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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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Welcome to Our Bunch!

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“God Made the Earth”. Preschoolers began this special project today by dot marking coffee filters blue and green. They then sprayed water on the filter which made the colors blend together! We look forward to finishing these on Wednesday for our special Religion wall.

We love games! Shape Spin & Trace was an awesome game that incorporated important skills such as identifying & naming shapes, and tracing! Preschoolers spun the spinner, named the shape, and traced the corresponding shape in their paper! Great math concepts!

Our threading station had preschoolers picking colorful “flowers” to thread on matching colors of beads! This began lots of Math conversations about size of beads (longest, smallest), and 3-D words such as cube & cylinder! We love threading for the fine motor practice, but more importantly that eye-hand coordination!

Play-do is an awesome medium for helping to build strength in our hands & fingers! Manipulating, rolling, pinching, and squeezing develop those fine motor skills we need to form letters and numbers!

Discovering geometric shapes with parquentry blocks!

Thank you, Mrs. Senatore, for helping us with Centers today! Hope you had as much fun as we did!

Congratulations, Madeleine, on losing your first tooth!

Phone Number Fun ☎️ We discussed the importance of learning our phone number, how to enter it, and how to read the numbers in a left to right sequence. Preschoolers “read” their phone numbers left to right, and then created these special phone cards to help us practice their phone numbers at home by cutting and gluing all the digits! As we read the number, we can touch the corresponding key in the telephone 📞☎️.

Planting seeds of kindness 🌹

We took a minute to look at all the tulips we created in Friday! Preschoolers were so surprised to see so many displayed on the Secret Agents of Kindness’ lockers! We learned the first graders were all asking Mrs. Shute how they got there!🌹

Left and Right! We chatted today about the reasons it is important to learn our left from our right! Preschoolers realized how uncomfortable it would be to wear shoes on the wrong foot, the difference in our names & phone numbers if we read them right to left, the importance of putting our right hand over our heart for Pledge. “The Left And Right Song” had us differentiating between left /right by pointing and naming objects that were on either the left or right side of the line! Combining music and movement helps new concepts stick in our brain!

Left/Right armbands gave us Super Power skills to help us remember our left/right for “The Hokey Pokey”! We drew an imaginary line down the middle of our body to learn that everything on the left side of the line (arm, leg, ear) was described as left arm, left leg, left ear. Same with the right side of the line! We used these descriptions as we sang and danced “The Hokey Pokey”! So fun!

Peek at Our Week April 15 - April 18, 2019

Preschool 3

Religion - Special Lesson: Easter. On Easter we celebrate the new life of Jesus. The children will rejoice in new life. They will be familiar with some Easter symbols. The children will be grateful for the gift of life.

Music with Mr. Showstead

Media with Mrs. Hoglund - Fairy tales.

Language/Literacy - Alphabet recognition: matching letters. Sequencing and recognizing letters in our name. Phonological awareness: songs, rhymes. Developing hand strength/dexterity. Letter review: Aa-Uu.

Math - Patterns: matching. Counting/number sequencing. One to one correspondence. Recognizing/naming basic shapes.

Preschool 4

Religion - Special Lesson: Easter. On Easter we celebrate life. The children will identify Easter as a feast of life. They will know that Jesus gives us new life. The children will thank God for life. Seeds Lesson: We welcome Jesus. The children will identify ways to welcome. The children will: recognize the welcome people gave to Jesus on Palm Sunday. They will recognize the meanings of the words priest, Mass, and Pope. The children will dramatize welcoming Jesus to Jerusalem.

Visit with our Prayer Buddies - Preschoolers and their Buddies will enjoy creating Easter Egg art, and reading Easter stories.

Science - “What is hatched from an egg?” What kind of animals hatch from an egg? Children will learn some animals are born live, and some are hatched from an egg. They will be introduced to this rare word, oviparous, which means egg-laying. The children will categorize animals accordingly.

Literacy/Language - Phonological awareness: rhyming, producing letter sounds, comparing ending sounds. Oral language: participating in a discussion. Alphabet knowledge: matching uppercase/lowercase letters, writing letters. Left to right progression. Letter Review: Aa - Uu.

Math - Recognizing numbers 1-12. Sorting by size. Writing numbers. Patterns. Recognizing/differentiating: left and right. Phone a-Friend: recognizing, sequencing, and memorizing series of numbers. Geometry: shape review.

Music with Mr. Showstead

Media with Mrs. Hoglund - Fairy Tales.

Preschool+Plus

World Travelers - “To infinity and beyond!” Preschoolers will have an out-of-this-world, month long study of Outer Space! This intergalactic unit will introduce the children to concepts and features of space, including aspects of an astronauts job! They will begin awareness of the Earth, Sun, and Planets, and learn facts that are unique to each. Preschoolers will be introduced to new vocabulary such as rotation, orbit, and axis. This week’s focus has us learning characteristics of each planet! Preschoolers will learn fun facts about the planets in our Solar System. They will enjoy working in teams to create 3-D models of these planets using paper mache.

Gym with Ms. Nash’s Class

Our sensory table continues to be full of surprising materials each week! Fun tweezers and mini bunny eraser manipulatives this week help develop fine motor skills, too!

Prayer is how we build our relationship with God! Our Fizzy Science showed preschoolers how God “bubbles” over with love for us every day!

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Name: Mrs. Kris Beyer
Position: Preschool Teacher
Email: Send email
Phone: (847)362-0730 x304