WEE Sports

My friend and I enrolled our girls into a "wee sports" class at one of the community centers here in Lubbock. She origionally wanted to sign her daughter up for basketball, but she wanted to do soccer. I found this wee sports class that had basketball, tee-ball, and soccer and jumped at the idea. It's a 10 week class so I thought it would be good for the girls to get a chance to practice all of them and get a basic idea of how to play them all (since I have NO clue how to teach her myself, haha)and then she coudl choose next year what she liked best!

The first class was the night before the big winter storm hit so the class was inside. They were limited on space so the kids played hockey...the girls were not fans.

The next class they played basketball. The girls were not fans. They couldn't dribble the ball and were definitely afraid of the 8 boys launching the adult size basketballs at their faces. Their were lots of tears from both of them. We stuck it out though.

The next class they played a basketball game. We were in Wichita Falls, thank goodness.

Today they played a basketball "game" again for the first half. Ella was VERY standoffish but I coerced her into participating (bribed her with the park next door). She still can't dribble, but really tried! and even made a goal! A+ for effort!! That's ALL that matters to me.

They also practiced catching/throwing the plastic softballs and pitching them into the target net. Again, she looked at me like she was miserable, but stuck it out and did an awesome job!

The problem isn't that she doesn't want to learn. It's that there are all boys in the class (except Pearl) and some of them are way older (have to be almost 5!). They are all boy too..they know how to dribble, they have played all these before, and they are awesome at being rough...Ella is not. She's around me all day!! So glad she is being a good sport about it and is participating!They will play tee-ball for a couple more weeks then HOPEFULLY we will move on to soccer! Oh, the other problem is that the teacher has NO clue how to teach or talk to 3 year olds. I won't even go into the details, but she is less than encouraging to the girls or the little boys are don't know what they are doing. buuttt I guess it is a 35 dollar class through the community center, so I guess you get what you pay for! The teacher that was supposed to teach, backed out last minute so they scrambled and found a trainer. Shes real nice-just not great with the little ones. Like I said though, it's a good experience though for Ella and it helps me see what I need to be teaching her to get ready to play sports!

Here are some from the first day of class. She is running around testing out her new kicks! Which BTW, she wears and 11 now and that means she is in the "big girl shoes" where a pair of Nike's run you like $60!! I can get a pair for 80 or 90! Crazy-ness.





These were from the second day...the first day of basketball.


ella is in the cool colored hat ;)








meanwhile in the car...