As parents and teachers, it is essential to remember there is no better age to form positive learning attitudes than the preschool years. Unfortunately, as many parents find out the hard way, you simply can't turn back the clock and teach learning attitudes to a teenager. We believe strongly, the learning attitudes your child acquires during their preschool years in Tumble Bees are the most important!
Child development experts know: for preschoolers, acquiring healthy learning skills is far more important than mastery of specific skills such as cartwheels. In Tumble Bees, gymnastics skills are used as tools to instill learning attitudes while skill mastery is a secondary goal. In Tumble Bees, we keep first things first.....kids!
Parent Participation
Length: 30 minutes
Ages: 6 weeks - Pre-walking
Cost:
6 weeks - Crawling = FREE; Crawling - Strong walking = $25/month
Using our Baby Bees ABC's (Attach - Bond - Connect), our Baby Bees program helps with early infant/parent interaction which greatly contributes to the healthy social, cognitive and physical development of an infant. Your baby's sense of security begins with a healthy attachment to you. The bond you two create through movement will help provide your baby with an optimal foundation for life: eagerness to larn, healthy self-awareness, trust and consideration for others. We create a play outlet to improve the mind-body connection using both fine and gross motor movements.
Parent Participation
Length: 45 Minutes
Ages: Walking - 24 months
Cost: $112 per month
Ready-Set-Go! The Walking to 24 month class is for older toddlers; those who are walking, running, exploring, and ready for a bigger challenge. Your child will be introduced to many new concepts such as circle time, sequencing activities, and group activities. Parent-child activities, social interaction, and gross motor play are at the center of our Walking-24 month curriculum.
Parent Participation
Length: 45 Minutes
Ages: 2 year olds
Cost
Non-Prime Times (Afternoons & Late Evenings):
$99.75 per month
Cost:
$133 per month
This high energy, action-packed class is sure to foster healthy independence and confidence. Teachers and parents will work together to introduce key concepts such as taking turns, sharing, listening and following directions. Our carefully designed Tumble Bee activities will capture your child’s imagination while developing gross motor skills and early gymnastics activities. This is also a parent/tot format, but bigger excitement and bigger challenges.
Length: 45 Minutes
Ages: 3-4 year olds
Cost
Non-Prime Times (Afternoons & Late Evenings): $99.75 per month
Cost: $133 per month
No parents here...Our three and four year olds are on their own! Three year old Tumble Bees are learning how to stay with a group, beginning to understand and follow directions and are developing independence from their parent.
Four year olds are beginning to understand multi-step instructions and are able to follow directions independently.
Our lesson plans will build on those concepts while introducing your child to physical activities that will engage their imagination while developing gross motor strength, coordination and early gymnastics fundamentals.
Length:
45 Minutes
Ages:
4.5-5.5
year olds
Cost
Non-Prime Times (Afternoons & Late Evenings):
$99.75 per month
Cost:
$133 per month
Four and five year olds LOVE to be challenged. Whether trying a new skill, or going higher, faster, or farther, our 4-5 yr olds will LOVE expanding their skills. Remember parents, at this age, all kids develop at their own pace. It is our goal to individualize activities when necessary to offer just the right balance of challenge and success for each child. Some of the gymnastics skills our 4-5yr olds will be trying to master include backward and straddle rolling, cartwheels, handstands bridges and pullovers.
Length:
45 Minutes
Ages:
5-6
year olds
Cost
Non-Prime Times (Afternoons & Late Evenings):
$99.75 per month
Cost:
$133 per month
For those who follow directions and are ready for a faster-paced class. At this age, your child has gained listening skills which allow for more opportunities to learn. Forward and backward rolling, cartwheels, and handstands begin to take shape. By creatively incorporating more skill development into our lesson plans, your child will get hooked on learning!
Length:
45 Minutes
Ages:
Kindergartners
Cost
Non-Prime Times (Afternoons & Late Evenings):
$99.75 per month
Cost:
$133 per month
Kinder Bees is designed for children who are currently in kindergarten (or are going into kindergarten, if enrolling in the summer).
Whether trying a new skill, or going higher, faster, or farther, our Kinder Bees will LOVE expanding on the skills that have been introduced in other Tumble Bees classes! Students will rotate through the Tumble Bee stations, as well as through the rec class area of the gym, onto larger equipment to work on gymnastics events: vaults, bars, beams, and floor. By doing rotations in both areas, students will familiarize themselves with the rec class area to make their transition, after Tumble Bees, much easier!
Imagine a full hour in the land of Tumble Bees, only you are the driver! Swinging, bouncing, flying, and and rolling on all your favorites; trampolines, tunnels, slides and more. Open Play is fully supervised but non-instructional.
OPEN PLAY: Babies to 6 Year Olds
*Guardian participation required for safety purposes
Day and Time: Every Thursday from 11:15am-12:15pm
Every Friday from 12:15-1:15pm
1st & 3rd Saturdays of the month from 12:15-1:15pm
Price: $10.00 per child or contact hospitality to use a makeup token!
Enjoy our Open Plays?
Ask our Hospitality Team about purchasing a punch pass!
Our curriculum is based on the Baby Bees ABCs!
ATTACH-BOND-CONNECT!
Research shows that early parent/child interaction greatly contributes to the healthy social, cognitive and physical development of an infant.
Wednesdays:
6 weeks - Pre-Crawling: 12:15-12:45pm FREE
Crawling - Walking: 11:20am-12:05pm - $25/month
*Strong Walkers move to the Walking-24 Months Class!
We believe that the greatest strength of our program is our teachers. Tumble Bee teachers have a genuine love for children as well as a thorough understanding of early childhood development. Each of us is here to help your child grow and learn, and we do that through the fun and challenging activities we offer each week.
Research indicates that the primary reason children participate in sports is to have fun.
The number one reason they quit is that it's not fun anymore. Our teachers understand this concept and are committed to creating a positive, fun, learning environment in every class. We know that the preschool years are the best time to learn to “love to learn.”
Amy has been part of the Kids First family for many years. Originally teaching Tumble Bees, coaching at the Compulsory levels, as the first Birthday Party Department Leader at Kids First on Kemper Rd. Serving from 2013-2020, as Gym Manager here at Kids First Too, Amy serves as our Preschool Assistant Department Leader! Amy focuses on the baby programming through parent-child classes and loves fostering a love of learning at any early age!
Amy enjoys working with children of all ages, at all levels of gymnastics and helping them reach their full potential. Helping kids succeed by making the learning process fun and enjoyable for all ages and abilities is the most rewarding part of this job... and Amy feels that is the most important part as well!
Would you like to learn more about Tumble Bees℠ and get an inside look? Also hear from some of our parents and teachers.
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