MOVEMENT

Develop confident walkers’ muscles and minds through playful movement. Toddlers and caregivers will interact with multimedia and props through imaginative play. Each class includes learning experiences such as: stretching, dancing, rolling, climbing, following directions, cross-lateral motion, balance, obstacle courses, open play and expert guidance from Bubbles Academy teaching artists.

Class Activities: Each Creative Movement class session is a high-energy adventure! We embark on themes like transportation, sports, the seasons and more!

Gross Locomotor Movement: Your teacher leads across the room run, dance and stop-and-go games, which exercise not only young feet, but also ears. While stomping, marching, galloping or even mowing with toy lawn mowers, Creative Movement students extend arms, legs and their vocabulary!

Sensory & Fine Motor Development: Your teacher leads students in the creative use of instruments, inflatables and colorful pom-poms as props when acting out stories within class. The transitioning between objects, as well as exposure to a variety of colors and textures, strengthens your child’s fine motor and sensory skills.

Cause and Effect: We erase images from the magic screen by shaking pom-poms, we tip toe under the parachute before it falls, and we pop waves of floating bubbles. Our teachers encourage an understanding of cause and effect and instill an early sense of accomplishment in students.

Cognitive and Social Development: An underlining element of Creative Movement is to grow children’s ability to listen, to focus and to embrace new interactions! 

Learn Ballet, the Bubbles’ way! This imaginative and playful class is a wonderful first introduction to ballet for our youngest dancers. We introduce ballet through a thematic, storytelling approach, so little ones get to be a part of a new dance adventure with props and costumes each week.

Vocabulary: Students are introduced to ballet terms in a kinesthetic, musical and fun way to make learning stick!

Gross Motor Development: Students will warm up and stretch together, practice following their teacher (and their grown-up, in the 2’s class) and engage in all basic ballet movements such as plie, releve, jete, pas de chat and more.

Social Emotional Development: Students will work on learning to take turns as they demonstrate steps across the floor, regulate their bodies as they engage in dance steps with their grown-up or a peer partner in class.