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We help you EASILY preschool your child at home with movement, play, and imagination!

Movin' Monkeys provides preschool fitness classes in Bartlesville, Oklahoma incorporating dance, tumbling, sports, creativity, and more.

07/06/2024

Absolutely terrifying. Don’t raise littles without it.

26/04/2024

Ha! Here’s a new approach to learning your abcs!

16/04/2024

Would you want this house???? Yes or no?

17/03/2024

Do you have a little monkey who loves to move? 🐒

Here’s one of mine out climbing trees this morning! This is Emery. She’s the youngest of my five kids.

She’s nine now and too big for Movin’ Monkeys class. 🥲 (sniffle) But she was involved with them from the very beginning when I when I first started teaching Movin’ Monkeys in an upstairs room of my house.

She loved every second of our classes, and still begs me to do them when she’s not in school so she can come be a helper. 😁

She benefited so much from all that fantastic movement when she was little, the creative expressiveness, and the social time with our community of Movin’ Monkeys friends.

Now she’s a little spitfire on the soccer field and in life. And she’s convinced that one of these days I’m going to get her a pet monkey (is it just a coincidence she’s obsessed with monkeys like her mom?)

But right now I’m wanting to adopt her to someone else 🤣 because she just stepped in dog p**p while out climbing trees and the smell in our car is excruciating.

Hope you’re having a less smelly day than we are! Who’s one of your little monkeys?

12/03/2024

See this face?

It's the look of pure excitement. It's the look of joy. It's the look of learning. It's the look of doing real things in the real world.

Is your child looking this way enough? Because today it's harder than ever to get kids to find joy in the real world around them.

Youtube, TV, video games, even those little quick games on your phone.... all of these things are beckoning your child constantly. They're easy to consume, and your child doesn't have to put forward much effort to get a dopamine fix.

But real play and real adventures are out there. And the growth that comes from these experiences is worth a whole lot more than the quick hit they get from screens.

At Movin' Monkeys, we believe in bringing back childhood. The way childhood was meant to feel. We believe in movement, play, adventure, imagination, nature, community, and learning.

We're not anti-screen. But we believe in using screens intentionally in ways that support these higher ideals rather than distract from them.

So look at your kid today and ask yourself if they're getting enough real-world excitement in their life. Follow to learn how you can help your child make that face a bit more.

08/03/2024

Our preschooling system is the perfect hybrid of one-on-one teaching with your child and simple class videos that integrate right along with your teaching. Easy peasy!

26/02/2024

OK, I've got to get on my soap box for a moment.

Parents, don't think that "teaching" your child doesn't matter!

I recently received this comment on an ad I'm running for my at-home preschool program, Movin' Monkeys Preschool, saying we should just let kids free play and that's it.

Comments like these make me crazy. Because it's an all or nothing way of looking at things.

There is a huge movement right now promoting free, unstructured play for children. They say the best learning happens with free, unstructured play.

And they are absolutely correct.

I am 100% convinced that unstructured play is when the deepest learning happens.

BUT...

That does NOT mean that unstructured play is all your child should do.

Just because something is best does not mean we throw out everything else.

Are we really wanting to promote the idea that free play is all that matters and your role as a parent and "teacher" to your child doesn't matter? Does that feel right to you?

Should we just embrace the "Lord of the Flies" mentality and just leave our kids alone to do whatever? All the time?

Because guess what?

Some structured learning and exposure to new things is the most STIMULATING thing you can give your child.

It gives them new ideas. It helps them think and imagine new possibilities. It is the catalyst that spurs your child into more unstructured play.

You wouldn't believe the deep play that comes from a week of learning about jungle animals in Africa. Suddenly the child is going on their own imaginative safaris, making up their own jungle stories with blocks, making animal art, and more.

Are unstructured play advocates really suggesting that is a bad thing? That it would be better to not to have taught the child about the jungle?

No. For heaven's sake. Teach your child about the jungle. Teach your child about space. Teach your child about plants, dinosaurs, seasons, insects, weather, all the things.

Studies show that the children who do best in school are those that were exposed to more things.

Don’t let the world undervalue what you can do as a teacher for your child.

Teach your child things!

23/02/2024

A friend of mine captured this gorgeous photo of her child catching a leaf in the air, and I love it so much! I'm so glad she thought to stop and cherish the moment.

Remember to stop and cherish the little magical moments in your day with your child, even the simple, messy ones that aren't this pretty. 🙂

Photo by Caroline Hay

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