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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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Tracing our Names! We are learning the correct way to write our names!
So many skills here! Our dominant hand holds the marker. Our other hand is the helper hand and holds the paper. We trace our letters left to right, just as we write them. We start at the top, not the bottom to form a letter! Super eye hand coordination as we stay on the line! All of our fine motor work this year has helped us gain the strength and control we need! Super job!
We are growing Mammoth Sunflowers!
Planting our Seeds 🌻 We used see-through cups for planting hoping we will be able to view the roots of our plants as they begin to grow! Preschoolers learned that a plant needs 3 things to grow: water, sun, and dirt! We learned that birds, animals, and even people eat seeds! We look forward to watching them sprout! 
Today’s story, The Tiny Seed, which showed us how a plant grows! From seed to flower!  🌻 We all wondered if our seeds will grow as high as the flower in the book!
Music with Mr. Showstead! 🎶 
Preschoolers love using these! They enhance gross motor skills, eye hand coordination, spatial awareness, and self-regulation! All important skills in our young learners! Today the children had 2 scarves; one in each hand! We did a lot of crossing the midline movements which helps involve both sides of the brain!
Yesterday’s lesson on how a plant gets water was demonstrated today! The colored water was sucked up through the stems and made its way to different parts of the plant! Including the flower! We were all amazed!
Parts of a Plant! We are using many different learning styles this week during our plant study, including visual, kinesthetic, auditory, writing, and even musical!
As we learn about the parts of a plant, we are understanding the role each plays and the importance of each! 
When you win at a game of Flower 4 Corners! 🌸 
Look at the love here! They even clap (and hug) for friends that earn the Heggerty Hero Supercape! ❤️❤️❤️ 
Plant Write the Room! 🍃 🌱 🌸 
Preschoolers are really ”soaking” up all they are learning about plants this week! This information helped them identify pics for words that they then wrote on their recording sheet! Just amazing work today preschool!
Preschool+Plus goes Under the Sea this month! They investigated seashells and understood that many were once homes for sea life; such as crabs! We read House for a Hermit Crab, by Eric Carle, and were surprised to learn that lantern fish create their own light in the deep ocean! The children wanted to learn more about them so we watched a quick video to learn they use bioluminescence to create light! Preschoolers did an amazing job of listing things we would see at the beach, such as electric eels! This will be a fun month for sure!
Heggerty Superhero Superhero! These two did such a wonderful job of leading us today through our phonological exercises! This week our focus is rhyming, segmenting, initial/ending sounds, and blending CVC words! Amazing!
Springtime Write the Room 🌺 
This activity had us practicing fine motor control, left to right progression, and visual discrimination. All the skills a writer needs! 
Plant Science: “How does a plant get water?” We have been understanding the karts of a plant this week! Flowers, Leaves, Stems, and Roots is a fun movement rhyme that has been helping us remember each part! Our discussions have had us wondering how the plant absorbs water from the roots to all the way to the flower! We are using white carnations to show us how water is transported inside a plant! Stay tuned! 🔍 🍃 🪴
Storytime STEAM 🪂 
Wish we had more pics of this one! Mrs. Truskowski read an awesome summertime read, Here Comes Summer! Summertime includes lots of outdoor fun! The children were challenged to create a parachute for their Peep! We were amazed to hear that Izzy had used a parachute to fly in Mexico! The students chose from a variety of materials to creat their own parachute that would safely land their marshmallow Peep! We tested each one from a height of about 15 ft outside on the playground and were excited by the results!
This week preschoolers will be involved in learning about Sunflowers! 🌻 
Today we painted our flowers, the first step, and look forward to completing  them later this week by adding real sunflowers seeds to the center! We are excited to plant our own Mammoth Sunflowers, too, this week and learn how a plant grows from seed to sprout! Stay tuned!