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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 20 years and at St. Joseph Catholic School for the last 5 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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It is Letter Vv week! It is hard to believe that we are almost done with our alphabet! Vv is for vegetables, valentines and vet!

Music class with Mr. Showstead! So fun!!

Hola from Mexico! We learned what it is like to live in Mexico through the eyes of a little girl named Rosa. We watched a video all about Cinco de Mayo and the importance of the holiday. We know this day is coming on Sunday so we made flag maracas to celebrate!

It was Media Monday and the children enjoyed listening to tall tales with Mrs. Hoglund She read Library Lil by Suzanne Williams and Steven Kellogg. It is a lively story about a little girl named Lil who always had a book in her hand. When she grows up to became a librarian and manages to turn the people of Chesterville-who are couch potatoes-into readers. The children also listened to the story of Johnny Appleseed and played an Earth Day game on the computers.

Morning fun today had lots of amazing castle building with the castle blocks! We also decorated flowers for secret May Day baskets we are making for our school helpers and friends.

Our Sunflower House is finally ready! The children were so surprised to see it this morning. Brady said "It is so beautiful!"

This afternoon, we read Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert. We discussed the colors of the rainbows, how a plant grows and what it needs to grow. We wondered why some of the plants in the story came from seeds and others bulbs. The answer is some plants develop enlarged portions along their roots that contain enough energy and nutrients to produce new plants. This large portion called a bulb significantly reduces the growing time for gardeners who don't want to bother starting certain types of plants from seed. After the story, we made our own beautiful garden using tangrams. Very cool!

Peek At Our Week April 29 – May 3, 2019

Religion Objectives:

Seeds – Jesus brings us peace - lesson continued. The children will recognize that love and peace are their best gifts. The children will create an Easter booklet.

God Made Surprises: God Made Countries – The children will know that God made and loves all people. They will respect people from other countries and appreciate the variety among people.

Literacy Objectives:

OWL - Unit 6 – Week 1 – What happens when day changes to night? Concept words cloud, day, moon, night, sky and star. Amazing words awaken, cozy, bundle, pale, scurry and spot. Identify daily routines. Assume various roles and responsibilities as part of a classroom community. Make It: blend phonemes, produce and identify rhyming words, letter naming, naming letter sounds, and concepts of print. Use language in a discussion and respond appropriately. Categorize and classify words. Demonstrate the understanding of the meaning of words. Pre-reading and reading activities with shared reading. Answer questions about a book. Retell a story. Left and Right. Spring CVC words.

Art in the Box featuring Laura Numeroff, the author of If you give… series.

Math Objectives:

Counting 6 and 7, making sets of 6 and 7, making smaller sets from 6 and 7. Recognize numerals 0 – 9. Sequencing a four step story. Spring patterning. Learning our important phone numbers. Recognizing counters in a ten frame and matching to correct number.

Science Objectives:

Investigate and describe sources of electricity. Identify good habits of exercise and rest. Identify and discuss objects in the sky.

Butterfly In-School Field trip with the Lake County Forest Preserve. The life cycle of a caterpillar.

Social Studies Objectives:

Use words to share information. Identify characteristics of families. What makes our families unique? Recognize that we can get information through technology.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday: Hola from Mexico! We will learn what it is like to live in Mexico and all about Cinco de Mayo!

Tuesday: IXL Math and Storyline Online.

Wednesday: Afternoon Gym with Mrs. Beyer’s class. Math Stations.

Thursday: Aye, Aye Matey! Preschool Pirates! Our afternoon friends will begin their pirate exploration!

Friday: STEAM challenge – Magnet Track. We will construct a track for a car that is controlled by magnets. Music class with Mr. Showstead.

We planted our sunflower seeds today! We cannot wait to watch them grow from seed, to sprout, to big beautiful sunflowers!

Our friends had fun recognizing and dialing their important numbers! This is a fun way to learn our phone number! Call me!

More rhombus fun and cool springtime patterning!

I am Randy Rhombus

I have four sides

All of them

Are diagonal lines!

Our classroom "phone" is all ready for the children to start learning their important phone numbers. They will be able to practice dialing their number as well as phone a friend!

In honor of Earth Day, we talked about how important it is to follow the three R's - recycle, reuse and reduce. We discuss what we can do to follow each of the R's and how it all makes a difference. We listened to the story of Michael Recycle by Elllie Bethel and became Recycling Superheroes!

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

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Peek At Our Week April 29 – May 3, 2019