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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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This afternoon the boys and girls learned where The country of France is located. We learned how to say hello in French (Bonjour). We read the book Madeline about a little girl who lives in the city of Paris.
The boys and girls used Q tips to dot paint the Eiffel Tower.

Using for umbrella. The boys and girls cut and decorated their own umbrellas. Great job!

Music with Mr Showstead. He had the boys and girls up and moving to get their energy out.

Letter Uu Day! U is for unicorn, uniform, uncle, umbrella, up, upstairs and under!

Izabel was our Special Person today!

Peek At Our Week April 8 - April 12, 2024

Religion: God Made Surprises: God Made Big Things: The children will identify some big things made by God the Father. The children will express an understanding that God is great and powerful. The children will praise and thank God.

Language/Literacy: Heggerty Lesson Overview Weeks 28-35:Week 28. Students will produce words that rhyme. Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words. Students will learn to blend three phonemes into a spoken word. Students will continue to practice phoneme isolation with final and medial(vowel) phonemes in spoken words. Students will learn to segment a spoken word into three phonemes. Students will manipulate the initial phoneme in a spoken work with adding, deleting, and substituting.Focus letter of the week Uu. The children may bring a letter U item from home.

Math: Recognize and identify numerals 0-9. More and less. Recognize and create patterns. Matching shapes. Counting and graphing shapes.

Science: Wind. We will continue to explore different kinds of wind. Using a fan, the children will collect and predict items that the wind can move. What items blow the farthest and why?*The children will learn what a solar eclipse is. They participate in a hands on activity showing how the moon will block the sun this afternoon. They will observe what happens when the sun is covered by the path of the moon for a short period of time…darkness!

Afternoon Enrichment

Monday: Our World and Beyond: Bonjour! Today we will travel to France. We will learn about French culture. The children will learn to count to 10 in French. We will visit some famous sites in France through a video. The children will make a painting of the Eiffel Tower.

Tuesday: We will continue our study of the Letter Uu.. The children will go on a letter U hunt around the room. We will play a matching game with upper and lower case letters.

Wednesday: Number 20. How to write it as a symbol, in words and tally marks. Counting from 0-20. Collecting 20 items and using 1:1 correspondence counting them. More and less.

Thursday: “Bushel Of Books” We will read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by: Judi and Ron Barrett. This is a cute book about a town where food rains from the sky and how the townspeople react to this. We will discuss cause and effect, sequencing and concepts of print.

Friday: We will learn more about clouds and how they form. We will try to make our own “Cloud in a Jar” using hot water and ice.

The tallest stack was over 24 eggs! Great teamwork!

The Great Egg Stack. Working in pairs, the boys and girls were challenged with trying to stack as many plastic eggs in a tower as they could. They could use play dough as “glue” to hold the eggs together.

Once they had finished sorting all the colors they graphed the colors on their sheet. Great job!

The boys and girls practiced their sorting skills and sorted a bag of different colored jelly beans.

Purple Day! We mixed red and blue to make the color purple, brainstormed all things we could think of that are purple and read the book The World Needs More Purple People.

They all worked hard and most were able to find and write all 7 words.

The boys and girls did a great job on a spring write the room.

Zenon was our Special Person today!

This afternoon we read The Little House. We talked about the differences between the country and the city. The boys and girls cut out and made their own little houses!

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