Arr Me hearty’s!

Welcome to our newest theme ‘Make Believe’!

Join us on an a magical quest to the land of fairies, superheroes, pirates & princesses. Grab your fairy wings 🧚🏻 & super hero capes 🦹🏼‍♂️ and come climb, swing, roll, bounce and balance with us!

Make believe is a great theme to stimulate the imagination. By linking the gymnastic movements to magical stories, your little one will build a natural association, making it easier to commit movement instructions to memory for use in the future.

This theme we are spending our time on the Tumbl Trak, beams and parallel bars.

Tumbl Trak will give us the chance to jump, fly and land like fairies, then climb through the pirate ship to search for buccaneers. Our Kindergym challenge is to steal the pirate treasure without being caught, but it will be a rough getaway - over waves, a quick spy at the lookout, then one more wave to slide down to store the gold! This quest will feel adventurous, but our success at the end will build our confidence!

Step into a Disney story book as we head over to the Beams this week. We will climb up the net like Mowgli, swing on the rope with Tarzan and carefully balance along the beams as prince’s and princesses.

At the Parallel Bars we will release our inner super kid. Take on the challenge of climbing over the spiderwebs just like Spiderman, swing through the sky, and roll like a ninja.

Movement Matters

Does your little one love to climb? In this theme we are doing plenty of it.

During the Make Believe theme, gymnasts will scale a tower and work their way up ladders, over waves, across the cargo net & more.

Climbing is awesome! It makes our hands and legs strong, increases grip strength and helps children learn to evaluate and take appropriate risks in order to move safely and with confidence. While it might seem simple, the alternating motions children use to climb helps to develop bilateral coordination. Did you know that this means both the right and left hemispheres of the brain are used in cooperation and this can help children to effectively complete more complex tasks left to right tasks such as reading and writing.

Our little gymnasts love to climb! Who doesn’t ? 

Research reveals that climbing is among the most important types of play for overall development. As well as making us strong, climbing helps build spatial and directional awareness and also boosts physical skills such as balance, coordination, and agility. It also assists our cognitive functioning - the same skills involved in solving puzzles and using logic are in play when it comes to climbing.  Most importantly, climbing in early childhood using both hands and feet, facing a variety of inclines, heights, and distances between platforms all contribute to creating an “I can” mindset, which we love seeing develop in children as early as possible!

More on Imagination

At Aerodynamix we are passionate about creating an environment that encourages imagination! 💡

Imaginative play encourages children to explore possibilities and can help to remove barriers that limit thinking because it stimulates ideas and inspires solutions - a skill that is indeed one to hold on to for life! Structured, prompted and free play helps to fuel imagination and create the sense of fun that your child looks forward to each week, so ,whenever possible, let the children take the lead and watch with interest as they re-purpose items and test out different ways to get things done.