Katie was funny during her Lyrical/Acro class. Every time she'd catch my eye, she'd look the other direction. I asked her about it later, and she told me she was nervous to have people watching her, so we went over some good tricks to make it seem like you're looking at your audience even if you're not.
At the beginning of our class, we help Ms. Moriah put out our tumbling mats.
Then we warm up. We start by running around the mats.
We do some skipping,...
...some walking on our toes, trying to stand up straight,...
...and we walk on our heels.
After that, we do things on the mat. We have to jump in the air, and then...
...roll on our back and repeat.
We also do lots of stretches like this one where I touch my head to my toes.
We practice bridges too.
After our warm-ups, we each have a turn doing exercises down the mat. I was working on cartwheels here!
These are my somersaults.
This is my bridge again, and I'm just learning how to walk in this position, so Ms. Moriah is helping me. Some of the girls can already walk in bridge position to the other end of the mat!
It's also important to work on flexibility by doing the splits. They aren't my favorite thing, but I keep trying!
We practice splits in both positions.
After that, we had a partner and we practiced moving across the room in different ways. Here, we had to kick our legs up while keeping the rest of our body as straight as we could.
Then we have to do the opposite by kicking our legs back behind us and walking backwards.
We also practice our dance leaps.
After that, we went to the barre to practice our C jumps.
The goal is to jump high and put our heads and feet behind us, so our bodies make the letter c.
The last thing we did was our group dance.
I've been practicing this dance for awhile.
It's fun to dance with friends.
This was my whole dance.
I love dancing and my teacher!
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