Gymnastics involves many movements of the human body. There are varies exercises and performances completed in gymnastics which are performed at different levels of motor skills. This is what allows us to see how children advance in motor skills. As a young child many start off slow doing there activity the way the feel comfortable.

While I was observing the 5 and 6 year old children I noticed right from the start that the boys and girls seamed to get along with each other quite well. The boys in the group that I observed seamed to be very out going doing the stuff they were told to do and then some. While the girls seamed to be shy and quiet. Also the girls in general didn't seam to put as much enthusiasm into what they were doing.

When looking at behavior I found that the girls where behaved much better then the boys, always doing what they were told and staying in line. While the boys did what they were told, but at the same time they liked to jump around and they seamed to like to be near the teacher hanging off and trying to wrestle with him/her.

I found that the boys wanted to go through the action of

the drills more ethuasticly. One boy especially was always trying to butt in front of everyone else, so he could get more turns jumping off the spring horse. When he would try to do this the other boys in line would get mad and push him away. While the girls in the group wouldn't do anything. They didn't seam to mind at all.

There are many reasons why, the two groups boys vs. girls could be different. Parents of the children play a major role of the children's skill level. In my Gender class last year we learned that parent tend to treat boys as boys and girls as girls. What I mean by this is that girls usually get the girly toys like tea set and Barbie dolls while the boys get the baseball glove and guns. When a child is playing Barbie's there motor skills are not going to be as stimulated as if they were running around playing cowboys and Indians or catching pop flies at the baseball park.

There are many other reasons why some children's skills are more developed then others. Some being that if the child is involved in organized sports, if the parents are active and if the child actually likes to be active. All of these examples influence a child's skil

Some common words found in the essay are:
Gymnastics Gymnastics, motor skills, child's skills, highly populated, girls seamed, didn't seam, child involved, child lives, boys girls,
Approximate Word count = 787
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)