Michael and Ellie's Gymnastic Olympic Day

Adam, Michael and Ellie have been doing gymnastics this whole school year. Michael and Ellie are in a program called Fundamental gymnastics in which they separate them into classes according to age and expose them to all the different gymnastics equipment and teach them basic tumbling. As they do this, their body becomes more flexible and they also become stronger in other things they do. I have really noticed this past year that my kids have become a lot better at cartwheels and flips.

At the end of each school year, they have a special day when you can actually walk into the gym with your child and they go to different stations and show you what they have been doing. We like to go to this because it is a good time to show Joe what the kids have been doing since he is always at work when we go to gymnastics.

Some of the different things that they do are walk and crawl and somersault on the balance beams:

Practice somersaults and cartwheels and flips:

This one is called the log roll:

They also learn trampoline jumps and flips- Michael especially likes this one they flip into a pit of foam bricks.

They also get to climb a climbing wall and a rope and a rope net. The boys really enjoy these, Ellie doesn't like them as well.

They work on the bars, doing pullups and pull overs and such (I never did gymnastics so I just watch and don't really know what everything is called).

At the end they are given gold medals. These medals mean a lot to my children and sometimes it is like pulling teeth to get them from them to put them in the scrapbook!

Good job Ellie and Michael, you are doing great at gymnastics!