PE - Gymnastics today!

The kids were delighted that PE today at the Y was all about gymnastics.  I've been keeping the girls home from church because of their coughs, but felt it didn't matter for PE since the other kids are there coughing.

They warmed up with stretches and then moved from the gymnastics area into this small room with a gymnastics obstacle course...

They began at the bar - holding themselves up with their arms...

Later hanging by their arms with their legs touching the bar for 3 seconds...

 

D kept telling the instructor he could hang for 300 seconds...

After the bar they moved onto somersaults down a "hill" mat...

 

C watching...she was really good for the entire 2 hours we were there...not napping, of course.  :o)

 

After the somersaults, the kids went down a slide (you can see it in the back of the picture through the mirror) and then had to walk across balance beam stepping over the beanbags.

 

K dancing after coming over to me to get a drink from her water bottle...

 

They spent about 30 minutes in the small room doing the obstacle course and hanging from the bar.  Then moved back into the big room with the large gymnastics equipment.

D walking across the "low" balance beam in the gymnastics room...

 

D walking across the "high" balance beam in the same area...he kept telling the instructor he could do it all by himself.  I have no doubt he could, but she had to hold on for safety reasons and I had to explain that to him later.  He was practically running across the beam...

 

K making her way across the "low" beam...

 

Then going across the "high" beam...no fear!  I was impressed!

 

Her "dismount" at the end of the "high" beam...

 

The last hour of the PE is always free-play time in the gym.  Today there was a large ball out and the kids kicked, rolled and pushed it around for awhile and also had a blast on the scooters - their favorite!