The Roar - Issue 9
Hello!
We have a very special edition of The Roar for you this holiday season, celebrating some of our wins, best articles of the year AND some free printables for your little ones. Most of all, from all of us at Teach Your Monster, thank you for your continued support and love we've received, through our emails and game reviews - it's so great to get a measure of some of the impact we are having in your lives. A very happy holidays to you all and we wish you the best New Year yet!
Teach Your Monster — Wrapped!
Wow, look at all that social impact! This is all thanks to YOU – for playing, sharing, and supporting Teach Your Monster by purchasing the app. As a not-for-profit, every penny goes back into creating even more amazing games and advancing our mission to give millions of kids the best start in life through learning, fun, and play. Thank you.
Monster News
This month we've decided to highlight our most popular 3 articles of the year, just in case you missed them...
TEACUPS - A Reading for Pleasure Acronym
Reading for pleasure is choosing to read what you want based on your own interests and preferences, without the pressures of being graded, assessed or marked on ability. In this article, we discuss how we used Reading for Pleasure strategies to inform our game Reading for Fun.
An interview with Number Skills Illustrator, Matt Ox!
We have loads of fantastic people here at Teach Your Monster contributing to all our wonderful games. In this behind-the-scenes exclusive interview, our Number Skills Illustrator Matt Ox tells us all about working on games, maths and his most harsh critics - his kids!
Social Stories to help with tricky emotions
Social stories have many different uses all focused on healthy social development. When used to depict and display challenging emotions, social stories give children the language to identify, speak about and develop emotional self-regulation strategies.
Colouring Time!
Two free printable posters!
Get those little ones colouring in with our Monster festive posters. We've got one with a bigger image and thicker lines for smaller fingers, and a more complex one for confident colourers. Print, colour and stick it up for festive monster fun!
Links we love!
Penguin shortbread
We thought these little penguin shortbreads are the cutest - and downright tasty too.
Santa tags
If you celebrate Christmas, these present tags are just adorable and super easy for little hands to make!
That's it for this year!
We're all very much looking forward to seeing you in 2025! A very happy new year to all our monster fans out there.
Happy roaring from,
The team at Teach Your Monster HQ