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Matt Hanson’s Brain Archive
May 25, 2006
Creative Movement
The activities have started. As kids it invariably starts with dance, gymnastics, or piano lessons. As they get older it becomes sports, karate, the violin, skating, or any other myriad of activities. But how do you choose what your kids should do? Should she learn foriegn languages? Should she continue with dance, or start an instrument? The fact is that with limited time and a finite budget you can’t send your kids off to do the countless number of fun activities there is to do.
Kaley has been taking a kid music class (called Music Together) since she was little, and now Maizy is doing the same thing. They both have fun, I think it’s valuable, and most importantly the music is very good - and not just for kids.
This past Winter, we decided it was time for Kaley to give Dance a try. The class, called Creative Movement, got her working on basic ballet steps, and now tap. The final dance piece the class put on for parents wasn’t exactly very active (at 3, what do you expect? They end up mostly standing there not really sure how to act in front of all these people), but most importantly she enjoys the class a lot. Perhaps she enjoys dressing up in the outfit even more then the dance class itself. I’d like to get her trying Kung Fu this next year, but maybe we’ll just start with Gymnastics.
November 12, 2006 - I added pictures from dance classes in May and the beginning of June
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