This is a 45-minute – 1-hour class which provides a perfect combination of fun and fitness. This class includes pre- schooler level tumbling, flexibility, strength training, balance, coordination, and development of age appropriate motor skills. Children practice locomotor skills, such as jogging, galloping, skipping, hopping, chassés and stretching to warm up their muscles and create flexible bodies.

Children use child appropriate equipment and work on tumbling ( floor mats) and mini-trampoline.

Movement to music is also part of the curriculum!

The Grade R lessons cover:

• Crossing the midline (bilaterality)
• Spatial awareness, body awareness
• Important perceptual and gross motor skills for this developmental stage
• Strengthening muscle tone
• Improving concentration
• Balance and proprioception
• Stimulation of co-ordination and agility
• Rhythm

The basic physical and thinking skills of gymnastics, parkour and fundamental movement skills, promote not only strength, flexibility, co-ordination, and agility, but also develop important thought-processes and perceptual patterns that will be very important in your child’s other intellectual/physical pursuits that are necessary in both school and other sports.

Gymnastics has turned Isla’s world upside down—in the best way possible—building strength, confidence, and friendships that soar higher with every tumble and leap.
Wendilee Melle