E is for Elephant 🐘 Letter naming, identification, and sounds are important skills for our preschoolers this year! We build awareness and ability with fun games and activities!
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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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We use golf pencils at school to help promote that finger-thumb pinch we need to hold them correctly! Our other hand is our “Helper Hand”, and it holds the paper as we write and color!
E is for Exercise! We extended our math game activity by adding movement! Preschoolers picked a spider, identified the number, and led us in counting out that number of movements! Jumping was a popular exercise choice today! Ask us what other exercise options we had!
We’re in a book! Preschoolers loved reading our take on Brown Bear, Brown Bear! Love this for helping build naming skills of classmates!
E is for Elsa!
Media with Mrs, Hoglund 📚
We love meeting her collection of new characters every week! Today preschoolers were introduced to Grumpy Monkey! 🐵 We were surprised to learn there are over 14 different Grumpy books, and enjoyed listening to the newest one, Don’t Be Scared!
Letter Ee Week! What a collection of items today! eggs, excavator, Elsa, Everest, elephant, Eyore, envelope, Elmo, earring, earplugs…
Sensory Table Fun! Preschoolers enjoyed using pipettes, colanders, funnels, and scoopers with water today! They did an amazing job of sharing materials and taking turns!
More E day fun! Eye spy with my little eye! We broke this one out again due to popularity!
E is for Easel Painting!
Elephant Balancing! Preschoolers explored various ways to build a stable structure with these fun shaped blocks! 🐘
Eeeeeek, Spider for E Week! 🕷🕷🕷
We have begun working with simple patterns in class. Preschoolers built vertical patterns with orange and black spiders! Threading objects also gives us practice with eye hand coordination and concentration! Preschoolers “read” their patterns back to me!
Spider Write the Room 🕷
We searched the room for spider webs and counted the spiders on each! Preschoolers then used the recording sheet to identify the corresponding number to color! Great job practicing math skills! 🕷 🕸🕷
Light Table Patterns! 🕷 👻 🕷
What a fun way to build and extend patterns! The Halloween manipulatives were super!
Literacy Circle: Be Nice to Spiders, by Margaret Graham, introduces children to the importance even a small spider can have in our eco-system! We met Helen and learned how the animals at the zoo benefited by having her around! 🕷 An oldie but a goodie!
