Peanut did great at gymnastics today!! The class started out matching Olympic gymnastics pictures - the different events, the gymnasts, etc. For the first time Peanut really tried to help me find matches and took them to the bucket on her own. We found quite a few matches and the warm-up was over quickly. After the intro activity the group did stretches together. Mackenzie did straddle, pike, tuck, and tabletop. She also was the only one in the group to touch her toes and jump like Miss Kristin asked.
From warm-up the class started on beam. They could hold American flags while doing beam if they wanted - Peanut held onto the flag for the first rotation of walking forward on the high and floor beams but then didn't want to hold it anymore. During rotation two they walked sideways and Mackenzie did great with that and then rotation three they did on their toes - she needed a lot more help with that one.
After beam was obstacle course/floor. The course was forward roll, jumps over flag strips/donkey kicks/baby cartwheels, pushup position, and back walkover. Peanut did two out of three forward rolls all by herself! The other time she was trying to do it but ended up rolling on her side instead. She was excited to do everything and was listening really well.
Following obstacle course we went to bars. Forward roll on the bar didn't go so well today, Miss Kristin had added a blue rolling piece to help with the forward roll motion and Mackenzie wanted to just play with it instead. She was not holding onto the bar at all during that station. We also did the kick the french fries and she did great with holding herself up on that one, and then they did squat/touch their toes on the low bar and then hang and swing from the high bar and she did that pretty well on turns two and three. She didn't hang on or touch her toes on rotation one.
Then the group did another floor rotation with cartwheels and forward roll. They went through twice and Peanut did her forward roll both times by herself. YAY!!!! I'm so proud of her and she was so excited.
Finally it was time for trampoline - Mackenzie still loves the trampoline. I actually really like the way Miss Kristin does the trampoline now because its much more even with the rotations. Peanut did some good seat drops but Miss Kristin was trying to get them to seat drop and then stand back up immediately and she wasn't getting that. It will all come in time I'm sure :). Another great day at gymnastics, I was so proud of Mackenzie and her listening skills!
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