Fun Teaching Tools

Hey there-
Here are some pictures of some of my favorite teaching tools at Monarch Kids Preschool. Enjoy!

Letter Muncher - This is probably one of the kid's favorite activities! I spread out the letter cards, and in a silly voice I ask for a certain letter to eat. Once the kids find that letter, they feed it to the muncher (there's actually a slit in the tennis ball!) and I make yummy eating sounds. They think it is SO funny!

We have "Calendar/Weather Time" each day at Monarch Kids. This is a great teaching tool for numbers, counting, days of the week, chronology, months, seasons, weather... We love it!

Here is our seasonal bulletin board. We'll be changing this soon to fit a Valentine's Day theme. So cute!

Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Preschool

Birthdays and Groundhog Day!

Hey there!
This past week we celebrated 3 birthdays! And of course we celebrated Groundhog Day - one of Miss Kendall's favorite holidays! :) Enjoy the pictures!

Here's a sorting activity we did - sorted candles based on color groups.

Another sorting activity - sorted candles based on stripes or solids.

Literacy activity - matched up lowercase and uppercase letters.

A cute groundhog craft to celebrate a great holiday! :)

Here is one of the b-day boys playing with play-dough!

Thanks for reading - have a great day!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Preschool

MLK Week

Hey everyone -
Here are some pictures from our week celebrating the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Enjoy!

Friendship Wreath - a super cool craft! The kids traced and cut out their hand prints from different colored construction paper and glued them onto a paper plate with a picture of MLK in the middle.

The kids decorated a picture of a dove - a symbol of peace.

Sorry - this one is turned on its side. But its a peace chain and each link has a different drawing on it based on something we learned from the week. For example, the orange link has a drawing of a bus on it from the Rosa Parks story.

Here the kids are posing in front of differently wrapped boxes. But the kids didn't know that each box has the same present inside - a sheet of red smiley face stickers. Lesson here...even though we all look different on the outside, we all are special and all are the same on the inside.

Thanks for reading -
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Preschool

Transportation Week

Hey everyone -
Enjoy the photos from Transportation Week at Monarch Kids!

Cute and tasty transportation snacks called "Airplanes in the Sky!" :)

Here the kids are making their stoplight crafts.

Each of the kids made a "Name Train" - and they got to be creative with the decorative backgrounds. Many of them put in train tracks, mountains, birds flying in the sky...

Here are the books we read this week.

Stoplight craft - so fun!

Have a great weekend everyone and thanks for reading!

Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Preschool

Christmas Week

Enjoy pictures from our Christmas Week theme this past week - I hope you all had a great holiday!

Books we read this past week

The kids sponge painted and decorated this tree - super cute!

"Rudolph's Bright Nose" - the red pom-pom is Rudolph's nose amidst the "snowy night" :)

Cute little craft the kids made for Santa

Adorable Christmas tree ornaments the kids actually hung on their trees at home.

Thanks for reading everyone! Coming up this week...Classic Children's Stories Week

Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Preschool

Polar Animals Week

Hey there -
Sorry for the delay in posting pictures from the past two weeks. With the Christmas holiday and sickness in our family, it just slipped my mind! Enjoy the pictures from a couple weeks ago - Polar Animals Week!

Books from the week

A couple cute crafts we did

The next 2 pictures are of the kids "swimming" and "fishing" like a penguin using a scooter - super fun!

Walking like a penguin :)

My Christmas Week post is coming soon!

Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Preschool

My Body Week

Hey everyone -
Enjoy pictures from "My Body" Week at Monarch Kids!

Such a cute craft - a giant bandage! The kids painted brown paint all over bubble wrap then pressed brown paper over the top, which made the impression you see. Then they glued a strip of paper towel down the middle and trimmed the corners. Looks pretty realistic, huh?

The kids LOVED giving these babies a bath! They used washcloths, shampoo, lotion, towels - and I actually put brown paint smudges on the babies that they had to get off too! So much fun!

Here are the books we read last week. The kids really like the Magic School Bus book because the bus went on an adventure in one of the classmate's nose and throat - so disgusting but fun!

Thanks for reading everyone - have a great night!

Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Preschool