motivation to Read: engage in pre-reading and reading related activities. Concept words: brother, family, father, grandparent, mother, sister. Amazing words: busy, messy, hush, neat, freeze, sticky. Focus letter study:

Ee.

Science: Fizzy Puffball Science: exploring chemical reactions - combining an acid (vinegar) with a base (baking soda) results in creating an entirely new substance, carbon dioxide! Our young scientists will be involved in following directions using scientific tools, making predictions, and using language to express observations. OWL: describe characteristics of people as they grow, understand that others have specific and different characteristics, practice good habits of personal health.

Social Studies: In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. The children will be involved in celebrating this historic journey as they learn about Christopher Columbus through non-fiction text, song, story, and a craft.

Math: Number & Operations - Count up to 10 items, understand that order of counting does not change the number, use concrete models and make word problems for adding up to 5 objects. Focus shape of the Month: Square.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday:"Our World and Beyond": We will be continuing our tour of different states and visit Michigan today. This state is the birthplace of the assembly line -thanks to Henry Ford. We will practice working our own assembly line "building" cars. The children will also make the state flower - the apple blossom.

Tuesday: The children will learn about number 5. We will learn the different ways we can represent the number 5. We will do our number 5 letter page.

Music with Mr. Showstead.

Wednesday: Gym with Mrs. Beyer's class. The children will continue their study of the letter E. They will have to search the room looking for uppercase and lowercase letter Es. We will try to think of as many E words as we can while stressing the two different sounds the letter can make. The children will make an E craft.

Thursday: "Bushel of Books": We will read Where the Wild Things Are by: Maurice Sendak. The children will explain what it means to be wild by giving examples. We will play a game using new words learned in the book: rumpus and gnashed. The children will all be crowned "King of the Wild Things" or "Queen of the Wild Things."

Friday:STEAM - We will read Twenty One Elephants and Still Standing By: April Jones Prince. It is the true story about the Brooklyn Bridge. After 14 years of construction, it was complete but people still worried if it was safe. P.T. Barnum seized the opportunity to show the people of Brooklyn that the bridge was strong enough to hold the heaviest of passengers. The challenge today will be to make a bridge using plastic cups and craft sticks that can hold 21 elephants.

After reading Little Blue and Little Yellow the children had fun mixing their own colors. They loved seeing that they could make different shades of a color by adding different amounts of a certain color.

The boys and girls decided to share some applesauce with Mrs. Koenig, Mrs. Lombardo, Mrs. Hein, Mrs. Phoenix, Mrs. Lentino, and Mrs. Wegener.

We all tried the applesauce we made yesterday...it was so yummy!

Scruffy’s next adventure is with Karlee. We can’t wait to hear about his visit next Friday!

Scruffy the Bear had a fun week with Carter! Carter taught Scruffy how to fish, how to drive a dune buggy and Scruffy got to meet Carter’s dog Niko as well as his big brother Cole and Mom and Dad.

The boys and girls all helped cut and then paint their own stegosaurus. When the were done painting they had to pattern his spikes.

The boys and girls and to put the letters of their name in order and glue them down.

Michelle was our Special Person today! She did a great job leading the class at Morning Meeting.

Afternoon Enrichment began right after lunch! We all cut up a lot of apples to add to the slow cooker. We are making applesauce. It will need to cook all afternoon and then we can eat some tomorrow!