Benefits for Preschoolers

Benefits for Preschooler Come from Educational Gymnastics

During the preschool years, a child's brain is like a sponge, almost effortlessly absorbing and storing information and experiences.

SKILLS AREAS

1. Body Awareness
2. Balance
3. Locomotion
4. Gross & Fine Motor Skills
5. Coordination
6. Spatial Relationships
7. Rhythm & Timing
8. Strength
9. Flexibility
10. Safety Rules & Etiquette in Play

These objectives are build an the educational gymnastics curriculum that KidSKILLS has developed.

• Movement skills and patterns are gained and stored.
• Fun and challenges are stimulating.
• Gain experiences in movement.
• Learn to move with more specific control and efficiency.
• Refine and master basic locomotor skills.
• Form a foundation for physical skills activity for a lifetime through strength and muscle tone drills.
• Teach body awareness.
• Gain knowledge of what body part aids their performances.
• Develop good balance skills, both static and dynamic.
• Perform basic techniques of rolling, jumping and landing.
• Try new hand apparatus in rhythmic ways: ribbons, hoops, ropes, balls.
• Strengthening and aerobic conditioning are trained regularly.
• Coordinations: eye-hand and eye-foot are explored.
• Concepts of laterality and sense of right and left are covered.
• Brain functions: crossing the midline and brain-body integration are recruited as possible.