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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 almost 30 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 22 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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Scavenger Hunt! Our Classroom Community!
Preschoolers worked together in teams to locate important things in our classroom! When they found items such as the toilet, tissue box, garbage can, puzzle shelf they ✅ each box! Loved seeing our returning preschoolers help our new friends!❤️
High five! 🖐️ Great teamwork matching uppercase to lowercase in our alligator puzzle! 🐊

Preschool Plus completed their very first Write the Room today! And they loved it! Their excitement as the searched the room for matching uppercase letters to color on their recording sheet was amazing! We look forward to more of these activities that get the children involved in their own learning! We also so enjoy their teamwork and collaboration as they help each other search the room for letters to complete their sheet! They all found all 26 letters!
Special Person leads us in prayer each day, helps with calendar, weather, is our line leader for the day, and more!
Monday we used a preference graph to identify our favorite apple! Today preschoolers were introduced to a T-graph to compare letters in their name! We sorted our names by “having an A” or “not having an A”! This dialogue has the children beginning to understand the difference between having an Aa in your name or having your name begin with an Aa. As we build our Word Wall each week, the children will see concrete examples of this!
ABC Quacks! 🐥 Such a fun way to practice letter naming with a twist! Ask your preschooler what they did each time a yellow duck popped up instead of a letter!
Thursday’s lit circle is set aside to do a deep dive into phonics! We play games to develop letter/sound awareness, movement activities that tie into our letter focus, letter and phonics work! The children practiced letter naming and letter sounds during our Apple game today! ‘A’ says /a/.  Look at this group modeling the short /a/ sound!
Preschoolers were introduced to the “tools” we will use to practice writing letters, and how to use these tools! We learned to “slide down” to form diagonal lines! They totally rocked it! Our brains are growing as we learn new things!
Our phonics skills paper also includes letter identification and letter writing! We gather first at the carpet to complete the work as a group, with friends taking turns to complete different sections. Then the children head to the tables to complete their own independently! This group did an amazing job of striving to do their best on our very first skills sheet! They all deserve a round of applause! 
Media with Mrs. Hoglund 📕 
Preschoolers made their first visit to the Media Center today! Mrs. Hoglund introduced us to 2 of her favorite characters, Elephant & Piggie! The children enjoyed learning that Pigeon, another Mo Willems creation, appears somewhere in each book! We loved listening to I’m in a Book, and watching the video of I Can Fly, which had us all lol! We look forward to learning about how to care for a library book soon, and checking a book out from the SJCS library this year!
Fine Motor Station: Geo Boards & Rubber Bands!
Awesome learning going on here as we begin an understanding of how letters are formed! Straight, diagonal, and curved lines are combined to form our ABC’s & 123’s! Manipulating the bands into correct position to create these letters requires dexterity and fine motor strength!  We also practice identifying and naming these uppercase letters!