LITTLE ROAMERS & ME - TODDLER & PRESCHOOL CLASSES
9 Months - 3 Years
Little Roamers & Me classes at ROAMFurther Athletics in Mt. Kisco, NY offer a unique take on traditional Mommy & Me Classes. Little Roamers & Me classes focus on coach-supervised exploration and development of spatial awareness, initial motor skills, and movement milestones for toddlers ages 9 months to 3 years.
OUR TAKE, MOMMY & ME CLASSES IN MT. KISCO, NY
PARKOUR-FOCUSED OBSTACLE-BASED
In ROAM’s take on the traditional ‘open-play’ structure of mommy and me classes, your little ones navigate obstacle-based stations designed with a Parkour focused perspective, attended by their caregiver and the supervising instructor.
DEVELOPMENT OF SPATIAL AWARENESS
Parkour is a movement discipline that improves a student’s kinesthetic and proprioceptive awareness. Kinesthesia is our sense of self-motion, proprioception our sense of self relative to space. Jumping, climbing, balancing—the root movements of Parkour—enhance these senses and the motor skills associated with them.
INITIAL MOTOR SKILLS & MOVEMENT MILESTONES
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LITTLE ROAMERS & ME - MORNING & EARLY AFTERNOON SESSIONS
LITTLE ROAMERS & ME - LATE AFTERNOON & EVENING SESSIONS
FOSTERING CURIOSITY IN TODDLERS
COACH-SUPERVISED CURIOSITY
Our Little Roamer & Me classes focus on refining and reinforcing children’s natural curiosity for movement and exploration through the foundations of Parkour—a discipline all about learning how to move in more dynamic and confident ways.
GUIDANCE FOR PARENTS & CAREGIVERS
COLLABORATIVE EFFORT WITH COACHES
Little Roamer & Me classes are a collective effort between coach, student, and caregiver.
The instructor’s communication with parents/caregivers focuses on how the skills, setup, and challenges relate to their Little Roamer’s own movement development and physical awareness.
DEMONSTRATION & MODELING TECHNIQUES
LEARNING THROUGH WATCHING - MEMORIZE THROUGH MIMICRY
ROAM instructors are also active Parkour Athletes–meaning they practice what they teach.
Little Ones learn predominately through watching and mimicking the actions of others. Explanation of technique is at a minimum in our Little Roamer & Me classes. Instead coaches focus on modeling the movement most important to the ages they’re instructing.
Whether they’re working on a specific skill in a specific area of the gym, or moving from one area to another, coaches consider how the movement they demonstrate is perceived and internalized by each student.
PRACTICAL MOVEMENT IN THE REAL WORLD
APPLYING SKILLS OUTSIDE THE GYM
The explorative nature of our Little Roamer & Me classes allows our students to move as they would outside.
We watch the decisions they make on how to move through the space, correcting movement, and encouraging the growth of certain milestones as they do.
This means the movement they learn here is the movement they’ll use outside.
BUILDING COMMUNITY & CONNECTION
BONDING WITH PARENTS & PEERS
Community is at the heart of ROAM. For us that means developing and deepening relationships both with students and families, and between them.
Little Roamer & Me classes are an opportunity to bond with your littlest in a unique way. The interaction of instructor, student, and caregiver creates a setting of cooperative learning.
You’ll see their self-confidence with movement, spatial–awareness, and risk assessment grow, and find your own confidence in their capabilities growing alongside.
CLASS AGE RANGES
LITTLE ROAMER & ME AGE RANGES
Little Roamer & Me classes are designed for children aged 9 months through 3 years–or in other words for children still requiring parental supervision.
Interested in having your 3 year old try our coach-only Little Roamers classes for ages 3 to 5 years? Click here to check out our Little Roamers class page for more information.
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