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Unlock Your Child’s Full Potential with The Little Gym of Cypress!

Let's Talk Milestones!

By Devon Sayre | Macaroni KID Greater NW Houston November 13, 2024

At The Little Gym - Cypress, they blend fun with research-backed learning, following the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Developmental Guidelines alongside our unique 3-Dimensional Learning approach to help children reach physical, cognitive, and social-emotional milestones. Here’s how they make it happen:

Get Moving: Our high-energy activities channel boundless energy into building flexibility, strength, balance, coordination, agility, and rhythm!

Brain Boost: Through activities that nurture listening skills, concentration, and decision-making, we foster a lifelong love for learning that goes beyond the gym.

Citizen Kid: Children learn invaluable life skills, such as teamwork, patience, and leadership, through play and peer interaction.








Curious about how our age-specific classes support these milestones? Take our Birds Class (10-18 months), for instance, where little ones begin walking, saying 2-3 word sentences, and enjoy parallel play. Or, check out our Beast/Super Beast Classes (19-35 months) where toddlers refine motor skills, follow two-step directions, and develop their independence.

Birds

Ages 10mos-18mos

Locomotor: walker, starts to run and attempt jumps

Tumbling: perform skills assisted

Bar: will swing on bar (spotted or independently)

Beam: walk the balance beam assisted

Speak 2-3 word sentences

Follow simple directions

Recognize few body parts

Starts to develop muscle memory

Respond to own name

Loves being with other children

Parallel play

Learn by copying or modeling others

Start to show Independence  

Experiences separation anxiety

Can recognize loved ones and begin to have favorite things or people





Beasts/Super Beasts

Ages 19mos-35mos

Locomotor: Jumps, gallops, tip toes, runs, directionality

Tumbling: Can perform a forward roll with minimal or no spotting

Bar: Can easily swing on bar & may perform supported front supports

Beam: Can walk on low beam un-assisted

May speak 2-5 word sentences

Can point to things or pictures when named (part parts, colors, etc.)

Follow 2-step directions

Numbers, sorting & shapes

Loves stories, singing, music & simple make-believe

Making choices

Become more Independent

Share & take turns

Parallel play

We like to call them our Terrific-Twos Stage! – Ask a coach for more questions or details!





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