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Welcome to Little Knights Preschool

 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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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.
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.
We learned about rain and how raindrops are formed in the clouds.   The boys and girls did a great job with raindrop math!
Clifford came and brought us our Scholastic magazine!