Curriculum Guide and Lesson Plans

Adventures In Planning Lessons

This curriculum guide is the central module in the "Choose Your Own Adventure" Gymnastics Program Development Kit.  It is designed to help you coordinate your yearly recreational program, including training instructors, making lesson plans, and most importantly to help you design the kind of lessons YOUR gym needs.  It's quick and it's easy.  We do almost all the work for you, except spot the children!  This curriculum guide includes:

 

- A rationale for designing and choosing elements for a recreation program
- A step-by-step guide for mapping out your yearly program

- A core Gymnastics skill list - giving you list of basic pre-school and recreational gymnastics skills and warm up activities.

 

- All the tools you need to design lesson plans including

a)  A list of 30 gymnastics themes detailing music, props, coloring sheets, handstamps and decorations which can be coordinated with the themes

b) A Tips Section for each of the 30 themes giving creative ways to incorporate warm up activities and gymnastics skills and special activities into Theme Lessons

c)  30 Sample Lesson Plans which may be used "as is" or modified to meet the needs of your program.

- Gymnastics Activity Cards:  Mom and Me Activity Cards (2-3 year olds) and "I can do Gymnastics" Activity Cards (4-7 yr olds), with 150 skills depicted step-by-step in full color.  Instructions, tips and safety advice is detailed for each skill.  Great aid for training new teachers!

 

- Gym Layout Template - for mapping out and illustrating the lesson plans for your teachers

 

- Teaching 101 - teaching tips gathered from many different sources, including a combined 60+ years of teaching.  A great guide for new teachers, as well as a good review for the "oldies" out there. 

 

-Complimentary set of clip art

This guide will be indispensable in your program and be your basic source for designing and creating lessons now and for years to come!

 

The Price is $595.00, including the combined Gymnastics Activity Cards and the Flip-Clips Sampler.  Combine this curriculum Guide with other program products from PENultimate for a 20 or even 25% discount (see our discount chart on the Order Page)