GYM TOTS 1 (13m-23m)
Gym Tots are ready to move!
With their newly developing upright mobility (and sometimes a mix of both eagerness and hesitation), Gym Tots love to explore! Gym Tots are beginning to understand words and ideas. The active learning goals of Gym Tots promote neural development in the amazing one-year old brain. The Gym Tots curriculum is designed to provide enriching activities in a safe and fun environment. Gym Tots learn self-awareness and physical adaptation through developmentally appropriate gymnastics activities such as stepping, rolling, balancing, sliding and swinging. Gym Tots learn baby rhythm and sequencing through physical activities coordinated with music and prompts. Gym Tots learn to clap, step, count, stop and start, and repeat. Creatures of repetition, Gym Tots begin to recognize and anticipate routines in our carefully crafted lesson plans. They are beginning to remember what they have learned and they are excited to participate.
The Gym Tots curriculum is designed to enhance the direct connection between active movement and brain processing. Gym Tots' brains are processing important things as they walk in a circle and scoot across the beam. Their brains are developing as they roll on the wedge mat, bounce on the springboard, swing on the rings, climb through tunnels and hang from the bars. Gymnastics provides opportunities to balance, hold, reach, grip, and bounce. Gym Tots are learning and growing at an amazing pace as they transition from babyhood to toddler-hood. This is a magical year!
GYM TOTS 2 (24m-35m)
Two- year olds are AMAZING!
Gym Tots are gaining independence! The Gym Tots program is designed to capitalize on the rapidly improving physical, cognitive, and language development of two-year-olds. Gym Tots provides large motor skill and gross motor skill development with whole-body activities in developmentally appropriate circuits. Gym Tots learn to run with developing synchronization; step, hold and balance on alternate feet; roll forward, sideways and backward on a wedge with a spot; transfer weight from feet to hands and back. Gym Tots play (or observe play); interactively structured games with other low Gym Tots classmates. They sing and perform physical motions to familiar songs.
Gym Tots are introduced to concepts of recognition, compare and contrast, and distinction through the use of basic shapes in equipment and learning resources used in class. They begin to recognize colors through materials and activities in class; begin to recite numbers through counting or listening while performing physical motions; increase language development through physical activities promoting word association. Gym Tots is designed to provide a multi-sensory educational gymnastics experience that prepares the gymnast to engage his or her occipital lobes through experience with shape patterns and colors. The Gym Tots curriculum engages the Gym Tots’ temporal and frontal lobes and promotes higher cognitive processing through language, words, and tone. Children learn best when they are moving. We know that the more regions of the brain we can engage in the process of learning, the more significant the impact on learning will be.
Our Gym Tots goal is to provide fun, quality gymnastics activities that foster the important neural development of our amazing two-year-olds.
Contact Us
Call: 905-820-4843
Email: lairdoffice@futuresgymnastics.com
Location: 3425 Laird Rd, Mississauga, ON, L5L 5R8