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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 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 22 years and at St. Joseph Catholic School for the last 6 years. I am excited to begin my 6th 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 September 1 - September 5, 2025

**NO SCHOOL MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st/LABOR DAY**

Religion: : God Made My Friends. We will discuss the traits that make us a good friend. We will learn that friends help each other. We will understand that Jesus is our friend and cares for us. The children will listen to a story about Jesus’ twelve friends. **We will attend Mass with our 4th Grade Prayer Buddies on Tuesday**

Language/Literacy: Heggerty Phonics Awareness Week 2: Lesson Overview: Weeks 1-6; Students will gain an understanding of rhyme by hearing and repeating rhyming words. Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words with focused consonant sounds. Students will learn to blend two works into a compound word. Students will isolate the final sound they hear in a spoken word with focused consonant sounds. Students will learn to segment a compound word into two individual words.Alphabet knowledge: letters in your name. Begin an understanding that words can be represented in print. Writing: writing our names. Listening comprehension: expanding word knowledge and following directions. Oral language: expand understanding of concepts

Math: Graphing boys and girls in the classroom. Data Analysis: sort objects and describe how groups are similar and different. Numbers and Operations: counting objects 1-10. Using twigs to form different shapes. Shape Focus: Circle. Attributes of a circle. Identify math vocabulary: side corners vertices. The children will review the process of drawing a circle.

Science: Coconut Science. The children will use their observation skills to explore a coconut. They will make predictions about what is in a coconut. The children will hypothesize whether the coconut will sink or float.

STEM: Using magnetic letters, blocks, cardstock and paper towel rolls, the children will have to balance and then count how many magnetic letters they can place and balance on their own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday: NO SCHOOL/LABOR DAY

Tuesday: ABC activities: The children will use Dot markers to identify a variety of letters. The children will identify their first names and recognize that their names begin with an uppercase letter followed by lowercase letters. The children will trace/write their names.

Wednesday: Number Exploration: The children will count up to 10 and down from 10. We will count various objects in the room that the children will gather. We will begin to understand and respond to spoken numbers between 1 and 10 and be able to say random numbers when shown the figure. We will also learn different ways to represent a number: the number symbol, tally marks, and the written word.

Thursday: “Bushel of Books”: We will read Peter the Cat, Too Cool for School By: Kimberly and James Dean. Concepts of Print: Title, author(s), illustrator, front, back, beginning of book. The children will help retell the story. The children will create their own Peter the Cat.

Friday: STEM: We will read another Pete the Cat Book: Pete the Cat and his 4 Groovy Buttons. The children will work in pairs to see how tall of a button structure they can make using playdough and large buttons. We will also make ButtonSlime. What happens when glue, water and liquid starch are added together?

Great job!

This afternoon we read Rex Wrecks It. This was a book about teamwork. The boys and girls showed their teamwork by working together to make a long chain to hang in our classroom.

Everyone had a fun taste testing!

Apple tasting! The boys and girls each tasted a small piece of a red, yellow and green apple. They recorded on their sheet if they liked the apple, didn’t like the apple or thought it was so so.

What happens to an apple when it is left out all weekend? The boys and girls made their predictions. We will check the results on Tuesday.

The boys nd girls colored and graphed their favorite color apples to eat. Red apples were the favorite.

Our first write the room. The boys and girls had a clipboard. They looked throughout the room for upper case letter cards. When they found a card they identified it on their sheet and traced the letter. This was difficult as it was our first Write the Room.

Giuliana shared the ME Bag this morning. She loves her Mom and Dad and is a good big sister to her 2 little sisters. She loves princesses and Minnie Mouse. She also brought in her favorite doggie stuffie.