SWEET PEAS
Sweet Peas is an educational gymnastics program designed to promote physical, social, and cognitive development in children 6 months to 5 years old. Early childhood provides important windows of developmental opportunity. Founded in educational gymnastics, the Sweet Peas curriculum focuses on age-appropriate gymnastics activities that foster coordination, balance, core strength, bilateral awareness, and flexibility. Taught in a social, collaborative environment, Sweet Peas provides important life lessons in self-awareness, courage, success, and friendship. The Sweet Peas curriculum is centered around excellent, progressive gymnastics training which incorporates color recognition, language development, spatial relations, music awareness, measurements, and counting skills. Sweet Peas learn how to listen to their teacher, follow instructions and wait for their turn. They learn to enjoy their own achievements and to encourage and applaud the success of their classmates.
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS
PRESCHOOL GYM
One Pea Two Pea
One Peas are ready to move! With their newly developing upright mobility (and sometimes a mix of both eagerness and hesitation), One Peas love to explore! One Peas are beginning to understand words and ideas. The active learning goals of One Peas promote neural development in the amazing one-year old brain. The One Pea’s curriculum is designed to provide enriching activities in a safe and fun environment. One Peas learn self-awareness and physical adaptation through developmentally appropriate gymnastics activities such as stepping, rolling, balancing, sliding and swinging. One Peas learn baby rhythm and sequencing through physical activities coordinated with music and prompts. One Peas learn to clap, step, count, stop and start, and repeat. Creatures of repetition, One Peas begin to recognize and anticipate routines in the One Pea lesson plans. They are beginning to remember what they have learned and they are excited to participate.
Two- year olds are AMAZING! Two Peas are gaining independence! The Two Peas program is designed to capitalize on the rapidly improving physical, cognitive and language development of two-year olds. Two Peas provides large motor skill and gross motor skill development with whole body activities in developmentally appropriate circuits. Two Peas learn to run with developing synchronization; step, hold and balance on alternate feet; roll forward, sideways and backwards on a wedge with a spot; transfer weight from feet to hands and back. Two Peas play (or observe play); interactively structured games with other low Two Peas classmates. They sing and perform physical motions to familiar songs.
Three Pea Four Pea
Three-year-olds are ready to go! Three Peas are gaining increased motor development, eye-hand coordination, and fine motor skills! Three Peas are also quickly assimilating language and are able to understand and independently follow basic instructions in gymnastics class. The three pea curriculum is designed to provide skill development on the floor, beam bars, and vault. Three Peas work on forward rolls, straddle rolls, and Three Pea cartwheels. They increase their balance with beam work that includes alternating forward kicks, squat holds, relevé walks, and beam crawls.
Four-year-olds are on the go! Four Peas can run, hop, climb and throw a ball. Their increasing coordination makes them faster and more deliberate. Their increasing strength makes them able to perform many new gymnastics skills. Their cognitive development is growing by leaps and bounds and they are able to interpret and remember learning objectives. Four Peas can recognize and name many letters numbers. They can count in unison and repeat simple stories and sequences.
Five Pea
Five Peas are ready to test their skills! Five-year olds have reached physical and developmental milestones that allow them to progress rapidly. With longer limbs, more refined coordination and stronger language skills, the Five Pea can run faster, climb higher and hold longer!
GIRLS GYMNASTICS
Girls Gym | 6-12yrs
Our recreational girls program offers classes for new and experienced gymnasts. This program emphasizes progress, skills, and safety so that your gymnast can become the gymnast she has always wanted to be!
Beginner | White & Yellow
Girls beginner is the perfect 50-minute class for beginner/advanced beginner gymnasts. Girls learn the rolls, jumps, swings, handstands, backbends, and cartwheels. They work on all Olympic events and spend time on trampoline and Tumble Trak. At this level strength, and flexibility are also introduced.