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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 one of the full day preschool teachers working with four and five year old children. I love being a part of such a positive and caring academic community where body, mind and spirit are nurtured and developed.

I earned my education degree(BA) in Ohio and a Masters Degree (MA) in Massachusetts. I have been a preschool teacher in Libertyville for over 22 years and at St. Joseph Catholic School for the 8 years. I am excited to begin my 8th year at St. Joseph teaching preschool. 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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Peek At Our Week October 26 - October 30, 2026

Religion: Pflaum Gospel Weeklies:Seeds. Unit Theme: We are the Church. Lesson Theme: Jesus has two rules for us. Objectives: The children will identify rules they follow at home and in the classroom. The children will recognize Jesus’ Great Commandment and understand that Jesus offers happiness to everyone, and promises it to those who believe.

Language/Literacy: Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Week 9: Students will hear and repeat rhyming word pairs, and begin to recognize rhyming words and non rhyming words. Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words. Students will learn to blend two syllables into a spoken word. Students will learn to isolate the final phoneme in a spoken word. Students will learn to segment a spoken word into two syllables. Students are introduced to manipulating parts of a word when two new skills, Adding and Deleting syllables are introduced in week 7. Answer questions about a story. Retell a story. Understand the meaning of words. Concepts of print will be reviewed: front of the book, back of the book, title location, author, illustrator, where to start reading and where to stop. Make it: onset and rime. Letter focus of the week: Hh. School/home connection: bring a letter H item to school.

Math: Numbers and Operations: use concrete models and make verbal word problems for adding up to 5 items. Writing numbers: 1-5. Data analysis: describe differences and similarities between groups.

Science: The children will use paper towels, markers and water to explore capillary action. By coloring with markers on paper towel leaf shapes and then placing it in water, the children will observe how the water travels up the paper towel, carrying the marker colors with it, creating a “magic” color separation effect.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday: Our World and Beyond: Today we will travel to the state of New York. New York has the beautiful Adirondack Mountain region as well as New York City. The boys and girls will learn about the Statue of Liberty which is located in New York City, where it came from and why.The boys and girls will follow directions and complete a craft relating to the Statue of Liberty.

Tuesday: We will continue our study of the letter H. How many words can we think of that begin with the letter H? The children will search the room for the letter Hh as well as objects that begin with the letter H.

Wednesday: Our Number exploration continues with the number 8. The children will practice making the number 8 with tally marks, the symbol and the written word. The children will sort and count 8 items.

Thursday: Bushel of Books: We will read Nuts to You By Lois Ehlert. The children will take a walk outside and look for squirrels. We will keep a tally of the number we observe. The children will also look in the trees for squirrel nests.

Friday: **We will have our Halloween Parade at 12:10 out front of the school and our Halloween Class Party from 12:30-1:30 this afternoon**

This afternoon the boys and girls did a number 1-10 Count the Room.

Can’t forget our Morning Prayer crew. They did a fantastic job singing “Jesus Loves Me”, saying the Pledge of Allegiance and saying the school pledge.

We carved our pumpkin as we said the Pumpkin Prayer. A copy of the prayer will be sent home in each of the boys and girls’ folders today.

We opened up our big pumpkin and all the boys and girls were able to feel the gooey inside. This pumpkin had so many seeds in it!

We had a fun visit to the pumpkin patch this morning. All the boys and girls picked out their own cute pumpkin.

When we opened up the pumpkin the boys and girls saw that the pumpkin floated because has a lot of air in it.

This morning the boys and girls all held our pumpkin to determine if they thought it was heavy or light. What would happen to this pumpkin when we put it in water? We took a vote….It was pretty even ….10 sink 9 float. The pumpkin floated.

Christopher was our Special Person today!

This afternoon we did a letter Write the Room. Working in pairs the boys and girls had to write the lower case letter next to the upper case letter on their sheet. This activity is a fun way to get the boys and girls up and moving, working with their friends and learning their letters.

The boys and girls are doing such a great job with their names as well as recognizing the letters in their names.

The boys and girls had to glue the letters of their name in correct order and add the stem for the pumpkin.

A very busy morning! We had our Religion Lesson which taught us how we could praise God and we went to Mass.

The boys and girls also completed a quick pumpkin name activity. They had to cut out their pumpkin and the strips with the letters from their names.