Today was the first class of the summer session. We decided that since things are pretty busy in the summer, we would just do one gymnastics lesson each week instead of two. Unfortunately, since Miss Angelina isn't teaching the little kids lessons in the summer we had to get a new teacher. She was okay; her name is Miss Kristen. Isla and Abigail from Peanut's last session were there today, and Ginny is supposed to be back soon - her mom just had a baby last weekend. It was great for Mackenzie to see friends! There were also a couple of new faces - Jackson and Anna Joy (mom was Lisa, I believe). Miss Kristen seemed to take a liking to Mackenzie so I think the session will be a pretty good one. We miss Miss Angelina though!
The class started out with some stretching and positions. The kids worked on pike, tuck, straddle, and table top. Mackenzie did okay with the stretching and positions, but it was a slow adjustment since the class started with something new - they had never done that with Miss Lina before. Then they went to bars.
On bars, the class did forward roll like normal on the first bar, then they went to a set of parallel bars (like the guys compete on) and held on to kick the french fries off. Mackenzie held on and I was so proud! She did it all three rotations of bars :). On the bigger uneven bar set the kids just held on and swung. I only had to help Mackenzie hold on one of the three times - she's getting better!
From bars, the class did a floor rotation. They did forward roll down the wedge mat, and Mackenzie did her forward roll with only one finger of help from me! YAY PEANUT! After forward roll, the kids did a back walkover/handspring exercise with Miss Kristen. It was the same exercise they had done with Miss Lina so that was nice. Then the kids did cricket legs on the V-Sit mat, followed by donkey kick stations and a cartwheel. The kids went through the floor rotation three times also.
After floor it was time for trampoline. Miss Kristen had a different way of rotating through the trampoline so that all of the kids got to jump - it was a tough adjustment for the class, but hopefully they will pick up on how it works soon. Miss Kristen tried to get the kids to do legs out and in on the trampoline and pull up into tuck position, but Mackenzie didn't really try. She did do great on the seat drops though - that kiddo loves to bounce on her bum!
Then the kids went to the foam pit - but unlike in Miss Lina's class they didn't do anything down the tumble track. They just ran down and jumped in the pit. Mackenzie loved to play with the foam blocks - she like to say buh-locks! The class finished with a woody stamp on their feet and a flower stamp on their hand. Mackenzie got a high five and a hug from Miss Kristen too. She's so happy to be back at the gym after having a couple of weeks off!
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