Gymnastics: Session 2, Week 7

There were only four kids in the class yesterday, so that was a nice change of pace from the 6-8 that we've been having.  Less kids = less chaos :).

Peanut did okay at lessons, but not as well as she normally does.  Maybe just a hard time adjusting back to the regular routine of having Mama come to class?  Who knows.

The group started out with some stretching and Peanut had a pretty tough time paying attention, so she needed a lot of help.  We've been struggling with active listening lately (I think the terrible 2's are starting to set in), so she was pretty preoccupied watching everyone else instead of the teacher.  She did the moves, though, if I put her into position.

After stretching was the beam.  Peanut walked all by herself across the low beam twice!  Yay kiddo!  She also walked backward and sideways on the high beam but she was not interesting in crawling or bear crawling up the inclined beam.

From beam was the bars rotation, we only made it through once before she needed a break.  She was starting to melt down a little and I decided it would be better to sit and watch then cause a scene.  The kids did a little extra station after the normal bars work and jumped into hula hoops before doing a back handspring on a different kind of mat that rolled across the floor.  Peanut and I practiced the back handsprings on an exercise ball at grandma and grandpa's house later because she found it fun :).

Then the kids did an obstacle course, with a climb up ladder, hop down, under a mini tunnel (which Peanut did!), donkey kicks/jumps over the American flags, and a back handspring exercise over the circle top mat.  We went through two or three times with the class.

Finally it was time for trampoline and with only four kids, they all got to stay on the entire time!  Afterwards, the kids did forward rolls down the tumble track - Peanut didn't need any help! - and then jumped in the pit.  Fun!

We also signed up for the next session, it looks like we'll have gymnastics Wednesday mornings starting in September.  Woo hoo!