There are about 20 kids in each class, ages 3-5. They start with a group warm up: running in a large circle, stretching, and learning terms like tuck, pike and straddle. Then they are split into three smaller groups based on ability, I think. Each small group then goes to a section of the gym and they work on skills at each section for about 10 minutes. It's well organized.
Tim can do a forward roll or somersault pretty well on is own if he's on a sloped mat. He needs help with his backward roll, but he knows what to do with his chin and hands. With both, he needs to work on controlling the tuck a little more, but that will come with time and practice.
Tim loves to jump off of furniture, stairs, rocks or anything else that presents a ledge and landing area. He started to climb before he could crawl. It has long been our hope that a class in gymnastics would give him some control of these activities so that he can minimize injuries. Fingers crossed.
The problem may be that instead of teaching him control, he just learns new daredevil stunts. Hanging from bars is new to him, but he's already transferred this to hanging from anything he can reach. Any day now, I'll catch him hanging like this from the bar counter. At least it's carpeted.
Each month, the directors choose a theme. Last month was dinosaurs and this month is insects. In this video, Tim is supposed to cross the balance beam like a caterpillar (on his hands and feet). On the other beams, he was a fly flapping his wings and walking tip-toe, and a bee, flapping his wings and walking backwards.
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There are almost an equal number of boys and girls in the classes. This is the only time he's been in a group without any other boys. It doesn't seem to make a difference to him. The girls fight to stand next to him in line. And so it begins...
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