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Welcome to Preschool at St. Joseph Catholic School! 

I am so excited to be your child’s preschool teacher this year!

This is my ninth year at St. Joseph Catholic School and I am looking

forward to helping your child grow, and learn,

and have fun this year.

I have been a preschool teacher in Libertyville for over 25 years,

and am passionate about helping young children learn.

I believe children learn best with hands-on experiences and

help facilitate their many different learning styles

in a kind and nurturing setting.

We will have an amazing year together meeting new friends, sharing new

discoveries, and learning new skills everyday.

Our instructional aide, Mrs. Tina Truskowski, has much experience in the classroom

after being a aide at St. Joseph Catholic School for over 15 years!

Together, we help build positive relationships with children to help foster

growth and confidence in a caring classroom community.

We are both looking forward to sharing a wonderful year with your child.

 

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Who lives in a cave? Preschool+Plus had fun learning about cave dwellers, including humans, and their many adaptations that help them thrive in dark caves! Bat number match had us recognizing and sequencing numbers 1-10 and  using one to one correspondence to find the matching number!
Cave crystals creations: using ingredients to create a solution for growing crystals! Working in groups, the children followed directions, measured and made predictions of how long the crystals will take to grow.  
    Scholastic My BIG World! Preschoolers practiced a fire drill using the three steps they learned today: 1) Stop and listen 2) Keep quiet 3) Go our together and 4) Stay together. Great job!!! Afterwards we came inside to watch a video about fire safety. More Fire Prevention Week continues!!
Leaf Science! 🍁 Preschoolers loved using magnifying glasses to investigate all our beautiful leaves!  Great job investigating Scientists!
Letter Review Aa - Bb 🦇
Reinforcing alphabet knowledge and letter sounds in fun, hands-on game! Preschoolers identified the letter in their bat and gave the letter sound. Then “flew” their little bat to the matching bat cave! Great opportunity for Math Words, too! Which cave had the most, least, the same?
Thank you to our Lake County Forest Preserve Friends for their wonderful presentation on Bats! Preschoolers learned about the many adaptations bats have to help them find food at night, including huge nostrils to help them smell insects! We were introduced to the classification of “mammal” and discovered that bats are the only mammals that can fly! The children were excited to learn that many bats find Lake County their home and promise to look for them on our next “nocturnal” outing!!! 🦇🦇🦇
And thank you to all our parents for helping to bring the Bat Program to our school!! It was bat-tastic! 
Storytelling! The children took turns role playing different characters in our story today! They had so much fun we did it 6 times!! Storyretelling helps build comprehension!