Jack Graduated

Ms. Linda, Jack's Gymboree teacher, had been out for a long time because of a family situation and she was finally back last week. After seeing how much her little Jack had grown she said he was ready to move up to Level 4. I was reluctant since we only have a few more weeks before I have to start working and we have made so many friends in our Level 3 class so we went on Monday to try it out in hopes that it made our decision easier. Jack did great and so we are moving him up to Level 4 for the remainder of the Summer (and Saturdays in August to finish out the Summer Session) so that he can experience some of it and he doesn't get bored in Level 3 (which I don't think is possible in such a fun environment).

Here are some great videos of Jack in action. Since Nick was there I was able to capture some of it on the digital camera and the camcorder for us to remember such a great year at Gymboree. For those of you that contributed to the funds for his classes....THANK YOU!

In level 4 they work on concepts every week rather than just developing motor skills. This week was pushing and pulling. Here is Nick pulling and pushing Jack on the rollie cart. For some reason in the video Nick makes it look like it is heavy and kinda makes you tired just watching...but Jack can push and pull it so it's not that heavy.

In Level 3 a signature activity that the kids do is right before parachute is that they push the log across the mat. They did it in Level 4 too. Just look how proud Jack is of himself when they make it to the end of the mat...clap, clap, clap!

This is one of the signature activities in Level 4...takes pushing the log a step further because they are pushing it back and forth to each other. At first Jack went with it beccause he is so used to pushing it by staying with it...by the end he got the hang of it. His face would light up when the line of Mommys and Kiddos across the mat would push it back their way.