The Little Gym at Home Parent & Child 19 months to 3 years Lesson 5

Today teacher Pippa and Benji the bunny are going to the beach. To join in the beach gymnastics, you can grab some blocks, books, some colourful scarves or tea towels and a beach towel. At the first gymnastics station your little one will learn a gymnastics performance routine with your scarves. This will help their creative and expressive movement but also teach them about sequencing and remembering what follows what. This will prepare their brains for maths one day. Feel free to join in with them mums and dads! At the second station we are teaching you how to spot and support your little gymnast through a front and backward somersault. We’re aiming to lay the groundwork for muscle memory during rotational skills. Kids learn through repetition and in turn our bodies understand what is happening when taken out of their normal vertical positions. The balance control centre kicks in to decide if it is them that is moving, or the earth around them. This will also provide a great upper body work out for parents! At the last station we have some beam balancing challenges on the beach towel. As we know, a good sense of balance is one of the most important requirements for all sports! Try to practise these every day! The class finishes with a fun subtracting activity song to ensure that we do cover all the three dimensions of learning that we are so proud to offer every week in our normal The Little Gym class.