It’s Clamber Club time
On April 21, 2011
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Grace has been going to Clamber Club since July last year and although we have had a few tears at the beginning of many of our classes this year, she usually gets into it after a few minutes and really enjoys herself. It has been interesting to watch her over the course of the last 8 classes and see how she has really started participating more in the various activities and doing the actions to the songs. Although she engages in the clambering activities she has for the past month or so only really been interested in swinging. Today however she enjoyed climbing ladders, walking up slides and sliding down, climbing up stairs and jumping into a pool of balls, walking on balance beams, jumping on a trampoline etc.
In today's class the theme was "slow and fast," with a fluffy bird suspended from the ceiling. To illustrate slow and fast, Leilani released the bird slowly to the ground and then pulled it up fast. Each time she pulled the bird up quickly Grace laughed (the kind of laugh that says it is REALLY funny) and as the bird would come down she would say "down." It was so cute to watch and she just wanted more. When we got home I asked her to tell Duncan what she enjoyed and found funny at Clamber Club and she signed bird and said "down" 🙂
I know I am biased but I think we have a sweet kid and it melted my heart today when Sarafé (one of her fellow Clamber Clubbers) gave her a ping pong ball and she signed "thank you" without any prompting from me.