Learning to Skip

Now I don't mean learning to skip with a skipping rope - because Kayleigh was very good a skipping with a skipping rope - she was even in the top group at primary school in the skipping group they had. What I mean by learning to skip is the action like walking, running . . . . . .and skipping.

Now you would have thought Kayleigh would be really good at skipping, after all she was great at running and climbing and doing the monkey bars - but funny enough learning how to skip did not come naturally to her. At Pre-school the mid-year report was based on things such a balancing on the balance beam and sitting and paying attention and one of the things that Kayleigh rated low at was skipping. I tried to explain skipping to Kayleigh - I told her that it was like walking but with a small hop on each leg as you moved (how else can you explain skipping??) and showed her. The very next morning she decided to ''skip'' to school - which was her hopping twice on each leg all the way down. It looked . . . . .well . . . . ridiculous (try it yourself!!!!) - Kayleigh just couldn't get the rhythm of skipping. It hen told her to take a step before the hopping part so step, hop, step, hop, step, hop - which she did try and managed to trip herself over. You could see that she was thinking too hard about getting to right and not letting it come naturally. After that I pretty much think she gave up until Natassja showed her. Kayleigh wasn't much one for skipping, I hardly ever saw her skipping - running was her thing so that's what she did.