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Tumblebugs TM

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Jittabugs Baby Massage  (suitable for age 0-crawling)

TUTORS TEACHING BABY MASSAGE- CAROLINE ASHWORTH (LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE)

Baby massage has many benefits to both the care giver and the child, and can be started from birth onwards.

Even premature babies benefit from still touch, and massage.
Each instructor is certified by the International Association of Infant Massage. 

They have completed the process for certification, having attended the four days training with a certified IAIM trainer,

did their practice teachings with families and completed with success their exam and evaluations.
Are allowed to teach massage to parents or direct caregivers in the presence of the babies or the children.

Are allowed to do in services or talks about infant massage with the goal of bringing parents in classes.

Must respect IAIM policies to stay a CIMI (certified infant massage instructor) member of the IAIM

*Taken from the IAIM website

Benefits of Massage

(for babies, mums and dads)

• * Infant-Parent attachment or "bonding"*
• * Relaxation
• * Makes baby feel loved
• * Promotes better sleep
• * Facilitates body awareness
• * Boosts immune system
• * Sensory stimulation
• * Improves skin condition
• * Improves blood circulation
• * Helps digestion
• * Balances respiration
• * Relief for teething pains
• * Help waste elimination
• * Helps build parents' and baby's self-esteem
• * Helps you learn about your baby (their needs and desires)
• * Relaxes parents
• * Pleasurable experience
• * Stimulates production of oxytocin (Oxytocin is a hormone which can be produced by both male and female persons during massage. It is useful as a pain reliever and has a calming effect on the person.)

* Bonding is: love, security, connection, acceptance, peace, caring, happiness, interaction, empathy, unity, warmth, joy, communication and familiarity.
Bonding may be experienced through eye contact, touch, smell, taste and listening
"Bonding is a unique relationship between two people. It is specific and endures through time." M. KLAUS

The Classes

The classes are designed to enhance the bonding between care giver and child and not only promote Baby Massage, but look at reading babies cues, understanding your child, relaxation and stimulation.

We offer a 5 weeks course to learn the basics of Baby Massage and Bonding, after which you will be invited to our ongoing classes to keep your bond with your group, to enhance your bonding and massage skills and to socialize on a regular basis.


BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE MASSAGE COURSES.

Jittabugs Baby Sign & Play (0-2yrs)

TUTORS TEACHING BABY SIGN & PLAY - CAROLINE ASHWORTH & HAYLEY - (LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE ), ARLENE McCORMACK-GLASGOW , EMMA WHYLEY- FIFE,  YVONNE TOLLAND- (CAMBRIDGESHIRE), KAREN BROWNSELL - (MANCHESTER/STOCKPORT)

Baby Multi- Sensory Play

Our multi sensory play can range from playing with bubbles, to playing with shiny fabrics and huge reflective balls.  No two classes are the same.

We use brightly coloured parachutes, fibre optic lighting, sensory balls, baby mirrors, feathers for tickling, coloured scarves and much , much more. We then read our class book – which is low key and perfect for cuddling and perfect for winding down.

We sing a "Goodbye" song and then have a chat and socialize with each other.

We sing songs mums should all know like "If you're Happy and you Know it Clap your Hands" and" Old Macdonald had a Farm EIEIO! So mums should be prepared to have fun and a good sing a long!

Jittabugs Baby Move & Groove   TM (0-2yrs)

 TUTORS TEACHING BABY MOVE & GROOVE - CAROLINE ASHWORTH, EMMA WHYLEY, ARLENE MACCORMACK, RACHEL FERGUSON, KAREN BROWNSELL  - (LANCASHIRE, YORKSHIRE, MANCHESTER, STOCKPORT, FIFE, GLASGOW, NEWCASTLE, NORTHUMBERLAND, LONDON, EAST ANGLIA)

Baby Move & Groove is a wonderful class for children aged 0-2yrs old.

• Strengthens leg and back muscles aiding movement. Opens the hip and knees joints and keeps them flexible.
• Helps them to gain strength to reach essential milestones.
• Stretches the chest, enabling deeper breathing for baby.
• Develops balance helping sitting, crawling and walking.
• Stimulates the internal systems and keeps the organs healthy.
• Strengthens the immune system.
• Helps prevent and relieve colic and constipation, good to get rid of trapped wind.
• Helps promote sleep.
• Facilitates positive play, learning, bonding and interaction with other people.
• An interest for music

The Benefits of Movement, Singing and Music for Baby/Toddler

Listening to mum or dad sing will often calm and relax a baby and may help the baby fall asleep. It makes no difference if you cannot sing in tune and it doesnt matter if you dont know all the words to a song .

Introduce various musical styles such as classical, Jazz, pop, latin and anything that you particularly like. A wide variety of music in a child's life will provide a rich musical environment for the child to grow up in.

Providing an environment  in different sounds, smells, tastes, textures, and interesting things to see will benefit your baby.  Songs where you can join in the actions, such as hand motions and sing-alongs, is the best way to encourage baby's development but just listening to music is beneficial.

When a baby is born he is already able to recognize familiar tunes and songs and distinguish between the voice of his parents and any other voice. Baby’s show a preference for a song sung by their own mum than songs on CDs.

How Babies Respond to Music (Research)

    * Birth to Six Months: At this young age most babies respond to music playing that they enjoy with full body movements and wiggles. They will turn their heads towards sounds that catch their attentions and cry in response to unpleasant noises. Babies show a preference for songs sung by mum or dad so it is better for parents to rock and sing to their babies rather than putting in a CD with a stranger singing the lullabies instead.

    * Six Months to One Year: As an infant's eye-hand coordination develops and they become more mobile, babies will grasp and manipulate objects. This means that a baby can shake a rattle and understands that the shaking causes the noise to occur. Babies begin to clap their hands in response to music and this should be encouraged and demonstrated by the adults around them. By the time she turns a year a baby will understand the purpose of an instrument such as a drum or keyboard and understand how to produce the music and sound.


So enjoy music, sing, play, dance and move with your babies in a wide variety of ways throughout the day.

There are a variety of movement and dance classes aimed at young children, but do they have any particular benefit?

It is well documented that being active is important for all ages and getting children interested in being physically active from a young age is great. For toddlers who can now toddle,   suddenly have a huge amount to explore . The ability and function of their own bodies is no exception. They suddenly tend to become very active, wanting to move around and explore whenever and wherever they get the opportunity.

Toddling around is certainly beneficial, but for a young growing child, it also helps them to learn more about how they can move their bodies and exercise different parts. Jittabugs is a great introduction to being active and doing physical exercise. Plus it helps to develop key skills, such as coordination, balance, flexibility, strength, stamina, discipline and even memory. Being active in this way also helps boost a child’s self-esteem, make them feel good about their own abilities and increase their self-confidence.

(The information above has been researched on the net but author unknown, if the author comes forward JittaBugs will be happy to publish their name)

The Classes

Caroline Ashworth is an accredited Baby Yoga Instructor, (accredited by ASET). And a qualified Dance Instructor( I.S.T.D) . The classes are designed to support parents/carers to become confident with a range of movement that enhance the well-being of babies and carer.

The classes are fun and packed full of movement & music for babies!
We get everyone involved by singing well-known songs and nursery rhymes and to JittaBugs own CD's.  The louder the better and it doesn’t matter if you can't sing it’s enjoying it that matters.

We use musical instruments and encourage babies to shake and bang.  We have small light instruments for very little hands.

All our tutors receive  intensive training from Jittabugs.

The classes focus on movement and relaxation.

MESSYBUGS TM

Messybugs Craft and Messy Play programme

This is the latest program to be added to JittaBugs. This is a craft and messyplay class with a difference. All children love to messyplay but not all adults want children to messyplay at home, and who can blame them.

This is where we come in!!!

Messyplay has many benefits to children’s cognitive and creative development. At home we are always saying “Don’t make a mess” but at JittaBugs we are saying “Let’s get Messy”.

It is a wonderful way for children to learn, explore and develop using all of their senses.

At Messybugs we sing our JittaBugs Hello song and then begin with a message from Mr JittaBug , Mr JittaBugs explains that he would like to tell a story but in order for the story to come alive he needs the children to make some things for him.

This is where the organized craft come in, each week we make, paint, colour, build something different with the help of mummy/daddy/carer of course. Whilst waiting for our items to dry we can then explore with messy play with aprons supplied.

Sand play – toys, buckets, spades, shapes, pipes

Water play – toys, pipes, guttering, funnels

Cornflour – exploring how when mixed with the water initially the cornflour is hard and then it drips through your fingers!!! A strange sensation.

Pasta – Wet and dry

Hand and Foot prints

And much much more.

Then it’s time to make the story come alive with the use of our crafts that we have just made. This is excellent for children’s imagination and creativity as they get to help with the story. The benifits of story time are also great as it is an important part of teaching our children how to read as children learn how to read by being read to.

It also develops their creativity and imagination.

Builds on listening skills an important skill in life.

Helps them to express themselves.

It teaches them about the world around us and experiences and feelings.

We finish the class with a song and then we encourage tidy up time, another important skill for children to have.

We hope this sounds as exciting to you as it does to us and we hope to see you there.

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Jittabugs Family Move & Groove   TM(Mums/Dads/Carers with babies)

TUTORS TEACHING SLING TIME MOVE & GROOVE- Caroline Ashworth (Lancashire), Sylvia Johnstone (London)

This is a new program and is for mums/dads/grandparents with babies that can still be carried around in a sling/carrier/back pack or in your arms and walking toddlers. 

It is a Dance/Fitness Class for mums to burn off baby weight by doing dance of all styles focusing mainiy on salsa and gentle aerobics and enjoy a class without having to leave baby. We dance and exercise whilst carrying our baby in a sling/carrier/back pack or in your arms. We then do some gentle floor exercises with baby out of the sling combined with baby play. Babies love to listen to the music and love to dance with mum.

The program has been devised by a qualified dance/fitness instructor who has spent many years training in dance and has a recognized R.S.A fitness qualification. This program is safe and gentle for new mums and for babies too. The dance is very low impact and easy for beginners and the floor exercises have been adapted for new mums with babies.

Our Family Move & Groove classes are a way to meet other mums who too have young babies . It is a perfect way to get back into shape and enjoy having your baby with you. So if you want to have some fun, lose some weight try a bit of Gentle Disco, Latin American, Salsa, Burlesque, Gentle Street, Gentle Hip Hop all combined with aerobics then this is the class for you!

When baby grows out of the sling the fun doesn't have to stop there, you can keep on coming to class with toddler and they can dance with you.

WHERE TO FIND CLASSES

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Jittabugs Fun & Fitness (all ages)

 TUTORS TEACHING FUN AND FITNESS - CAROLINE ASHWORTH -(LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE)

Jittabugs Pre-School Move & Groove  TM (2-6yrs)

 TUTORS TEACHING PRE-SCHOOL MOVE & GROOVE - CAROLINE ASHWORTH, EMMA WHYLEY, YVONNE TOLLAND, ARLENE MCCORMACK, SYLVIA JOHNSTON, NAZ, LAUREN, LILIAN, KAREN BROWNSELL - (LANCASHIRE, YORKSHIRE, LONDON, EAST ANGLIA, FIFE, GLASGOW, MANCHESTER, STOCKPORT)

Classes in Movement, Drama, Singing & Music for 2-6yrs.

Here at Jittabugs we love to move and groove, jump and slide, pretend and play, sing and glide. Jiggle and a wiggle, a tip, tap, toe. Join the boogie woogie, Give it a go.'

Jittabugs works in line with the Early years Foundation Stage, so not only are picture these classes fun but they are educational too and we work on themes each week. This is very important for child development, personal, social and emotional, communication, physical development, hand eye co-ordination, creative development and many more.

Themes include The seasons, Bonfire night, Chinese New Year, Christmas, Dinosaurs, Easter, Mother's day, Valentines Day, Fairies and Goblins, Emotions and many, many more.

Early learning is the key to your child’s future and activities make the greatest difference at this stage, children learn through play.

Children are active learners, Tell me and I'll forget, Show me and I'll remember, Let me do it and I'll understand!

Benefits of Jittabugs  Pre-School Move & Groove Classes


    * Improve Self-confidence
    * Improve communication skills
    * Encourage creativity
    * Team Work
    * Use of Imagination
    * Develop Poise
    * Improve Concentration

CLASSES

Classes are designed for children aged between two and six years old.
Every class will start with a warm up, we will work on spatial awareness, up and down, side to side, moving and stopping, team work, partner work and solo work, co-ordination and balance. Mime, acting, singing, dance, drama games, lets pretend and much more then a calm down at the end.

AIMS

Jittabugs aims to provide quality classes in movement, drama and singing for children aged between 2 and 6 years.

The children work in age groups to ensure they reach their potential in the classes. Tutors aim to make these classes above all FUN! The classes will aim to develop confidence, communication skills, encourage creativity, teamwork and the use of imagination and develop poise.

DISCIPLINE

Disciplined behavior is important in all walks of life so Jittabugs educates children in self discipline in an environment of obedience combined with FUN!

THIS PROGRAM IS AN EXCELLENT PROGRAM FOR NURSERIES & PRE-SCHOOLS MEETING ALL YOUR EYFS GUIDELINES, CONTACT ONE OF OUR TUTORS FOR A FREE TRIAL.

Jittabugs Movement, Music & Play Sessions (0-5yrs) Whalley, Lancashire

TUTORS OFFERING THESE SESSIONS-CAROLINE ASHWORTH,  & HAYLEY EUSTON -(LANCASHIRE & YORKSHIRE)

Songs, Rhymes, Signs, Story Time, Shiny Time, Toddler Soft Play area, Balls, Ball pit, Inflatable’s, Bubbles and much, much more to stimulate those tiny senses.

This class is for all babies and toddlers and is just a general mix of classes with tea/coffee and biscuits on offer. An excellent way to meet other mums/dads/grandparents/carers.

Jittabugs Cheerleading age 5-9yrs

 TUTORS TEACHING CHEERLEADING-CAROLINE ASHWORTH-(LANCASHIRE), HATYLEY EASTON -(LANCASHIRE)

This class will introduce the basics of cheerleading. The children will work on dance, tumbling and basic gymnastics. They will use basic arm motions, tuck and straddle jumps, forward rolls and cartwheels. The children will work on dance, tumbling and basic gymnastics. They will also learn popular routines to popular street music, theatre music and the ever popular high school musical music.

Jittabugs Street Dance age (5-11yrs) / (10-16yrs) 

TUTORS OFFERING THESES CLASSES -CAROLINE ASHWORTH - (LANCASHIRE), HAYLEY EASTON -(LANCASHIRE)

Fancy yourself as the next George Sampson or the next Rhianna then this is the class for you.

Boys and Girls welcome!

Warm up your body then get down and bust some moves to popular street chart music.

All levels welcome, an excellent way to keep fit and learn some moves to show off at that school disco.

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ZumbAtomic

WHAT'S THE DEAL?

Zumbatomic®: The Fitness Program

Sure, chillin’ out is cool. But rockin’ out is a blast! That’s why you’re gonna love the Zumbatomic® fitness program for kids. It’s a fast-forward fusion of the Zumba program’s moves (salsa, cumbia, reggaeton, hip-hop and more) and high-octane workouts designed to let kids ages 4-12 max out on fun and fitness all at the same time. Safe and effective, kids can’t wait to get into the Zumbatomic groove. Watch their energy and fitness levels soar as they get the groove.

TUTORS OFFERING THESE SESSIONS- CAROLINE ASHWORTH, SYLVIA JOHNSTONE-(LANCASHIRE,YORKSHIRE , LONDON)

FOR MORE DETAILS VISIT www.zumbatomic.com

Jittabugs Adult Classes   (ZUMBA)

Suitable for all fitness levels.

 TUTORS OFFERING THESES SESSIONS - CAROLINE ASHWORTH, SYLVIA JOHNSTONE -(LANCASHIRE, YORKSHIRE, LONDON)

Zumba classes for adults.  Zumba is a Latin inspired, dance – fitness class that incorporates Latin and international music and dance movements, which create a dynamic, exciting, and effective fitness system!

Join The Party, Ditch The Workout!

For more details on Zumba visit www.zumba.com