Jessica's new big girl gym class

This week, Jessica moved to a new gym program at a real gymnastics facility. The class she is in is still geared towards preschool kids with dancing and songs, but it also incorporates real gymnastics equipment. And, as a bonus, she gets to wear a leotard. Of course, she kept asking me why her leotard did not have a tutu. Ballet Jessica, ballet is all I can say. We start that shortly. Anyways, last night was her first class.

After some warm up songs and exercises, the class eventually goes through a circuit of gymnastics activities. Given it was Jessica's first class, she had a hard time staying on task and kept wandering over to other equipment that she found interesting (rings and tumbling mat). Eventually, she made it onto the correct circuit though. The first stop was the balance beam. Jessica was a bit hesitant last night and was holding up her friend Isabella (and eventually the rest of the class too).



Then, she practiced her kicks.



Which was followed by big jumps on the trampoline.



And, then she moved on to walk across the bar.



We assume her most favorite part was the rings however. The kids were supposed to hang from them, but Jessica decided to act like a monkey and go upside down while intertwining her feet in the rings. Her dismount was not quite a 10. It was drop to the mat and then laugh at the big fall she took.