Picture Day last Friday had us delaying our Circle Painting until today! Love all their creativity! ⭕️ Holding and manipulating the painting tools also gave us practice building hand and finger strength!
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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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God Made Me: I Can See
We thanked God for the gift of sight, and took a walk to see all he made! The children used their Blue Binoculars to view many amazing thing God has made for us: tree, birdies, ladybug, grass, plane, sticks, sun, grasshopper, Mrs. Truskowski, ants, leaves, Mrs. Beyer, plants, sky, friends❤️ Beautiful!
Wow! Another board filler! This requires patience (due to the closeness of the beads they get knocked over constantly!), tenacity, and endurance! Super!👏👏
Teddy Bear Graphing still draws a crowd!
B is for Bee 🐝. We have started working on our ABC Letter Book pages! Each page involves tracing a sentence, forming the letter, and completing the picture!
Great job preschoolers!
BLUE Day💙 Preschoolers enjoyed singing and spelling our new color B-L-U-E song today to the tune of “The Farmer in the Dell”. We added the words to our special project! This whole group activity had the children assembling their own Blue Puppet that required listening and following directions!
They just keep the kindness coming! Helping a friend open their snack container, helping a friend feel comfortable walking in to school, and including others in their play!❤️❤️❤️
Happy 5th Birthday, Makenzie! Mrs. Pindral read, The One and Only Sparkella, about letting your own light sparkle!
Seeing is believing! Look at the list this group brainstormed!👏
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! Preschoolers painted pieces today that they will use to create their own ant models on Thursday!
We discovered that ants each have 2 antennae’s or feelers on their head! They use them to smell, communicate, and greet each other! So cute!
Our giant Bugs puzzle! How many ants did you find? 🐜
Feed the Ants! Love integrating fine motor with our lessons! Preschoolers learned that ants have mandibles that are used for carrying food, and eating! Tweezers were the perfect tool for simulating the side to side action of the mandibles!
We learned that ants have 3 body parts and 6 legs, 3 on each side! The legs are all connected to the middle part of the ant, the thorax! They did an awesome job illustrating that on their job cards! The children were surprised to discover that an ant’s skeleton is on the outside of his body! Not like ours at all! 🐜
Preschoolers enjoyed learning that each ant in the ant colony has a job! They all work together as a team, just like we do in our classroom! After listening to each job’ description, they cast their vote for the job they would want in our own ant community!🐜 Looks like a great balance of work!
