Music & Movement: Parade of Colors
We love music activities, such as this that help develop listening skills in a fun way! Preschoolers were each given a color, and listened to how each color should move! One of Mrs. Truskowski’s favorites!💙
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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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BLUE Day💙 Preschoolers enjoyed singing and spelling our new color B-L-U-E song today to the tune of “Farmer in the Dell”. We added the words to our special project!! This whole group activity had the children assembling their own Blue Puppet, and learning a new paper folding technique that requiring use of those fine motor skills!
The Button Box, by Margarette S. Reid, helped preschoolers gain an understanding of sorting by single attribute. We decided our own classroom collection of buttons could be sorted by color, shape and number of holes!
The children did an amazing job of working with their teammate to sort their collection of buttons!
Afterschool Club: Storytime STEAM! We loved today’s first class! After snack, Mrs. Truskowski read “If You Swallow an Apple Seed”, which was a fave with her 3 sons! We so enjoyed meeting all our new friends today!
Apple Jenga! The children were introduced to the materials they would use in their STEAM challenge! Each team received a bag that contained: 30 cube blocks, 12 keva planks, and 1 apple to complete their challenge! They learned how to use a Rainbow Ruler to measure their structure, and discussed good locations to choose for building in the classroom!
Loved their strategy and teamwork!
Preschool+Plus: Amazing Ants! We discovered ants have been around since dinosaur times! Building models of ants helped us apply what we learned today! Love the natural materials!
Feed the Ants! Love integrating fine motor skills with our lessons! Preschoolers learned that ants have mandibles that they use for carrying food, and eating! Clothespins were the perfect tool for simulating the side to side action of the mandibles!
We learned about that ants have 3 body part and 6 legs! Their antennae is used to smell, and communicate!
Preschoolers enjoyed learning that each ant in the ant colony has a job! After listening to each job’s description, they voted for the one they would want in our ant community! We sure will be safe!
“How would it be to walk with 6 legs?” Preschoolers did an amazing job of working together to navigate their 6 legs around the classroom! 🐜
This group worked together to assemble our Bugs giant floor puzzle! How many ants did you find? 🐜
Gummy Bear Science: our results! Loved listening to the children use language to express what they discovered!
Tuesday’s our focus is letter naming and identifying and building our Word Wall! Preschoolers did an amazing job naming letters and producing letter sounds today! WOW! They worked together to produce many B words for our Word Wall, including Bible, Blippi (one student even spelled this for me!), and Bluey! And it’s only our first month of school!
Beanbag! Music reaches a part of the brain that spoken words cannot! Our Beanbag song gave us lots of practice with listening and following directions in a fun gross motor activity! Preschoolers enjoyed it so much, we promised to do it again!
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