Preschoolers used a bag to contain their egg and materials.
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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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Ready to test their designs!
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall!
Preschoolers all joined in to give the nursery rhyme prompt as their friends tested their egg enclosures off our brick wall!
After Humpy’s “fall”, preschoolers retrieved their bag and examined their egg for any cracks! 🥚
Loved the cheering and support received for both the successful and not-so-successful attempts❤️
Our engineers designed 7 egg enclosures that protected Humpty Dumpty in his fall! We used this opportunity to discuss what we could do differently to protect our other eggs. Preschoolers had some great ideas: more materials bag to protect the egg, making sure the egg doesn’t shift from it protection as it falls, more soft materials in egg enclosure, egg needed protection all over instead of just on bottom of egg enclosure.
Outside playtime with our Prayer Buddies☀️
Monday is Center Day in Preschool 3!! Our egg theme today, started with our Easter Egg builders! Preschoolers picked a card, and created it by matching the top and bottom colors! Matching is an early math skill that has the children identifying and describing the relationship between items! This also proved to be an awesome activity to help develop fine motor control and eye hand coordination!
Love, love this! Mrs. Malham made Easter Egg designs with glue onto wax paper. Baking soda was dusted onto the glue. The children then used pipettes to drop their mixture of vinegar+watercolors onto their egg designs! So, so cool! Please try this at home! You will love it! The reaction of vinegar combined with baking soda is awesome on its own, but the “painting like” technique we used today one the gluey eggs was amazing!
Easter Egg ABC! Preschoolers matched uppercase letter clips to their ABC line. Matching letters requires preschoolers to use visual discrimination as they identify shapes of each letter!
Easter Egg Art with Mrs. Truskoski! We love the stained glass quality this egg will have as it hangs in our classroom window! Preschoolers used fine motor skills to pick up and place individual squares of paper on their egg!
Thank you so much , Mrs. Malham, for being our Center Helper! We hope you had as much fun as we did!❤️
Falasiko visited today as we reread a preschool favorite, “The Bear Snores On”, by Karma Wilson. Afterwards, we had fun using the characters in the book to teach phonemic awareness skills such as onset & rime, and rhyming! 🐻
Preschoolers delivered special treats to their Buddies today to wish them each, “Good luck” during Aspire testing this week❤️
Along with a special Dr. Seuss poem, preschoolers gave their buddies a Cutie Orange and Smarties candies!
Rain, rain. Go away. Pick an umbrella. What does it say?
Our literacy circle today had us developing oral language skills as we repeated our prompt. Preschoolers took turns to “read” the lowercase letter by making its sound. Their friends identified the sound and traced the corresponding uppercase letter on their recording sheets!
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