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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 sixth 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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Solar System Study! 🌎 ☀️ 🪐 Preschool+Plus is spending the month exploring astronauts, space, stars, Moon, and planets! The final project next week will have us creating models of our planets using a paper mache technique! We are learning facts and features of each planet! We have discovered the smallest, coldest, largest, windiest, and much more! Preschoolers also did an awesome job of coloring, cutting, and mapping out our solar system this week!
Mary, Mary Quite Contrary
How does your garden grow? 
After only 6 days, our vegetables are growing! Squash, beans, lettuce, and cucumbers have sprouted! 🌱 🥬 🥒. Still no sign of carrots. Have heard they like to be planted directly in the ground, but hoping we can fool this bunch! Stay tuned!
In the Rain with Baby Duck is a sweet story about a family going to the grandparents for Sunday breakfast! Baby Duck is miserable in the rain, and thinks he needs rain boots and an umbrella to stay dry! 
This math game we introduced during small group with Mrs. Truskowski this week has become a choice time activity! Look how they stuck with this game until completion! Super shape Skills!
We love small group activities for cultivating social skills! Working together builds cooperation, sharing, and language skills that are so important for our young learners!
“Do ducks need umbrellas?” Preschoolers used the scientific method in this fun experiment today that had us investigating how ducks stay dry after spending so much time in the water! We painted our feathers with oil, and then observed how the “rain” rolled right off! 
Rainy Day CVC Write the Room 💧 
We practiced our Heggerty skills today! Preschoolers have gained experience with so many skills during these daily literacy lessons! They did an absolutely amazing job with this activity that had them “reading” picture clues, identifying beginning sounds, and writing the corresponding letter on their sheet to complete the CVC word! We are writing words! 👏
Scholastic My Big World with Clifford: “Rain Today? That’s Okay!” These social studies lessons are filled with non-fiction pics and text, literacy games, movement activities, and fun! 💧
Raindrop STEM 💧 “How many raindrops can your cloud hold?” Preschoolers used pipettes to drip “raindrops” onto their cloud! They counted each drip their cloud could hold until the “rain” dropped! We love all their conversations and discussions during this activity! 🌧
Preschoolers counted the drops they added before “it rained”! 🌧 
We compared our counts ranging from 5 to 149! 💧 
Choice Time.  We have been discovering lots of different ways to represent numbers! Our Math Center gave us super practice with identifying/naming numbers, using one to one, counting, and subitizing!