Gymboree's School Skills trial

So, Juliana was attending Gymboree classes at Tanglin, but we decided to try out the location at harbourfront and so far, we have been pleased. She's in the drop off program for music and yesterday, they had an open house for members for their School Skills II program. As Gymboree states, it's set up to, "Build the key social, emotional, and intellectual skills needed for school and life." It was a two hour drop off program.

Here she is, being a monkey. We have monkey bars here at Summerdale the play park, so she has had a lot of practice with them and it shows!
A collage of play pictures, with balls, scarves, climbing structures and a slide. Apparently, there was also some basketball among other things to get them active and moving.

This is the art collage, because the theme of the day was the letter "A." Juliana has enjoyed art since the first class she took last year and of course, she dug right in to color in that A!

The final product that all of the children got to contribute to...

Snack time, yum!

Next, the children got to practice writing the letter A on this "high-tech" learning device that they use headphone with as you will see in the next collage. Such a great idea and the work she brought home was very good!

I'm left to assume it's similar to the vtech book we have at home that helps you out loud learn about tracing and making letters. Word is, Juliana did very well!! Now I want one of these for home.

What would Gymboree be without play dough? Here's Juliana, thoroughly studying what the teacher is doing in order to copy here...

She was successful and made an A with her play dough!

The feedback was good, that Juliana pays attention, enjoys all of the tasks and is learning at a fast pace for her age. All good things for parents to hear. So, we'll be continuing with her current classes and see how the "School Skill" could come into play int he future. Thanks Gymboree!