Legacy Lawrenceville Activities
PLAYBALL is an early sports and movement program offered to children between 2 to 9 years of age that actively incorporates the development of life skills through the means of sports skills. We teach the basics of 12 different sports skills. The life skills learned include confidence, sportsmanship, cooperation, independence, flexibility, responsibility, persistence, leadership, goal setting, self worth, respect, positive relations, decision making, courage, and communication.
It has been scientifically proven that physical activity has a profound influence on academic performance. PLAYBALL provides children at Legacy Academy with an opportunity to develop every aspect of their lives. PLAYBALL staff are actively involved in the implementation of the PLAYBALL program at Legacy Academy Lawrenceville and provide on-going training to coaches every 12 weeks.
Mrs. Kleckley is our very talented music teacher. She studied music in high school and college and has taught music for seven years. Her experience includes singing at the Atlanta Braves Game three times, performing at concerts at her church and conferences with audiences numbering in the thousands, and she sang back-up vocals on a Grammy award winning artist's recording. She says the children bring her as much joy and love as she does them, and thanks the Legacy Academy parents for allowing her to bring the joy of music and song to their children.
We believe that music can help us focus on the children's social needs, such as enabling them to "let down" and "open up." This way they can take in more information and actually remember it. Something that educators have known for many years about small children is that "their work is their play." So, if we can get them fully engaged in a song, using as many of their senses as possible at one time, then they become a fertile ground for learning.
