Gymnastics Lesson Plans for Advanced Kinder, Kindernastics

Lesson plan appropriate for children aged 3-5 with excellent listening skills and good strength, flexibility, and discipline.

Plans for Artistic and Trampoline Gymnastics

Coaching Point

Audible, Visual, and Clear and Consistent way to get class attention to focus on you

E.g. “eyes on me and here we go” with point to eyes motions and dive

Advanced Kinder — June 2017 with Coach PB

Warm Up (20-25m)

RUNNING WARM UP

Use two strips of the floor

Make sure to ask them to “Show me you’re ready” before each exercise — they’re ready when they are in a single file line with ballet arms at their sides.

Exercise	Details
Running (5x)	Have them high five you every time they run down the first strip
Running with knees up
Running and kicking bum
Frog hops
Long jumps
Bunny hops
One foot hopping	Hop on first foot on the way there, and on the second foot on the way back
Marching	One hand to their ear, one hand to their hip as they march. The elbow in front should be the opposite of the knee up. After marching down the first strip, they run back to the beginning.
Front kicks	After front kicks down the first strip, they run back to the beginning

They may take a drink after this and expected to come back to the floor and put their nose on the line.

CONDITIONING

Exercise	Duration / Reps	Details
Push ups	10x	They try to get their nose to the line
Hollow body rockers	20 seconds
Arch rockers	20 seconds
Clear support	3 x 10 seconds
Wall sit	30 seconds

STRETCH

Similar to a kinder stretch

Make sure to include pike sit with toes pointed, flexed and arched — 20 seconds each

Run your hand under their heels for pointed and flexed to see if it will fit.

Rotations (15-20m each)

If you notice them doing something particularly well, you can reward them with an extra stamp. They’ll work really hard for this, so if you find they’re being sloppy, remind them you’re looking to give out extra stamps.

Have them sit in pike while you’re giving instructions and setting up.

Floor

1. Circuit (10-15 minutes)

   Setup	Skill
   Blue cheese	Back roll to feet
   Two Velcro lines	Handstands
   Mushroom + large red mat	Fall to back
   Two blocks + a line between them	Cartwheel between the blocks
   Red mat	Front roll, stand up without using hands

2. Stations — two people per station (5-10 minutes)

   Setup	Skill	Notes
   Mini-cheese against the wall	Back bend with feet on floor, hands on cheese	With spot if necessary; switch after group has done 3
   Cheese standing up against the wall	Kick up to handstand
   Two stacked blocks	Handstand against the block, bent at the hips with knees on the block	Focusing on shrugging shoulders and pushing armpits into the block

Beam

Hold releve (tip toes) on the low beam (30 seconds)

Shoulders should be back, stomach should be tight, knees should be straight

1. Circuit — low beams (10 minutes)

   Activity
   Bear walking with straight knees
   Backwards tip toe walking, sliding feet along the edge
   Handstands with a beam pad (with spot)

2. Circuit — high beams (10 minutes)

   Activity
   Dismounts (stuck): Straight, Star, Straddle, Pike
   Handstand walking with feet along the GymNova beam

   While they’re waiting to do their dismounts, you can put down the pink baby beam for them to sit on.

Vault

1. Circuit (15 minutes)

   Setup	Skill
   Blue block + blue crash mat	Handstand, fall to back
   Long grey beatboard + blue block (halfway up the back of the beatboard) + orange square mat	Step off the block, arm circle, jump on beatboard, land on mat with arms up
   Tumbl trak	Spider hops

   If you need to use the floor rather than vault, you can replace this with running long jump — have them jump onto the small red mat.

Bars

1. Conditioning (5 minutes)

   Exercise	Duration
   Pike hold	20 seconds, 15 seconds

   Split them up so that two kids are on the single wooden bar, one on each of the yellow bars, and two on the low bar.

2. Stations — two people per station (15 minutes)

   Station	Skill	Notes
   Low bar (competitive bar set)	Swings (x3)	Switch stations once each person has had two turns
   Red bars	Tuck hold
   Yellow bars	Casts, roll down forward

Cool Down (5-10m)

SPLITS

Split	Duration
Right leg	1 minute
Left leg	1 minute

GAME — If there’s time left over

“Reindeer Game”

• Put a block in the middle of two strips on the floor
• One person is It, they count to 10 before chasing everyone around the block in one direction
• When someone is caught, they sit on the block
• Whoever is caught last can be It next

PRESENT

• Have them line up on the pink floor and present to you individually
  • Feet together, tummy tight, shoulders down and back, chin up
• After they present, you can give them their stamps
• When you give extra stamps, ask them to tell you why they are getting an extra stamp