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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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Music & Movement today included my fave, “Pinocchio”, and a new one, “Encanto Freeze & Challenge” Preschoolers loved it!
Mondays are Letter Days in Preschool 3’s!
The children loved sharing their Letter C items today! And what a collection it was! Cup, cow, dip, carrot, cowgirl, Captain America, car, cookie…
The children were introduced to big books today with Mama Cat Has 3 Kittens, by Denise Fleming, and enjoyed this shared read!
Sensory Table: Color Sorting ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
Our family manipulatives and houses, and fluffy poms made this a fun one to visit today!
Letter Days preschoolers enjoy project time with Mrs. Truskowski! Our Cookie Monsters are just adorable! Post a pic of them tomorrow hanging in our classroom!
C is for Cookie! We loved Cookie Monster so much! He is one of the characters at our game table this week, Sesame Street dominoes! Which actually had to move to the carpet today to accommodate all our players! Was a great way to practice making sets, and critical thinking skills!
Game Table! C is for Cat! This group loves games! 
This week’s spin-and-sort had them using higher level math level skills too, such as 1more, 1 less, same as.
S’mores Letter Tracing! Activities such as this help our preschoolers learn how  letters are formed! Love the crushed graham cracker medium! Smelled delicious in here!
Fine Motor Station: Rock cleaning! Preschoolers discovered that a rock’s appearance changes when it gets wet!
Chris Van Duden in incredible at spinning imaginative tales for young readers! This was such a fun read today as the children made predictions about what they thought would happen to Mr. Magee and his little dog, Dee! So cute!
Rhyming text extra bonus ✔️
“Have you ever been in a camping trip?” Today during Literacy Circle we discussed some things we may see or bring on a camping trip! We then practiced segmenting some camping words, and sorted them by the number of claps (syllables) each had! We introduce many phonological skills through games, songs, and rhymes!
Morning Work: Trace the Path! 🌲 ⛺️ 🌲
Tracing helps build the foundation for writing letters and words! It helps build fine motor, concentration and focus, and visual spatial skills! Fabulous job today, preschool!
Music with Mr. Showstead: Toot, Whistle, Plunk, and Boom! 
A 1953 Disney animated short was a fun way for us to review the instruments we have been introduced to by Mrs. Showstead so far this year!
Trumpet (toot), recorder (whistle), guitar (plunk), and drums (boom).
A fun one for sure!