First day of Gymnastics!

Yesterday, our dd started her first day of gymnastics. She has been wanting to do this for the longest time. At first I thought she would be in a class of five other girls, but when we got there, there was only one other girl in the class. So there was a lot of attention given to both of them. First they got their carpets and did stretches. The picture here is something they do after each station that they practice. They do the "tada" stance. Then they started doing a lot of basic sections. They went to the springboard to start learning how to jump on the platform. Then they went and learned how to do somersaults. They did the normal tuck-down roll-forward, then from a leg-spread stance, then they did them backwards. From there they got to practice on the bar and dd loved hanging upside down like a monkey. She even got to walk on a balance beam. She really had a lot of fun. Once some additional girls got there for the next section, HJ and the girls got to play with a parachute. She loved hiding under it. Well, more about this later when Andrea gets to go next week. I'm sure it will be more exciting from her perspective then mine. :-)