Well, its been an exciting couple of days here at Monarch Kids. The babies are growing up for sure! It's amazing how fast they change! New teeth, new foods, rolling over, grabbing feet, laughing... So much to keep up with, but man is it fun!
Next week a couple of my older kids will be here since they're off for summer vacation. We'll start off their break with a bang by playing miniature golf and going to the Littleton Historical Museum. I think I've blogged about this place before - it is an outdoor living history museum with animals, blacksmiths, old one-room school houses, barns, and much more. And its free! Its a beautiful place to take the kids for a walk and see some amazing things from our history. So we're looking forward to that for sure.
I've wanted to get outside more and go for walks and to the park, but it has been so incredibly windy lately! So hopefully it will let up here soon. And this weekend I'll be going to the store to purchase some flowers, plants and herbs for the kids and I to plant next week. What fun!
Thanks for reading - I'll write more later on this week!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Prepping for a Garden
Hello there friends!
Today I worked in the backyard and started preparing a spot for a garden. I love gardening so much and its also such a great activity to do with kids. I found this article that talked about different ideas for planting a garden with kids. It mentioned a "pizza garden", where you plant tomatoes, peppers, onions, basil...basically anything you would want to put on a pizza. Another idea they had was to plant a "rainbow garden". This would obviously have many different colored flowers and you could arrange them as a rainbow. How fun! I think we'll start with the pizza garden idea so that we can not only have fun planting the food, but also enjoy eating it! The area I'm using is a small plot of land which is great - I certainly don't want to bite off more than I can chew!
Well, thanks for reading. I'll keep you posted on the garden and other fun happenings at Monarch Kids!
Kendall
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
Today I worked in the backyard and started preparing a spot for a garden. I love gardening so much and its also such a great activity to do with kids. I found this article that talked about different ideas for planting a garden with kids. It mentioned a "pizza garden", where you plant tomatoes, peppers, onions, basil...basically anything you would want to put on a pizza. Another idea they had was to plant a "rainbow garden". This would obviously have many different colored flowers and you could arrange them as a rainbow. How fun! I think we'll start with the pizza garden idea so that we can not only have fun planting the food, but also enjoy eating it! The area I'm using is a small plot of land which is great - I certainly don't want to bite off more than I can chew!
Well, thanks for reading. I'll keep you posted on the garden and other fun happenings at Monarch Kids!
Kendall
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Long Time, No Write
Hello everyone -
It has been way too long since I've written in this blog - I'm so sorry about that!
One big reason why I haven't blogged is that my husband and I had a baby girl at the beginning of the year! We love being parents - it has blessed our lives tremendously. So I took some time off to spend with her before starting the child care back up again.
For a couple of months now, we've been back in full swing. I have another infant that comes everyday - he's 2 months older than my daughter. It's been a blast seeing them interact each day. For a while she didn't notice him at all, but now she really is starting to. Sometimes I'll lay them both down on a blanket and they just stare at each other and talk to each other. He's starting to roll over so he usually tries to roll to her and touch her. I'm teaching him about being gentle:)
What else can I share? I'm so thankful its getting warmer outside. Now we can start to go to parks and long walks in the afternoon. I also bought new outdoor play equipment for the older kiddos and they've been having fun with that stuff. I have a ring toss game that we like to play frequently. One of my older girls is becoming quite the accomplished hula-hooper! She can even go from around her head to around her waist to around her knees. Wow!
Well, thanks for reading and I'll be sure to blog more frequently now. I hope you all have a great Tuesday!
Kendall
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
It has been way too long since I've written in this blog - I'm so sorry about that!
One big reason why I haven't blogged is that my husband and I had a baby girl at the beginning of the year! We love being parents - it has blessed our lives tremendously. So I took some time off to spend with her before starting the child care back up again.
For a couple of months now, we've been back in full swing. I have another infant that comes everyday - he's 2 months older than my daughter. It's been a blast seeing them interact each day. For a while she didn't notice him at all, but now she really is starting to. Sometimes I'll lay them both down on a blanket and they just stare at each other and talk to each other. He's starting to roll over so he usually tries to roll to her and touch her. I'm teaching him about being gentle:)
What else can I share? I'm so thankful its getting warmer outside. Now we can start to go to parks and long walks in the afternoon. I also bought new outdoor play equipment for the older kiddos and they've been having fun with that stuff. I have a ring toss game that we like to play frequently. One of my older girls is becoming quite the accomplished hula-hooper! She can even go from around her head to around her waist to around her knees. Wow!
Well, thanks for reading and I'll be sure to blog more frequently now. I hope you all have a great Tuesday!
Kendall
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Merry Christmas!
Hi everyone -
I just wanted to write and wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Monarch Kids will be closed tomorrow and Friday and as much as I love all of my kids, I'm very excited for a couple of days off:)
Hope you all have a great holiday!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
I just wanted to write and wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Monarch Kids will be closed tomorrow and Friday and as much as I love all of my kids, I'm very excited for a couple of days off:)
Hope you all have a great holiday!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Cold!
Hello there -
If you live in the area, you know how extremely frigid it has been the past week! While we haven't been able to play outside due to the negative degree temperatures, that hasn't stopped our fun at Monarch Kids!
This past week we've done many fun activities such as swimming at the Castle Rock Recreation Center (the water felt great!), storytime at different libraries and fun crafts revolving around our theme this week which has been monsters. Next week we'll be going to the Children's Museum in Denver. I've never been there before and am really looking forward to exploring with the kids. Our arts and crafts theme next week is winter. Tuesday will be super fun as the kids and I will be making a gingerbread house. This is also another first for me - so I'll be sure to keep you all posted on how it goes:)
Well, stay warm and have a great weekend. Thanks for reading!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Child Care Provider
If you live in the area, you know how extremely frigid it has been the past week! While we haven't been able to play outside due to the negative degree temperatures, that hasn't stopped our fun at Monarch Kids!
This past week we've done many fun activities such as swimming at the Castle Rock Recreation Center (the water felt great!), storytime at different libraries and fun crafts revolving around our theme this week which has been monsters. Next week we'll be going to the Children's Museum in Denver. I've never been there before and am really looking forward to exploring with the kids. Our arts and crafts theme next week is winter. Tuesday will be super fun as the kids and I will be making a gingerbread house. This is also another first for me - so I'll be sure to keep you all posted on how it goes:)
Well, stay warm and have a great weekend. Thanks for reading!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Child Care Provider
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Happy Thanksgiving!
Hi everyone -
Today at storytime at the Castle Rock Library, the theme was centered around turkeys, eating and Thanksgiving. The kids and I had a good time listening to stories and singing turkey songs. My favorite story was called "I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie" - basically the same as the story of the lady who swallowed a fly. The kids loved this one!
After nap time we attempted a craft where you make a turkey out of painted fingerprints. This would be great for older kids but I quickly discovered that my one year old struggled with this. So instead we just had fun letting him fingerpaint however he wanted - it was a beautiful looking turkey :)
I hope you all have a great day tomorrow with family and friends. Enjoy the time off!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
Today at storytime at the Castle Rock Library, the theme was centered around turkeys, eating and Thanksgiving. The kids and I had a good time listening to stories and singing turkey songs. My favorite story was called "I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie" - basically the same as the story of the lady who swallowed a fly. The kids loved this one!
After nap time we attempted a craft where you make a turkey out of painted fingerprints. This would be great for older kids but I quickly discovered that my one year old struggled with this. So instead we just had fun letting him fingerpaint however he wanted - it was a beautiful looking turkey :)
I hope you all have a great day tomorrow with family and friends. Enjoy the time off!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
Friday, November 13, 2009
Parks, crafts and stories
We've had a great week here. The weather has been amazing - almost 70 degrees each day. So the kids and I have had fun being outside at the park, doing fun crafts and playing some new games that I bought. I blogged a while back about some of the old-fashioned games that I had as a child. The ones I recently purchased have been such a blast to play - it took me back to my days of playing with my grandma any time I would visit her. Games like Skip-Bo, Chutes & Ladders, Connect Four... So much fun!
We went to storytime at the Castle Rock Library this past week and had such a great time. It was packed! There was almost no room to sit anywhere - such a good sign that kids and their families are interested in reading, singing and being silly. The theme was hibernation - so most of the books and songs were about bears. The kids had a great time and didn't want to leave right away. So we played in the children's meeting room looking for different objects on the carpets and rugs.
That's about it from this week. Next week we'll be making toilet paper binoculars and placemats. I'm really looking forward to this craft because they'll get to take them home and maybe use them over the holidays! Should be fun.
Okay - have a great weekend everyone. Thanks for reading!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
We went to storytime at the Castle Rock Library this past week and had such a great time. It was packed! There was almost no room to sit anywhere - such a good sign that kids and their families are interested in reading, singing and being silly. The theme was hibernation - so most of the books and songs were about bears. The kids had a great time and didn't want to leave right away. So we played in the children's meeting room looking for different objects on the carpets and rugs.
That's about it from this week. Next week we'll be making toilet paper binoculars and placemats. I'm really looking forward to this craft because they'll get to take them home and maybe use them over the holidays! Should be fun.
Okay - have a great weekend everyone. Thanks for reading!
Kendall Stark
Monarch Kids Childcare Provider
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