Ethan's Tumbling Class

This fall I signed Ethan up for a Tumbling class through Arlington county. I didn't know what to expect but was SO pleasantly surprised! Ethan absolutely LOVED the class and did so well with it too--despite the fact that a lot of the activities were a little advanced for his age group. The class started each time with 5 or so minutes of "running time" to super fun music. The kids run in a circle and then we start our "stretching" activities. From there we go through 4 rotations--floor time activities, climbing, hanging & jumping and then the finale--the "pit". The pit is a huge hole in the floor filled with foam blocks about 6x6 inches in size.

Ethan learned to tumble in the class and does it at home now too. Plus, it really helped with his running and balance too. The challenging part was that there were 3 classes going on at once, each was at a different rotation. His class was the 2's but there was the 3's and the 4's there too. Ethan is very intrigued by older kids so it was a little difficult to keep him with our teacher Coach Kim. We are about mid-stream through the class now and he is really doing well with this! At the end of each class, the kids line up and sit down to get a stamp on their foot and a coloring page. Very cute! It's kinda hard to pick us out--Ethan has navy and sky blue stripes on and blue sweatpants and I have a pink shirt on.

Here are some pics of his time at the climbing & jumping rotation. There is a trampoline in the floor that the kids jump across. All the parents are sitting around that in the picture below.










Here's the pictures of our floor time at the beginning and stretching...










Here Ethan has just done his tumble--"TA DA!" and on the right--we are in the floor rotation. It changes each week--this week was hopscotch, balancing on the colored tape, climbing and jumping into the rings.