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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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Matching uppercase and lowercase Christmas light letters in three different challenging combinations.

Roll and Trace letters A through L.

Spin and Write out names using green markers, green crayons and pencils.

Jj is for Jelly Beadz!

Afternoon Enrichment made their own version of an If You Give book!

Afternoon enrichment compared If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and

If You Give a Pig a Pancake using a Venn Diagram! Great work finding the shared ideas and the unique details of each story!

Snow storm in a jar for science today! It was a big storm!

Gizmo, our elf, arrived today! He will be watching over us and reporting to Santa each night!

Week at a Glance November 28 – December 2, 2016

Religion Objectives:

Seeds – The Season of Advent. The children will learn that Advent is the awaiting of Jesus’ birth. The children will also connect the celebration of Jesus’ birthday at Christmas with their own birthdays. The children will also think of several kind acts they might perform as a gift to Jesus and grow in desire to prepare for His birthday. We will also learn that the Advent wreath is a reminder that we are getting ready for His birthday and the meaning of the candles – peace, joy, love and hope.

Literacy Objectives:

OWL – Unit 3- Week 2. What do workers in our community do? Learn new concept words: bus driver, doctor, job, mail carrier, police officer and teacher. Learn amazing words: alarm, emergency, firefighter, equipment, report and train. Same and different sounds, letter naming, matching upper and lowercase letters, saying letter sounds, what is my word, segment onsets and rimes, and deleting syllables. The children will also practice identifying rhyming words from a set of three, identify onsets, join syllables to form words and identify the ending sounds in our classmates’ names. Focus on our letter of the week Jj and identifying it in our environment. We will also learn the attributes of our shape of the month – the star.

Math Objectives:

Name common shapes, name common solid shapes (sphere, rectangular prism, and cube) and demonstrate use of location words.

Social Studies:

My BIG World - Cold is Coming. Compare how different animals ready for winter. How do different animals adapt to cold weather changes?

Science Objectives:

Snowstorm in a jar - this is a fun Winter activity and great opportunity to talk about and discuss a bit of weather science. How does it snow? What causes snow to form?

In the sensory table for letter Jj week, the children will explore Jelly BeadZ. Jelly Beadz are tiny hard plastic polymer beads originally developed by the USDA in the ‘60’s to help farmers irrigate their crops more efficiently. They absorb water very quickly and release that water much more slowly. This polymer is used in many common consumer products like baby diapers! It’s also used to help keep plants alive when mixed in the soil.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Laura Numeroff author study! She is the talented author of the “If You Give” books. We will explore these wonderful circular texts and alliteration through journaling and Venn diagram comparisons.