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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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This afternoon we continued working on beginning sounds and letters in words. The boys and girls did another write the room to get them moving and practice their handwriting.

T hey look so cute hanging on our classroom door.

The boys and girls cut out and made some cut snow people.

This was a great way to practice beginning letters, beginning sounds as well as our handwriting.

Morning write the room. We reviewed the words on the cards, identified the beginning letter and sound. The boys and girls went around the room and wrote the word from the card on their clipboard.

Charlie was our Special Person today.

Peek At Our Week January 19 - January 23, 2026

**NO SCHOOL MONDAY, JANUARY 20th/MLK DAY

**Book Fair Week**

Religion: Seeds: Unit 3: We are followers of Jesus. Lesson Theme: Jesus Cares about Families. The children will recognize that weddings are celebrations of family. The children will recognize that Jesus cares about families. They will identify that Jesus ate many meals with his friends and even went to a wedding. They will recognize that Jesus performed his first miracle at a wedding.

Language/Literacy: Lesson Overview: Week 13-18. Week 18: Students will recognize rhyming words from non-rhyming words. Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words. Students will learn to blend two parts (body-coda and onset-rime) into a spoken word. Students will learn to isolate the medial (vowel) sound in a spoken word. Students will learn to segment spoken words into two parts, onset and rime. Students will manipulate the initial phoneme in a spoken word by adding and deleting the first sound. Listen to beginning sounds, upper case alphabet knowledge, name it/find it letters, same sounds, lost letters and tracing letters in the air.

Math: Counting 5, ways to make 5, and smaller sets from 5. Matching numbers 1 to 5 with the correct grouping. Stacking three dimensional shapes to make new shapes. Ordering numbers 1 - 20.

Science: Hibernating. The children will further explore why animals hibernate. They will learn what animals do before they hibernate and how they can sleep all winter, stay warm and not get hungry. The children will act out word meanings: hibernate, forage. We will also talk about animals that migrate and stay in their habitat.

Social Studies: Scholastic: My BIG World Clifford: “A Long Winter’s Nap”. Science Focus: hibernation. Theme Vocabulary: winter, dormice, hibernate, hedgehog, snoozing, dozing,tortoise,slumbering,toad, resting, dreaming. Skills We’re Practicing: group discussion, read aloud comprehension,concepts of print, critical thinking, vocabulary, number recognition.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday: NO SCHOOL/MLK DAY

Tuesday: Letter Review A-P. The children will continue to work on their upper and lower case letter recognition, letter sounds as well as rhyming skills.

Wednesday: The children will review 2D and 3D shapes. We will continue to work on patterning and sequencing.

Thursday: “Bushel of Books”: We will read Snowmen at Night By: Caralyn Buehler. Concepts of Print.Rhyming words: how many rhyming words can we think of for snow, man, night. Drawing snowmen in shaving cream.

Friday: STEM. Using white playdough the children will make their own snowman. They will then use non standard items to measure their snowmen ( cubes, links and blocks) and will record their results.

The boys and girls did a GREAT job! They predicted they would have 39 mittens on our clotheslines. When all was said and done they had 41 mittens on the clothesline! Awesome.

This afternoon we read The Mitten. The boys and girls colored and cut out mittens. They were challenged with trying to fit as many mittens as they could our our clothesline.

The boys and girls did a beautiful job!

The boys and girls colored picture squares which we will use to make a quilt in the hallway. Mrs Beyer’s class will also be coloring quilt squares so we will have a huge quilt over the double door in the hallway.

They worked well in pairs to figure out the beginning sound letters. This is a skill we will be working on from now u til the end of school.

The boys and girls did a very difficult write the room. They had to find the picture cards around the room, identify the beginning sound of the picture word and write the letter on their sheet.

Callan was our Special Person today on his last day of school before he moves with his family to California. We will miss Callan!

The boys and girls painted their own cute hedgehogs. When they dry we will add the little noses and send them home!

Name: Mrs. Julie Feely
Position: Preschool Teacher
Email: Send email
Phone: (847) 362 - 0730

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Peek At Our Week January 19 - January 23, 2026