Tumbling Tykes: Day 11

Today’s class started out with a warm up to get those little hearts a pumping and get those muscles ready for a workout! Afterward, Ms. Mo surprised them with playing with the parachute first instead of last!

Ms. Mo had them walk around in a circle and then they ran around holding the parachute… a whole lot of giggling going on!

Listening to Ms. Mo explain how to go under the parachute without hitting heads in the process… more giggling!

Squeals of delight were heard when the frog went flipping into the air!
I think this is their favorite thing to do!

The class also learned two new exercises; the tuck jump (no photos) off the dismount stairs and then learning how to do a backward flip.

Area’s of exercise were:
1. Tuck jump off the dismount stairs (a forward jump while grabbing your shins (quickly!)) before landing on your feet into dismount position
2. Balance beam work with ice cream scoops
3. Forward rolls without help (practice getting those legs up and over on their own!)
4. Cartwheel practice
5.Log roll and then finally the
6. Backward flip practice

Again different areas to work in while working on the different exercises that they have learned throughout class. Above, Isabel is working on the balance beam with “ice cream scoops“.

Each one of the kids whizzed through the exercises before heading back to Ms. Mo for the backward flip practice. Most of them not really caring about getting the exercise right, Isabel seemed to be in a hurry as well but at least tried to get the exercise done correctly before heading over to work on her backward flips again. I think with the class size growing it’s getting harder for Ms. Mo to watch and work on areas of improvement with each child like she used to before. However, she still is a great teacher and Isabel has really enjoyed the class and practices at home like she supposed to.

Working with Ms. Mo on her backward flip!

Ms. Mo calls the position of of their hands “pizza hands“.

Getting her legs kicked over is going to take a lot of “core” strength but I know she can do it. Good job, Girly!

 

Getting Dressed

This morning while I was emptying the dishwasher, I had asked Isabel to go upstairs and get dressed for me. Afterward she was to come back down to do her name writing practice for the day. When she arrived back into the kitchen I had to hold back the laughter bubbling up… Enjoy!

She appeared with a pink skirt and white t-shirt with the words “I ♥ Mommy!” written on front. Below the t-shirt, Lula was peering (securely) over the top of the waistband! Her hair was a series of loops and multi-colored barrettes scattered throughout her hair! (I’m still trying to figure out how she got the ones in the back, without looking!) The smile on her face was priceless!

I hurry and grabbed my phone and took this photo before she sat down (and removed Lula from her waistband!) to work on her writing.

On the mornings when she’s asked to get dressed on her own, it’s always fun to see how she’ll appear for the day! I ♥ You, Isabel!

BTW… by the time she was finished with her writing, her hair had slowly begun to fall down around her.

Palm Sunday

It’s the beginning of Resurrection week and the week begins with Palm Sunday. We had a great service at church today, the message “Purposeful Living…Understood” was from I Corinthians 9:15-27, followed by an on stage appearance with kids from kid zone waving palm branches.

Isabel with her palms after church.

Happy Palm Sunday from Isabel and I.

School News: New Life Springs From The Egg

When we arrived to class this morning, Mrs. W, handed me a photo packet from the class photos that were taken last month. I had almost forgotten about them and was eager to get home and see what they looked like.

After class we went out to lunch with Daddy downtown. So by the time we got home, Isabel couldn’t quite remember all that happened in school today…

They talked about Easter and the importance of the Resurrection of Jesus.

Isabel told me that she didn’t cut out the white (outer) egg part but only the purple part. I told her that she did a very good job.

The class again played in both the playground and the courtyard. Isabel says she likes playing in the courtyard better then the playground because it’s a lot easier to get away from the boys!

During free-play Isabel says she had a big surprise because the giant plastic egg (that they used in the kitchen) was filled with smaller colored Easter eggs. She showed me the egg at the end of class and it was filled up! She also mentioned that the lizard costume was back for them to play with and Zackary played with it today because Isabel says, “He likes to be a lizard!”

Continuing their discussion of new life and spring, they made tissue paper flowers.

I had Isabel model her’s. So cute!

The special helper today was Olivia. For show and tell Olivia brought a purple unicorn pillow pet. For snack Olivia brought to share fruit snacks and juice.

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Class photo.

School News: Empty Tomb

A drizzle of a morning was with us as we headed to school today and our morning wasn’t a very pleasant one and after class we had a long talk about the way we were acting before class began. Hopefully we wouldn’t have the same problem(s) again…

With Easter approaching fast and no school next week before Easter. This week, the class is going over the Easter story. Today they made Empty Tomb Crescent Rolls (such an awesome idea! I’ve got to try it!). To hear Isabel explain the recipe process was confusing and interesting to say the least. However, I didn’t want to wait until Friday to ask Mrs. W and easily found a recipe online (love the internet!).

The Bible story today was of the Matthew 27: 27-66, with focus on the resurrection of Jesus.

The special helper today was Lilliana. For show and tell Lilliana brought a Dora book. For snack Lilliana brought to share Scooby-Do® fruit snacks and juice.