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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 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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Ho, Ho, Ho Holiday Centers!
Christmas Tree Sequencing Sizes 🎄 Mrs. Truskowski’s blue table center was the top favorite today as the children rotated through the centers with their color group! They cut, arranged, and ordered strips from small to large! Trickier that it looks! They did an amazing job of following directions! These beauties are already decorating our classroom! 
Counting on Christmas Trees 🎄 So fun decorating our Christmas Trees by counting out the holiday manipulatives on our numbered cards! Super use of your math skills, preschoolers! 
Christmas Tree Letters! 🌲 So fun using candy canes to form our letters in green sugar! This sensory experience actually helps children gain a better awareness of the movements they are using to form each letter! 
Candy Can Measuring! Preschoolers used non-standard units to measure items in their classroom! This was so fun to see how the children navigated this center so independently! Lots of wonderful opportunities to use more math language! We gained practice in counting, one to one, cardinality, and following directions! Our accompanying recording sheet gave preschoolers practice in writing numbers 1-10.
J is for Baby Jesus 💙. Preparing our hearts and classroom for Christmas!
Preschool 3’s had fun this week creating these using paint, paper, and glue!
December Listening Center: The Gingerbread Man.  Audio books are an incredible resource for enriching a child’s multi-sensory experience with books! Our goal is to help share our love of reading with our preschoolers!
Christmas in the Netherlands! Preschoolers were excited to find special treats in their “wooden” shoes this morning! 
Preschool+Plus  Celebrating Christmas Around the World! 🌎 
Each week we pack our “suitcases”, including our Passports, to discover new cultures and holiday traditions! Preschoolers enjoy adding new stamps to their passports as we travel to new countries!
G’day! What a fun time we had celebrating Christmas in the land down under! We met many animals know to Australians, such as wombats, platypuses kangaroos, while we listened to Mem Fox’s story Wombat Divine. Our non-fiction follow-up video had us learning a lot about wombats! We discovered they are nocturnal (like bats), eat grass, and can run fast! The children were amazed to hear that Christmas in Australia happens during their summer! And loved seeing the Surfing Santa’s that hit the beach on Christmas Day!
Jingle Bell Maze STEM!
Preschooler’s team challenge was to create a maze using Duplo Blocks! We introduced the concept of mazes by using a 2-D paper model!
Transferring our a-maze-ing designs to a 3-D model! Using paper and pencil to navigate through a maze is an altogether different concept as preschoolers used materials to create their own Jingle Bell Maze! Where a marker first created their oath on paper, they now required sides, doors, and walls on their structures! Preschoolers collaborated in small groups to create their own maze! They did an incredible job of sharing ideas and working together as a team!
STEM Chalkenge. Testing our mazes! Teams worked together to navigate their jingle bell through the maze! This process showed the children what worked and what did not! They made adjustments after their initial run to make their mazes even more a-maze-ing! The children enjoyed taking turns to test other team’s mazes as well!
Media with Mrs. Hoglund 📚 Today we listened to one of Caldecott Honor-winning author David Shannon’s stories about his character, David! This one had a holiday twist! Preschoolers were excited to check out their first library books today! Ask us what we learned about taking care of these books from the SJ Media Center! 
“Jingle Bell and Stop”, by Carole Peterson introduced us to opposites (high/low, fast/slow), and helped us practice start/stop (important for self-regulation)! Preschoolers made their own Jingle Bell instruments with paint, pipe cleaners, and bells! J is for Jingle!