Ava in her Pre-K Gymnastics Class

Ava started attending a 30 min Tiny Tots class 1x a week at Nat'l Gymnastics Training Center across the street from our neighborhood in late January. Now that she is over 3.5yrs old she is attending their pre-k program 1hour /1x wk. She really likes her two coaches and the kids in her group are 3.5 to 5yrs old. I believe she is the second youngest in the class and I really like this and the fact that her class happens to be a class with two coaches because the coaches have time to be more hands on and better at spotting them. She also is benefiting from watching how the older children perform their skills and following instructions. Ava does get side tracked, but for the most part of the hour she is eager to participate in all the excercise routines. They practice hoping backward, forward, spin jumps on the trampoline, balancing on the balance beam, monkey bars, rock climbing, parallel bars, cart wheels, somersaults, stretching, skipping, crab crawls, climbing bars, hand stands against a wall, climbing ropes and of course jumping into the foam pit at the end of class. During the summer a lot of families pull their kids from their yearly recreational activities because of vacation trips and participating in other sports, ie swimming. We are keeping Ava in her class for as long as she enjoys it. During the month of July she will be participating in a dance class. It will be 1hr / 1x week, but only for the month of July.