NEW AND EXCITING CLASSES COMING THIS FALL!

We are constantly looking for great classes to add to our offering every fall and this time we think we have done an outstanding job! A new music class for young children, a new academic class service, a new dance class and new gymnastic and acrobatic classes are all waiting for your child in our Woodward location!

Enid will be offering some of these classes at the beginning of the season and others will be added as soon as teachers are secured and trained.

So what is new, you ask? Well this is the FIRST PLACE we are revealing the information! So BLOG readers, congratulations on being the first to know!

Here is what we have been working on and cooking up for you this summer!

1. Academic Learning Coach Service for those enrolled with Oklahoma Connections Academy Public Virtual School. Combine their education, our learning coaches to assist your child and our great fine arts programs and you get SUCCESS!! Limited space so talk to us today!

2. Music Fun Time for ages 18 month through 7 years. This theory based learning style is fun, entertaining and academic! You can't lose with it as a class for your child!

3. Gymnastic Ballet Class. No worries about a gymnastic coach telling you that dance is not working with your gymnastics! We have them combined into a cutting edge technique ad performance class! This will blow your mind!

4. Acrobatic Dance is for our younger students that are not quite ready for the Gymnastic Ballet Class. Fun and physical!

5. Aerial Silks! If your child is in and has been in gymnastics and ballet classes, they can now take it to the air! This is NOT a class for just anyone, so you will need to find out more information to see is this can be a great class for your child.

Fall registration in now being accepted and all of our classes are limited in size to make for a better learning environment. Call us today at 580-256-3262 for more information or to get on the list for some of these classes that have not been added to the class offerings yet!

Why Dance May Be What Your Pre-Teen/Teen Needs

The Pre-teen and Teen years can be fun and difficult for the child and parent alike. For those living through those years,especially the pre-teens and teens, it can be confusing, emotional, and stressful.

Dance can be one of the best forces in dealing with the ups and downs of the pre-teen and teen years. Just ask the successful former students that now find themselves as doctors, mental health experts, teachers, graphic designers, real estate professional, financial planners, academics and more.

Dance gives a pre-teen or teen a safe avenue for creativity and expression when they feel that they are being shut down in other areas of their life. Dance also allows them an escape into something physical, and so it can relieve stress and emotions of the day, thus allowing them to be more calm and focused in school and at home. Working and moving with the music has an extra added benefit of connecting right brain and left brain activity.

Dance can be an escape for some teens and we have experienced that the most when there is difficulty at home, such as a pending divorce or illness of a parent or other family member. The studio can be a haven at these times of great stress and emotional upheaval. Over the years, some former students have actually stated that the studio is what saved them.

On a more upbeat leavel, dance can offer your young teens a better self image and higher self confidence (as demonstrated in the second paragraph of this article referring to former students). It can lift them beyond their current feelings and bring creativity and dreaming back into their lives.

Dance helps a young person to set goals and to learn to meet the smaller goals (process goals) that leads to the accomplishment of the main goal. Dance allows exploration without intimidation and humiliation. No one laughs at another in their dance class (if it does happen, then your child is at the wrong studio) because they are all working for the same goal. Dance teaches a young teen about true cooperation and not competition with others in the class.

Dance can bring back a smile to your teens face and sense of accomplishment when everywhere around them they feel like they cannot measure up to the standards. Dance will challenge them physically, mentally, emotionally. Dance can be the path to future successes in life.

Dance changes lives!

*Check out our face book page for the Woodward location at facebook.com/tumbledance&cheerproductions to leanr more about how dance has changed the lives of former students. Follow us on Twitter @FineArtsofOK

Trying To Find Money For More Classes?

Every family only has so much income to use for those special things such as classes for their children. But with some creativity and examination of a familie spending habits, they just may be surprised to find that there is extra money just hidding in their home that would allow for classes in ballet, music, tap, guitar, voice, art, karate, etc.

Mary Myers overs insights into where you can look within your own home and foind where hidden money is available. We encourage you to read this simple document that can help you to start thinking about where the Hidden $$$$ is in your home. You can find a copy of the document at www.youpublish.com