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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 Circle Time we talked about the letter C. What words begin with C: car, cape, camera, clock, and Cattleya Orchid to name a few. We have 4 friends whose names begin with C: Cataleya H., Cataleya O., Carter, and Carmine,

Peek At Our Week September 9 - September 13, 2019

Religon: Unit 1 - God Made the World: God Made My Church Family. The children will be introduced to their Church Family. They will know that they belong to the Church and know that this is God's family. They will learn about the special roles of priests and Mary and hear about the Saints.

Language/Literacy: Unit 1 Week 3: Friends to the Rescue: "How do friends help one another?" Alphabet Knowledge: differentiate uppercase and lowercase letters, recognize and name letters, sequencing letters in our name. Phonological Awareness: Blend and segment compound words, categorize words, identify rhyming words. Concepts of Print. Oral Language: respond appropriately, expand word knowledge, use language in discussion, use complete sentences of four or more words, label and categorize words, understand meaning of words. Writing: write to convey meaning. Concept words: class, give, help, listen, share, school. Amazing words: company, icy, shiver, arrive, exclaim, thick. Focused letter study: Cc. Home/school connection: Bring an item from home that begins with Cc.

Social Studies: My BIG World with Clifford - "Let's start school!" What do we do in school? What is the first thing you do when you arrive? Social-Emotional Learning: new routines - Group Discussion: explore new words through visuals - Vocabulary Theme Words: greet, choice time, circle time, routine - Math - measurement.

Science: Rock On! Hands on science using scientific tools: magnifying glasses, balance scales, goggles. Children will be able to compare and sort rocks by their attributes such as size, appearance and shape. They will be introduced to many types of rocks. Children will test various properties of rocks: hardness, volume, density, sorting. They will use descriptive words to build vocabulary: bumpy, hard, smooth, rough, heavy, light. Children will be involved in discovery of use of rocks in everyday objects. OWL: Identify good habits of nutrition.

Math: Number & Operations: Use verbal ordinal terms. Use words to rote count from 1 to 30. Data Analysis: sort objects and describe how the groups are similar and different. Making spatial/geometric connections by forming shapes with our bodies. Focus on Shape of the Week: Triangle.

Afternoon Enrichment

Monday: "Our World and Beyond" - we will continue learning about the state we live in Illinois. We will learn about the White-Tailed Deer.

Tuesday: We will work on our Number 3 journal page. The children will look and around the room and find 3 of one type of item. We will continue to learn about different ways to represent a number (Tally mark, word, symbol, picture of items). IXL math.

Wednesday: Gym with Mrs. Beyer's Class. We will review the letter of the week - Cc and find some C objects in the room. We will continue to work on Uppercase and Lowercase letters as well as writing our names. The children will make a picture of something beginning with the letter C.

Thursday: "Bushel of Books": we will read Peter the Cat and the Groovy Buttons by James Dean.

Friday: STEAM - We will make some button slime. The children will see how the texture changes as all the ingredients are added.

The boys and girls sewed together their own pocket using yarn. They wrote their name on a piece of paper to stick in their pocket. Corduroy’s friend Lisa sewed a pocket on his overalls and put his name in it.