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28 - The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday September 13, 2006 www.oakvillebeaver.com FALL REGISTRATION Oakville toddlers learn to play sports Director & Teacher - Laura Dacyshyn, former dancer with The National Ballet of Canada Thank you for our Platinum award for Best Children's Dance Instruction Ballet · Jazz · Hip Hop Tap · Adult & Teen Classes Recreational & Competitive Divisions Space is still available in some classes!!! Please call for more information 905-815-9239 447 Speers Rd., #5, Oakville, L6K 3S7 or visit our website at: allegrodance.ca Irish Dance Lessons with the GOGGIN-CARROLL SCHOOL OF IRISH DANCE Recreational or Competitive Programs For Children ages 5 and up Accepting Dancers for our Beginner Fall Programs Classes Starting Now For More Information, call (905) 844-0333 or email barb@goggin-carroll.com or visit us on the web at www.goggin-carroll.com Oakville toddlers will soon be learning to kick, throw, bounce and hit balls as Sportball rolls out its first Sportball Junior program here. For the first time, children who are just 16 - 24 months old 2006-2007 Winter Basketball House League September - March will have the opportunity to be introduced to sports skills in a fun, Registration inquiries: registrar@oakvillebasketball.com age-appropriate and noncompetitive way. 2006-2007 REP TRYOUTS Sportball Junior is the perfect introduction to Sportball for chilOBC will be having rep tryouts in several age groups this year dren who are 16-24 months old. The program delights the toddlers NOVICE BOYS BORN 1997/98 MAJOR BANTAM GIRLS ­ 1993 MAJOR BANTAM BOYS ­ 1993 Saturday 16th 3-5pm at KCC Thursday 14th 6:30-8pm KCC Sunday 17th 11am-1pm Oaklands with stories, singing and bubble time, but what makes it truly Thursday 21st 6-8pm KCC Sunday 17th 1-3pm Oaklands Thursday 21st 8-10pm KCC Sunday 24th 9-11am Oaklands Saturday 23rd 7-9pm KCC Sunday 24th 1-3pm Oaklands unique is the way it introduces sport to these little ones. Using ATOM BOYS ­ 1996 NOVICE GIRLS ­ 1997-98 MIDGET GIRLS ­ 1992 simplified language, such as `run', `kick' and `throw', coaches Saturday 16th 7-9pm KCC Saturday 16th 11am-1pm KCC Saturday 16th 5-7pm KCC Monday 18th 6-7:45pm KCC Tuesday 19th 6-7:30pm KCC Monday 18th 7:45-9:45pm KCC demonstrate skills and parents assist their children, one on one, Sunday 24th 11am-1pm Oaklands Saturday 23rd 11am-1pm KCC Saturday 23rd 3-5pm KCC according to their skill level. Just like older children in a Sportball BANTAM BOYS ­ 1994 MAJOR ATOM GIRLS ­ 1995 MAJOR MIDGET BOYS ­ 1991 class, Sportball Junior participants learn the skills of a different Saturday 16th 1-3pm KCC Friday 15th 6:30-8:30pm Syl Apps Sunday 17th 3-5pm Oakland Sunday 24th 3-5pm Oaklands Tuesday 19th 7:30-9:30pm KCC Sunday 17th 9-11am Oaklands sport each week: soccer, hockey, basketball, baseball, volleyball, Saturday 23rd 3-5pm KC tennis and golf. The Sportball program, available for children up to age 8, provides youngsters with a chance to learn fundamental athletic skills in a non-competitive environment with boys and girls their own age. Sportball sessions incorporate a proven curriculum structure with expert individual instruction and a supportive environment of positive encouragement and fun. The goal of the program is to help children develop both physically and "An outstanding program! mentally. Sportball helps improve balance, gained control of my strength, coordination, stamina and timing as well as concentration, listening skills, own health and am now cooperation and self-confidence. able to teach others." Sportball Junior is the youngest baby of PH-Class 2003 Carmella Gelgor, who with her husband Mark founded Sportball in 1995. "My primary motivator has always been how to make a difference in the lives of children, and we are so proud that this beautiful program is now REGISTER NOW FOR SEPTEMBER DAY & EVENING CLASSES reaching more than 4000 Canadian children every week." Carmella's academic background includes an honours degree in primary education with a major in physical education, and she 1107 Lorne Park Road Suite 205, Mississauga taught in schools for 10 years before creating (905) 891-0024 www.csnn.ca Sportball. Although Sportball was originally designed for children ages 2-8, after Carmella became a mother she saw clearly what very young children could learn to do. As a parent and as an educator she saw that introducing sport using the correct methodology and creative techniques in an age-appropriate way, young children could learn so much more than people generally expect. For Sportball Junior, coaches need to be exceptionally well prepared. Not only do they need to be ready with stories, rhymes and State of the Art props, but they also need to innovate during cience: and between classes, to adapt to the behavt International iour and development of the children in certification their class. Keeping little ones, who have a short concentration span, interested and early) engaged requires energy and skill. um shape recovery · Transitions between activities are quick and progressions are short. Participating in ates for faster results · Sportball Junior programs helps these very young children learn to listen, follow direcaughter classes · tions, interact with their mom or dad and focus on an activity. Parents enjoy finding d conditioning for · new ways to encourage and play with their adult sports children. "Sportball helps the children learn life fitness · skills through sport," says Tracy Leach, whose son Miles was in Sportball Junior from ed Golf and Racquet · 16 months right through to age 2. grams She credits Sportball Junior with teaching her son how to follow instructions, put n our on-site studio things away, stop when asked and walk in a child attends line - all things he will need to know how to ademy for the Arts do when he goes to preschool. Tracy also finds the Sportball coaches to be extremely e our unique respectful of the children. "They really know ffering individual how to talk to children and keep their interon at group cost t est in a way that appeals to kids. It's something you don't find in a lot of classes," she says. Like other Sportball coaches, Sportball Junior coaches have strong educational backgrounds in fields such as early childhood il t @ ilates@cogeco.ca education, sports administration, occupational therapy, kinesiology or drama. All coaches are thoroughly screened and under LEARN THE of the Medicine Future DIPLOMA PROGRAM Registered Holistic Nutritionist (R.H.N) R.N.C.P. Canadian School Of Natural Nutrition Healthy mother, Healthy child e Pilates 905 466 5977 I N T E L L I G E N T E X ER C I S E . P R O F O U N D R E S U LT S . © Continued on Page 29