Nancy Tart: Writing for Life

September 8, 2020

Gym-N-Learn 2020-21!

Our gym has a wonderful program for little learners! We have a gym-n-learn program (info here) where preschool gymnasts 3 to 5 get to learn school readiness skills along with gymnastic instruction!

Lucas loves what he calls “gym-school” because they have “so much fun learning stuff.”

That’s about as descriptive as Lucas gets – unless he’s running the entire replay of the three-hour “Gym-N-Learn” day in the car ride home, for the next couple hours, and in bits as his sisters ask about his day. He almost doesn’t stop talking about a new skill learned, a new letter, the magic number for the week, or about a cool craft they did.

Our little learners also get to learn about order, safety, how to eat snack in a specific amount of time, how to stand in their line properly, how to turn on listening elephant ears, how to interact safely together during free time, how to treat their classmates with respect and friendship, and so many school readiness skills to help them have a great future experience in VPK or Kindergarten.

Lucas’ favorites are gym skills and craft skills (he gets to practice using glue, scissors, markers, crayons, and googgly eyes without making a mess) – Mom is really excited about the “we aren’t supposed to make messes but have to clean them up” part.

Come join us! If you know a potty-trained 3-5 year old who loves gymnastics (or needs to release overactive energy and express their equally active imagination) – send them our way! More littles equals more imagination, more learning, more smiles, and more fun!

~Thank you for reading!

~Nancy Tart (Coach Alice, to my little gymnasts!)