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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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On Friday afternoon, we counted the room 1 through 20 Halloween sytle.  The children found many spooky creatures to count and record.

Week at a Glance October 24 – October 28, 2016

Religion Objectives:  

“God Made Water”.  The children appreciate the gift of water, associate water with life and know that water is used in church. 

Science Objectives:

Spooky ghosts filled with carbon dioxide and glow-in-the-dark slime! 

Literacy Objectives: 

OWL – Unit 2 – Week 3 - “How does everyone in a family help?” Concept words chore, clean, cook, inside, outside and work. Amazing words dust, tidy, pitch, squeeze, scrub and slippery.  Break it – compound words, naming letters Bb, Ee, Mm and Tt.  Play name it/say it letters.  Blending onset and rhyme.  Naming playground words. We will work on writing the letter Gg and finding it in our environment around us. 

Math Objectives: 

Color by numbers 1 through 5.  Counting dots and recognizing the number counted.  How many fingers in all? Different ways to make the number 4.  Adding one more. How many animals in the barn? Review counting items in any order up to four. 

Afternoon Enrichment: 

Concepts of print using Halloween story books.  Halloween counting and alphabet reinforcement fun!

We had fun exploring outside and investigating leaves. We journaled for our memory book about the leaves we found.
Look at all the pumpkins we harvested from the Preschool Pumpkin Patch!  We counted 13!  We gave some to our Kindergarten friends who planted them for us last year.  We also shared with our other preschool friends in Mrs. Beyer's room and our front office helpers. We cannot wait until Spring to plant our own garden!
This afternoon, we enjoyed various Elmer stories by David McKee. Afterwards, we made our own wonderful patchwork Elmer!

Week at a Glance October 10 – October 14, 2016

Religion Objectives:  

“God Made Music”.  The children will know that song and music can praise God.  We will also enjoy singing songs and be proud of our musicality. 

Science Objectives:    

Leaf Exploration.  We will go on a nature walk outside and examine our findings.  We are also going pumpkin picking in the preschool patch across the street and make special deliveries to our school friends!

Literacy Objectives: 

We will read If Kids Ran The World by Leo and Diane Dillon and journal our ideas.  Stay tuned!  Name it/Say it Letter game. Recognizing the beginning, middle and end of stories. Understanding concepts of print using Halloween stories. Onset and rime segmenting. Change beginning sounds to produce new words. Saying sentences with correct inflection and clasping words. Letter review of Dd and Ee. 

Math Objectives: 

Writing numbers and representing the numbers in ten frames.  Writing numbers 1 to 5.  Making, recreating and naming simple patterns. 

Afternoon Enrichment: 

IXL Math and Language Arts.  QR codes, counting objects and writing numbers.