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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 15 years. 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 April 22 -April 26, 2024

Peek At Our Week April 22 - April 26, 2024

**NO SCHOOL FRIDAY APRIL 26TH**

Religion: God Made Surprises: God Made Nations:The children will express an understanding that God the Father made and loves all people. The children will show respect for people from other nations and express an appreciation for the variety among people.

Language/Literacy: Heggerty Lesson Overview Weeks 28-35 : Week 30. Students will produce words that rhyme. Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words. Students will learn to blend three phonemes into a spoken word. Students will continue to practice phoneme isolation with final and medial(vowel) phonemes in spoken words. Students will learn to segment a spoken word into three phonemes. Students will manipulate the initial phoneme in a spoken work with adding, deleting, and substituting.

Math: Recognize and identify numerals 0-9. Matching shapes. One more/one less. Counting and graphing shapes.

Science: Earth Day: When you throw something away you make garbage. Too much garbage can harm the Earth. When you recycle you can use things again. What can we recycle and use again?We will read a book about recycling. We will become recycling superheroes and journal about how we can be friends of the Earth.

* How do birds make a nest? The boys and girls will watch a video about different birds and how and where they make their nests. Using grass, dirt, sticks and other materials found in nature, the boys and girls will work together to make their own nest for a bird.

Social Studies: Scholastic: My BIG World: Clifford. “Be An Earth Day Detective”: Science Focus: Earth conservation. Theme Vocabulary: detective, recycle. Skills We’re Practicing: group discussion, critical thinking, vocabulary.

Afternoon Enrichment

Monday: “Our World and Beyond”: Guten Tag! Today we will visit Germany. We will watch a short video about the culture of Germany. The children will learn to count to 10 in German. We will learn about a schultute, a cone of treats that children receive with a wish for a good and successful school year.

Tuesday: The children will review letters A-V. They will play a letter match game and participate in a letter sound Write the Room.

Wednesday: The children will review numbers 1-20. They will continue to practice writing their numbers, put them in correct number order and 1:1 correspondence.

Thursday: Bushel of Books: We will read Don’t let Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems. The children will discuss the book and sequence the story. The children will imagine and create a vehicle to drive.

Friday: **NO SCHOOL** Teacher Professional Development Day

We attempted to make our own tornado in a bottle with water, dish soap and glitter.

This afternoon we talked about all the different kinds of weather. The boys and girls did a great job listing all the types of weather they could think of. They also helped to sort different weather cards onto the correct group.

We will hang these in our hallway for the next few weeks.

The boys and girls ,are their own beautiful Spring blossom trees, similar to the one outside our window.

This morning we learned about the four seasons. The boys and girls did a scavenger hunt around the room and found a variety of pictures of all the different seasons. They had to group their picture under the correct season heading.

A Spring Write the Room. The boys and girls found the cards and wrote the spring words on their sheet.

Jake was our Special Person today!

This afternoon we read the book Ten Dots. We discussed what we could make out of one dot or two dots or even ten dots. The boys and girls had their own book to create pictures made from different number of dots. Some of the children created some very imaginative pictures!

The boys and girls send eyedropper to slowly drop the “rain” on the clouds and waited to see what would happen.

The boys and girls experimented and observed first hand how raindrops get heavy in clouds and then the rain falls. We used shaving cream as our clouds and water and food coloring as our raindrops.

We continued learning about rain and the rain cycle this ,opening. We read the book Little Raindrop which told the story of the rain cycle through the adventures of one raindrop. We took a vote, who likes the rain and who doesn’t. The majority of the boys and girls like the rain! We also discussed different things we can do in the rain.

Media with Mrs Hoglund. She read us a book about the life cycle of chicks. The eggs in the science lab should be hatching in about 4 days! After the boys and girls checked out books and used the I Pads.

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