We provide children with their own equipment or multiple stations. Children enjoy structure and moving with a purpose . This makes gymnastics, the disciplined activity that it is, a perfect setting to learn about movement. Preschool children have developed some fine motor skills but still need to control their large muscles . This means that most of our activities are large muscle or gross motor activities.
Children learn through manipulation and experimentation .
The trial and error process is important to their learning. The teachers at Jets praise the effort and challenge the child to reach their own goals. Children at this age have a short attention span . Movement activities in class are presented in short periods of time of about 10-12 minutes in length. As they mature they may practice fewer skills for longer periods, working more on refinement.