Fun at Dance Class
As of three weeks ago, Wednesday nights are dance class night in the Mindless Mommy house. Both kids attend a combo (ballet, jazz, tumbling) class at 6pm on Wednesdays - separate classes. My son just loves them and there is another boy in his class unlike last time we tried dance when he was the only boy. He’s better at dance than he was at swimming and tee-ball. So for now it is dance and chess for Alexander.
My daughter is a natural. She picked up the moves so quickly. It is great because now that she is day trained and has acquired the skill to imitate, dance is perfect for her. Tonight when all of the girls were doing the tumbling she was a little uncoordinated but had fun. Then it came time for the somersaults, okay all four year-olds know how to somersault, right? Nope! Ava has not figured out how to do it on her own. Miss Tina, the instructor, is fantastic and scoots on to the mat with Ava and helps her. After she was done she went and sat criss-cross applesauce with her back to the mirror.
The rest of the class did their somersaults and then Miss Tina said class was over and called all of the little girls (3 and 4 year-olds) over to Miss Tina and put a hand on their head for stickers. Ava didn’t move, this girl loves stickers but she just sat there. She saw the girls putting their hands on their head so she followed suit, but she still sat there. I decided to hang out and see what she would do. The little girls all went and got their dance bags and filtered out of the room. Miss Tina had seen me so didn’t do anything. Ava didn’t budge and didn’t really appear to notice that she was basically alone in the room. So I poked in and said “Ava, class is over”; she promptly got up and walked over to me while saying “ohhhh”. I just giggled and asked her to get her dance bag then off we went.
