I am learning so much teaching Zumbatomic! With little kids, you really have to be animated and focus all your attention on encouraging the kids any way you can. And yet, these kids have taught me sooo much! They really like it, every week they come and join in, shy or not. They like playing the games; they like using the jingly belts, and so on. 

I have also established a little "rewards" system where I've told them if I see that they are "sweating", they may get a "prize" at the end of class.  So far, so good!

Of course, we never "reward" with food or candy.