The Metro News - August 2009 - Gymnastics – Recreational & Lessons, Cheerleading, Preschool : Tigard, Oregon : Metro Gymnastics Center

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METRO BOYS TEAM / METRO GIRLS TEAM / REC GYMNASTICS / REC & COMPETITIVE CHEERLEADING / MAGIC YEARS / NOTICES : NEW STUDENT REGISTRATIONS, LOST & FOUND, PARKING / MCCAFFREY COMPLETES JUDGING COURSE / HIP HOP DANCE CLASS / NOTICE : REGISTRATION FORMS / PARTIES / SAVE ON FALL REGISTRATION / MINI-MOVERS / WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR CHILD IS UNSPORTSMANLIKE / CLUB METRO / SUMMER CAMPS / JAVA BEAN / ASK THE COACH / SAVE A TEACHER / FALL SCHEDULES

Mini-Mover & Rec Gymnastics Early Bird Fall Registrations!

Early Registrations for Mini-Mover and Rec Gymnastics Fall Classes!

The time for Fall registrations is right around the corner! Stop by the office or give us a call today to register for the 2009 Fall session!

Summer session families have first dibs at registration for the Fall session and can register early, during the week of July 27th.

Open registration begins the week of August 3rd. This is a perfect time to get a jump on your Fall scheduling so your classes fit perfectly into you busy life.

Call Metro Gymnastics today at 503-620-8939, to register for the upcoming Fall sessions!

View current class schedules.

Metro Boys Team

by Trent Wells & Luke Cartmill, Boys Team Coaches

A Tricky Summer!

This summer is flying by and I guess that's a good thing, going by the old axiom "Time flies when you're having fun." We've been having a lot of fun with a consistent practice schedule. We've been following the National Team warm-up (from when I was on the National Team), which includes practice on 3-4 events daily, a time for team and/or individual games, and conditioning/strength workouts for every level.

Many boys have taken vacations and come back to find a different, more structured practice waiting for them, and have done well in integrating into the new structure. We've also had three new additions to the team:

- Tyler Hillison, a new level 4 from the Metro Boys Recreational Program,
- Benjamin Foullon, also level 4 and from the Rec. Program,
- and Aaron Park, a Level 5 gymnast who recently moved to the area from Southern Oregon.

Welcome, boys, and we wish you the best of luck!

Our boys are working hard and learning a lot of new tricks. I was hoping to have some videos of boys performing the tricks they've learned recently, but it's not so easy to take videos of 40 boys learning up to 10 new tricks on each of 6 events! That's 2400 tricks to video! I may be exaggerating a little, but we've seen a lot of great progress this summer, and it's still going on.

Just today, Quinn Millionis, Spencer Hanash, and Grant Balsbough did standing back-handsprings without a spot for the first time. Later on, I saw Ryan Bodyfelt perform inlocate, inlocate, backuprise on the Still Rings, which is a huge accomplishment. Ryland Silberbach did some great double-layout timers off rings. And Garrett Hamers did a very difficult swing to handstand that wouldn't have seemed out-of-place in collegiate or international competition. The skills and combinations keep coming and it's really exciting to be involved with the training of these young men!

Since I don't have any videos to share this month, I'll instead share a link of a former Metro Gymnast, Adam Hamers (older brother to Garrett), who was the subject of a photo for the winner of the annual University Photographers Association of America Photographer of the Year Award. No doubt, the photographer, Martin Vloet, is a great photographer (he also won in 2006), but without the right subject the photographer is just another guy with a camera. Congrats to both Adam and Mr. Vloet! The winning photo can be seen at this link: http://michigantoday.umich.edu/2009/07/upaa/index.html

A Big Thanks to Level 5 & 6 Boys Team

I would like to acknowledge the levels 5 & 6 Boys Team for their excellent job on organizing the gym equipment and making the gym look so neat. They did this with pride in the gym and enthusiasm.

Thank you Boys!
Pamela Maurice
Metro Gymnastics
Birthday Party Director

Metro Girls Team

by David Ward, Girl's Team Director & Marci Bell, Compulsory Head Coach

See You this Fall!!! The Girls Team hopes you’ve been having a great Summer and looks forward to getting back on the floor this fall!

News from the Rec Department

by Lynn McCaffrey, Recreational Gymnastics Director

Fall Registration!

It’s time to start thinking about your Fall schedules and how gymnastics classes fit in. Get registered in August and pick all the days and times that your son or daughter need, before our classes fill up! It's time to get back into shape and get those muscles re-stretched and flexible again!

When you register, be sure to ask about our discount for multiple classes!

Rec & Competitive Cheerleading

by Dale Agbayani, Metro Cheer Director

Developmental Rec Program

Be a part of a competitive team without the financial and time commitment! Metro Cheer is offering a Developmental Rec Program for $75 per month, with uniform costs that will fit most any budget. Practices will be on Mondays at 5:30 and include a separate tumbling class. Participants will compete in at least 4 competitions throughout the season, making the Development Rec Program a great place for beginners to get off the ground in cheerleading!

For more information, please contact Coach Dale at 503-860-2966 or email at: Dalea@metrogymnastics.com.

Open Gym

Open Gym is available on Wednesdays from 6:30-8:30 and Fridays from 1:00-3:00. There is a $10 per visit fee, or you can purchase a punch card for 10 visits for only $75 - a $25 savings! Open Gym is available for both members and non-members, so bring your friends and work out with our excellent coaches. Work on tumbling, partner or group stunting, and any and all gymnastics skills... it's your choice, it's Open Gym!

Free trial class!

Call 503-860-2966 to sign-up for a free trial Cheer class! Not sure if you want to join our program? Come try a class, meet the coaches, and then make your decision. You can try a dance class, tumbling class, or any of our team practices! Our classes start as low as $40/month per person and we also offer group rates. Call and ask for details! Good for Metro Cheer Program only.

Practice Space Available

Have a group that is looking for a place to practice?

Contact us to schedule the Cheer studio! Perfect for cheer teams that need extra tumbling, stunting, dance or routine work. We can set up specialized classes that will fit almost any program! You can choose to have one of our instructors teach along side your own, or not! Call for group rates for any classes we offer or to create one of your own!

See the Revised Cheer Schedule!

Magic Years

by Marylynn Craig, Magic Years Preschool Director

New Magic Years Classes

Magic Years Preschool Underwater Adventure Camp has been filled with many fun activities. We dove right into learning about sea creatures as we splished and splashed through each day. We went on an imaginary trip to the beach, built sand castles, flew kites, played in the water, blew bubbles and watched them dance in the wind, and we even played beach volleyball. We played many games...ocean blue, Who took the fish? Fish, fish, shark, The dolphin in the ocean and did the Seafood limbo to music by the Beach boys.

The children made edible sand and smores one day. We sang lots of songs around the campfire circle; I'm a little fishy, sing a song of seashells, In the deep blue sea, sail your boat, The lobster claws and more...Camp art projects included The rainbow fish, fishy stick puppets, decorating pails and camp t-shirts, marble painted and then sprinkled sand over seahorses and made a house for a hermit crab. Each day the children had a 45 minute gymnastics class that was included in the camp as well as a 20 minute open gym time. What fun we had!!!!!

The next Magic Years camp is the week of August 3rd and we will dive right in to an Hawaiian experience. For more info. contact Metro Gymnastics Center at 503 620-8939. We'd love for you join us!

Magic Years Preschool Families new & returning, your summer enclosure "Back to School" packet will be mailed at the end of July. Enclosed you will find forms that need to be filled out and turned in by the first day of school as well as an Invitation to our "Meet The Classmates" picnics that will be on August 11th & 12th. Also included is your child's school supply list, A letter to each child inviting them to their 1st day of preschool and 3 projects for them to do and bring with them on their 1st day. School begins Tuesday September 8th. For the 1st week of school we divide the classes in 1/2. For example in the Tuesday Thursday class 1/2 the children will come on Tuesday September 8th and on Thursday September 10th the other 1/2 of the class will attend preschool. Their 1st FULL day of preschool will be Tuesday September 15th. All the info. is in your packet. We look forward to another wonderful year of preschool!!!

We still have some openings in our newly added class for 3 and 4 year olds combined that will meet on MWF from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. For more information please contact me by phone at 503 888-2014 or email at teachem2mlc@yahoo.com or marylynnc@metrogymnastics.com.

Have a wonderful rest of the summer! Enjoy the sunshine! :)

Sincerely,
Teacher Marylynn

A NEW MAGIC YEARS PRESCHOOL CLASS HAS BEEN ADDED!

Mon/Wed/Fri morning class for 3's and 4's!
Call Marylynn at 503-888-2014 for more details!

Now enrolling for PLAYHOUSE!

Class begins Monday 9/14.
This class is an extension of our MAGIC YEARS PRESCHOOL!
Playhouse is offered Monday thru Friday from 11:30-2:00.
For more information visit the Magic Years web page.

Notices

NEW STUDENTS can download the required registration forms by clicking on REGISTRATION FORMS on the home page of our web-site, www.metrogymnastics.com. Bring the forms to your first class visit. YOU MUST CALL TO REGISTER FOR CLASSES—this form does not register your child/ren.

Parking Metro only has 7 parking spaces in the front of our building. We have a large parking area directly behind the building. You may enter through the double stairway at the far end of the parking lot. Please DO NOT park in Platt Electric parking spaces (to the left of the mailboxes facing Lower Boones Ferry Rd) or behind the blue fence in the back parking lot. Thank you for helping us to be a “Good Neighbor.”

McCaffery Completes Judging Course

Teacher Lynn just returned from completing the USA Gymnastics National Judging Course in Indianapolis. She completed the course with another passing grade. The course was 4 12-hour days of learning with 8 tests. Lynn is glad to have accomplished this again and is really glad she doesn't have to go back and do it again for 4 more years!

With this rating she can judge all levels of gymnastics anywhere in the United States. She has been a gymnastics judge for 30+ years. A big Congrats to Lynn!

You Asked, We're Bringing It!

Dance: Hip Hop Class

Join our Hip-Hop dance class with Coach Paige! Learn new and exciting moves and routines! Class is on Wednesdays at 6:30 and coming soon on Monday evenings (time TBD). Bring a friend or a group!

Instructed by Paige Parker
Dance Member of Liza’s Dream Team (LDT)

This class will focus on fun hip hop style dance technique

Ages 8 to 18

Wednesdays - 6:30pm to 7:30pm

Contact Metro Gymnastics to enroll: 503-620-8939

Registration Forms

We are in the process of UPDATING our Registration Forms. If your family’s form needs to be updated, we will be calling to ask that you stop by the front desk to update them. IF you were enrolled prior to November 08, there are additional forms and updates that need to be filled out and signed. Please check with our office to see if you need to update your forms.

Parties

by Pam Maurice, Birthday Party Director

Birthday Party time slots for summer fun in the gym are still available!

Parties are not just for Birthdays! Have an end of Summer party just for fun with all your friends! August slots still available!

"Beat The Heat" and plan your summer birthday party, block party, or a just a "for fun" party at Metro! We are AIR CONDITIONED! Times are still available in August for a Saturday or Sunday Party!!! All parties include a big inflatable!

Call 503.620.8939 today to book your party!

Save on Fall Registration!

Refer a Friend, Save $25 on Fall Registration!

If you refer a friend who registers (and pays in full) for the Summer Session, you’ll receive a $25 credit for your Fall Registration!

Registrations for Mini-Mover and Rec Gymnastics Fall Classes!

The time for Fall registrations is here! Stop by the office or give us a call today to register for the 2009 Fall session!

Open registration begins the week of August 3rd. This is a perfect time to get a jump on your Fall scheduling so your classes fit perfectly into you busy life.

*The Yearly Membership Fee for 09-10 is $30.00 per family, due upon registration!

Our discounts have changed:
10% DISCOUNT WILL BE GIVEN FOR TWO DAYS OR CLASSES, OR ON 2 CHILDREN.
15% DISCOUNT GIVEN ON 3 OR MORE CLASSES OR CHILDREN.

Call Metro Gymnastics today at 503-620-8939, to register for the upcoming Fall sessions!

View current class schedules.

Mini-Movers

by Cindy Klein, Mini-Mover Gymnastics Director

Coming Fall 2009
Toddler Class on Saturday!
(ages 12mos till child turns 2 1/2)
**PARENT PARTICIPATION**
Call for 503-620-8939 for details.

What to Do When Your Child Is Unsportsmanlike

Many articles have been written about out-of-control athletes throwing tantrums, but what if your child is the offender?

Familyeducation.com has some tips on how to talk with your child about sports misbehavior:

• “It’s not like you to act like that on the field.” Try not to be accusatory. Let him know you understand there may have been an unusual circumstance behind his behavior. Did an opponent push you? Were you responding to a referee’s call?

• “It’s frustrating when that happens, isn’t it?” It’s always helpful to validate a child’s feelings, even if you’re not happy with her behavior.

• “That incident may happen again, so let’s think about other ways to cope.” Playing sports can be frustrating. Discuss with your child acceptable strategies to deal with pressure, questionable calls, and unfair opponents.

• “Everyone likes to win, but it’s more important that you have fun.” Put winning in perspective and show how to win and lose with honor. Be sincere about your feelings. Talk about times when winning or losing was important to you.

• “Does your coach pressure you too much to win? Do I?” Parents often don’t realize what example they’re setting for their child. Key signals are how you behave when you play sports or board games, when you watch your child play sports, and when an official, coach, or your child makes a mistake.

[life.familyeducation.com]

Club Metro

by Aimé Kelly, Club Metro Director

CLUB METRO begins Wednesday, September 9th.

For details regarding our AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM, please visit the Club Metro page.

Summer Camps

by Betsy Dunmire, Special Events Director

OUR LAST SUMMER CAMP!
August 3-7 - Call now to register!
Ages 3- school age!
See details at the Special Events page.
*Please see registration forms online*

Java Bean

Cool Off with Blended Mocha Coolers and Lattes!

Summer is FINALLY here. Stop by The Java Bean for a tasty cold treat. We have iced coffee's and if you have never tried our blended mocha cooler or blended latte you're in for a real treat. For those not wanting a coffee beverage we have fruit smoothies. Some of the favorites are: Mango, Pineapple Paradise, NW Berries, Key Lime Pie, Four Berry Blast, Strawberry Bananna, Blueberry Banana and Coconut. You can also add a syrup to make your own flavor. (ex. strawberry watermelon) We also carry Fruitfull bars, Healthy choice bars and frozen gogurt. Stop by today and cool off in the summer heat!

Ask the Coach

Wondering what’s the best class progression for your child? Not sure what kind of commitment is required to get your child into Team Gymnastics?

Just ask the Coach!

A new feature in The Metro Times, Ask the Coach is your resource for answers to all of your gymnastics questions. Each month, we’ll highlight a question (or two) and provide answers and useful information for all of our readers. Check back next month for the first installment of Ask the Coach… and send us your questions!

To Ask the Coach, simply email your question to:
info@metrogymnastics.com

Save a Teacher

Tigard School Teachers Need Your Help!
Metro Gymnastics is pleased to support the Tigard/Tualatin Foundation in an important project that will help raise money for one thing and one thing only… saving our teachers!

If you believe that our kids’ education is a priority, now is the time to show it. State budget cuts will have a direct and devastating effect on each of our 15 Tigard-Tualatin schools. Every student will suffer from the loss of talented, enthusiastic teachers; larger class sizes; and elimination or reduction of music, choir , PE, foreign language, art, after-school activities and high school athletics.

But together, we can make a difference! Our goal, to raise $1.3 million by the end of this summer, would provide enough funds to put one teacher back into every school in our district for the next two years (2009/2010 school year). We have to act now!

Show your support by purchasing a “Bridging the Gap” wristband at school. These bright green wristbands are available by filling out the following order form and dropping it off at the Templeton Office with a check. You can buy bracelets directly in the office or you can send an order in with your child and those orders will be filled twice a week and wristbands will be sent home with your child.

Adult size = $5.00
Child size = $3.00

Please donate more if you can so we can reach our goal even faster. There will be other fundraisers this summer that will also raise money just for this cause so look for them in the throughout the Tigard community. You can purchase your wristband at Metro Gymnastics next time you stop by. Download an Order Form

Fall Schedules

We are NOW enrolling for Fall Classes. Check out the Fall Schedules or you may call our office at 503-620-8939.

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