Monday, April 6, 2009

Free Play at Gymnastics





We decided to spend an hour at the local gymnastics center. So did everybody else. But I was amazed at how nice everybody was. The most coveted toy was the trampoline; no surprise there. What did surprise me was this: everyone wanted to bounce, jump and twirl on the trampoline and yet the children, all ages, self-monitored their time on the trampoline. I don't think one child spent over three minutes on the trampoline!! Every child decided when their turn was over. I think the shortest turn was 30 seconds. I was completely amazed at how great the children were. Brenna and Noah had a great time. At the end of the hour, Noah said, "Can we do that again tomorrow?" Wow!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Did you jump too? rings?? Bars??