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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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Week at a Glance November 21 – November 22, 2016

Religion Objectives:  

The children will know that everything we have is a gift from God and say “thank you” for gifts/services.  We will also express our thanks to God. 

Seeds – The Feast of Christ the King. The children will explore their own real life experiences as followers and as leaders.  We will celebrate in prayer being followers of Jesus. 

Science Objectives:    

Edible science! We will be churning our own homemade butter to go with homemade pumpkin spice bread for our Thanksgiving Feast.  We will learn how the fat molecules will separate from the liquid in the heavy cream as it is shaken and clump together forming a solid that becomes the yummy butter! We will use our measuring and gross motor skills to measure ingredients and mix them together for the pumpkin spice bread.  Two liquids become two solids. 

Literacy Objectives:

Thanksgiving journaling. Color by number.  Concepts of print with Thanksgiving stories. Sorting Autumn pictures. Turkey poem. 

Social Studies: 

My Big World – Thankful for you.  We will discuss all the things we are thankful for: toys, siblings, pets, sunny fall days and food 

Math Objectives: 

Measuring and directional skills. Recreating and extending patterns.  Introduction of solid shapes. 

Afternoon Enrichment: 

IXL math.  I Spy Thanksgiving.  Painting with triangles.

Our 4th grade Prayer Buddies surprised us today during our religion lesson. They helped us make our kites to celebrate the gift of air and dropped off Thanksgiving cards for us!!!  So wonderful!
We made our turkey headbands for our party. We made patterns on the band using our shape of the month, the triangle!

Spirit Day Tomorrow - Friday, November 18, 2016

We are all encouraged to wear our SJS colors tomorrow for Spirit Day!

We made Thanksgiving cards to give to our Prayer Buddies tomorrow. We made our handprints into turkeys with feathers and jewels!  So cute!
We started growing sweet potatoes in class today!  We learned the spouts are called slips and they can be planted into soil to grow. 
How many preschoolers does it take to put a basketball net away?  We have so many helpers in our class!