I haven't started any classes for Kaira yet,so thought of exploring few options for her to attend once in a week before she will start her School next year. Many of my friend's toddlers attend it and heard a good review about My Gym.
When I was invited by My Gym City Square to attend the trial classes I was more than happy to take Kaira for the session and let her have some experience with other kids of her age.
My Gym was created in United States in the year 1983 by 3 people, utilizing their experience in the field of sports, dance, early childhood development, kinesiology and gymnastics, they developed a program and facility where children actively paticipate in variety of structured, weekly physical education classes to gain social skills and self-esteem.
My Gym Singapore was established in 2004 and it is developed to help children age 4 months thru 10 years of age develop physically, cognitively and emotionally.
Kaira's first day at My Gym
She was busy looking around at the new place as this was the first time she attended any class. Don't know whether you all will agree but as a parents have a lot of expectations from our kids to perform their best when with others. Remember one thing all kids are different and so does their capabilities. With my two kids they both have their own strengths or positive traits and they don't behave or perform in a way they do in the comfort of their home.
What we can expect from kids at the first day of any class:-
- Don't like the place
- Clinging on to you forever
- Crying
I was prepared for all these before coming for the class and I am glad even though she was a bit clingy but she was more interested in the play.
Since it was her first day and first class, the teachers were helping kids to be just at their own comfort and not really forcing them to sit and listen .
Kaira attended the Gymster class for toddlers from 19 months to 3 years old. Each class is for an hour and the class schedule is handed over to parents to select the weekday or weekend class depending on the centre and availability.
The Class starts with circle time and everyone sat around the red circle . She sat with her dad to do some activities and the first one was introduction round and teacher asked every kid their name and rest of the class will greet them.
It goes like "Hello Kaira ! Welcome to My Gym"
I have captured the various activities performd over the 3 weeks or 3 classes and some of them might be same but then based on my experience how Kaira performed and improved over the lessons.
Learnt to balance herself on one leg holding a flag .She did it pretty well as a first timer!
Kaira enjoyed a headstand and a turn here which she did a couple of times and was quite excited to do this activity.
Some free playtime to play along with other friends in the class which lasted for 5-10 minutes. After playing they learnt to put back all the toys in the toy box.
Her second trial class and she was in love with her My Gym T-shirt and happily enjoying in the class.
According to her this is a rolling wheel and she actually want to rotate it as well.
Here they had to walk on a plank and learnt balancing skills, at first she was slow while walking.
She went again to try it on her own and enjoyed it too. Probably she tried again to built her confidence and good thing that teachers really helped them.
Kaira loved this ball pool and every time she got the chance she would jump inside to play on her own. I was quite happy because initially she hold herself back.
This ball pool was actually quite a fun with a slide and Kaira was pretty confident to do on her own.
Another activity where they learnt to move on a flying fox and a trapeze she was little afraid of it and didn't like itmuch though she loves to climb on it but not like the idea to swing.
I have noticed that kaira actually enjoys trying the activities on her own and exploring the ways.
Another activity to balance a ball with your one leg and she did pretty well balancing activity.
All of them enjoyed this free playtime to create their own stuff but it is quite less i feel but then class is for an hour only.
Kids listening to the next activity as instructed by the teachers and all of them very patiently sitting.You may notice that all of them are sitting close to their teacher and not parents so they are coming out of their comfort zone as well.
Look we have beauties admiring themselves and dancing to their own tunes.
In this class they had to play Hula hoop and all the rings were on each other and their teacher.
She really loved walking on this magic carpet without any support and it was more like crossing a bridge! Yippee:)
Somemore stunts on her own to strengthen her muscles and she has got strong grip to hold easily.
Did you notice that she was the one who was least interested sitting on the swing and now she atleast got some confidence to sit here.
Overall I find the class quite good for little ones learning skills and development-
-Greet each other
- Follow a routine
- Performing set of activities every week to excel in it
- Playing with different toys and helping them to learn sharing
- Exploring their favourite activity during free playtime
- Building their muscle strengths
- Coordination and balancing
- Helps to build social skills , self-esteem and confidence
- Listening and following instructions
You can refer to the below links to know more about the classes and if you wish to celebrate a birthday @ My Gym.
Thank You to my teachers for helping me learn and enjoy at My Gym !
