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This class is designed for children 3.5 to 4.5 years old. There can be children younger than this in the class, if they have already participated in the previous level and passed their skill evaluation sheet. The children are without their parents in the gym. For most of the students, this is their first structured environment, and the first time they are away from parents with an adult they are not familiar with. Normally the first day of the child's class is learning that the gym and the teacher are fun. Many of our students are shy and clingy for that first day. Relax if they do not participate much the first time. Many times they go back home and try certain things that they saw in class, and feel better about participating the following week after practicing at home. Each week you will see an improvement, and normally by the last week of the session they run out for class ready to go. The children will learn basic tumbling skills and experience the bars, beam, and mini-vault with skills they can achieve at this age. This class also works on coordination and muscle strengthening skills, as well as introducing the children to a structured environment where the children learn to take turns, follow directions, and learn a rotation sequence through lots of fun obstacle courses and mazes. At the end of the session, your child will receive a skill evaluation sheet, which will let you know how your child is doing in the class with their gymnastic skills. Please do not take these sheets as a "pass" or "fail". This is a way of communicating to parents what their child's strengths and weaknesses are, so you may know what they need help with. Once they have passed their required skills in Hot Tots they may move on to our next level called Mighty Tots. |
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