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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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Media with Mrs. Hoglund! What a fun class we had filled with Halloween Fun! We were introduced to a wonderful children’s author, Cynthia Rylant, who loves including animals in her stories! Herbert’s First Halloween was about a pig!
We watched a super read along site, Storyline Online, and listened to Kristen Bell read another animal-themed Halloween Tale! Quackenstein had a laughing for sure! Mrs. Hoglund introduced us to pop-up books with Mosnster Madness! Happy Halloween, Mrs. Hoglund! 🎃🧡🎃
ORANGE Day Scavenger Hunt!🧡 Preschoolers independently searched their classroom to locate an orange item! They enjoyed sharing their fun finds with their friends! Pumpkins, dot markers, cars, bulldozers, paper, picnic tables, and guords! Oh, my!
Fine Motor Fun with Halloween Erasers! 🎃🐈‍⬛ 👻🦇
A super way to promote that important pincer grip! Preschoolers used one to one correspondence and eye hand coordination to trace pathways with Halloween manipulatives!
Preschool celebrates Orange Day! 🧡🎃🧡 We experimented with color mixing and discovered Red + Yellow makes ORANGE!
Orange Day Q-tip painting! 🧡 Using Q-tips promotes that important pincer grip we need for writing! We love dot painting for helping development eye hand coordination and focus!
Halloween Math Fun! 🦇. During whole group yesterday, preschoolers listened and followed directions to create their own unique handprint bat! Today we measured our bats, wing to wing, using non-standard units! Preschoolers practiced skills in one to one correspondence, cardinality, and writing numbers 1-20!
The early demise of our classroom Jack-o-lantern, gave us the opportunity to recreate the actions from today’s story! Just as Tim did in our story, we added our rotting pumpkin to soil, added a bit of water, and now we wait! What will happen? Ask your preschooler what we learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin!
Patience, communication, creativity, organization, and problem solving! Just a few of the skills use and engage in during building! We have loved to watch their building progress this year from single-stacked towers to more sophisticated structures!
We love cumulative stories for helping introduce and teach such skills as rhyming, sequence of events, and predicted patterns! This one was a perfect read for today! 
Preschoolers brainstormed their own rhyming words using characters from our story today! Wow! 🦇 👻 🧙‍♀️ 🦉