Gymnastics

It's hard to get good pictures of Kyla at Gymnastics because you can't use a flash, so I just took these using my phone.


Kyla absolutely loves her gymnastics class. It is only once a week for an hour, but she talks about it all week and sings her gymnastics song everyday! She has such a great time each day that we are at class and is getting better and better and gymnastics every class as well. It is hard to believe how much she has learned since January and how much more strength she has now. Her favorite things to do at gymnastics are the high bars and the high beams. She can walk across the regular balance beam without help and can walk across the hign beam by herself as long as you are holding her hand to catch her in case she falls. On the high bars Kyla can jump from the mat and grab onto the bar and then swing and land on her feet. She is very strong and can really grip onto the bars good. She also is learning how to spin around on the bars.

Kyla also loves all of the routines and activities they do on the mat. She is great at doing tuck and rolls (somersaults), straddle rolls and backwards rolls. She can almost completely do the splits and she loves all kinds of jumping activities (jumping and spinning, jumping in a tuck...). She also learning how to do handstands and cartwheels, at her age they learn basically how to do a handstand by doing a donkey kick with their head on the mat and cartwheels by putting their hands on a mat while jumping over it.

Her class ends in two weeks and then she will start the summer session. She is going to have busy Saturdays this summer, she will have gymnastics at 9 a.m. and a painting class at 10:30 a.m.