Gymnastics!

Today Kyla started her gymnastics class! She has been looking forward to starting gymnastics ever since her trial class that we did in November. She has talked about it so much and over and over has said that she gets to start after Christmas. She was so excited on the drive to Aurora Kids and was screaming "Gymnastics" the entire drive. The trial class we did had around twenty kids in it, but this class had a really low enrollment and only has 5 kids! I am excited that there are so few kids since she will receive much more attention this way. The class is for children 2 1/2- 3 years old. Kyla is the youngest in the class and the only one who has not been in gymnastics yet, but she loves it and I think she will do really well in the class.

Once they turn three they are in a class without the parents in the room, so this class really focuses on trying to get the kids to interact with the teacher and the parents are just there for support when they need it. Kyla really wanted to make sure that I stayed close to her and even wanted to hold my hand for a lot of the class, but I think she will warm up quickly. The class started out by singing, introductions, safety rules and some warm ups and stretching. Next they played some games with the parachute which Kyla loved, she has never played with a parachute before and thought it was so much fun. After all of the warm up games, the gymnastics instructor showed them how to use everything in the gym and just had them explore while she came around and helped them with balance beam, bars, somersaults and more. The class ends with a little free play, basketball, a closing songs and playing with bubbles. Kyla had so much fun that she did not want to leave once class was over and she is already looking forward to going back next week.