We have been talking about swim lessons for some time now...today Elena finally took her first swim lesson. The teacher, Ms. Sam, started by taking each kid into the water, spinning them while singing "motor boat, motor boat go so slow. Motor boat, motor boat go so fast. Motor boat, motor boat run out of gas." A familiar song to Elena, learned from Grandmazona.
They blew bubbles in the water, held their breath and put faces in the water, practiced kicking on the wall, crab crawled along the wall, jumped off the wall to Ms. Sam and swam back, and floated on their backs. Elena started off a little rough, she didn't like getting splashed in her face and struggled to hear/listen to the teacher but once she warmed up she had a blast. She was super proud of herself when she held her breath like a balloon and put her head in the water.
Can we go back in???
She will go to swim twice a week for three weeks. Thursday, Charlie and I will bring suits and swim during Elena's lesson and then she can join us afterward. The pool was nearly empty on a hot day with temps in the 90s at 10:30am. Pool temp was 82 degrees...sounded wonderful :)
Can I join?
ReplyDeleteSure Mom, come on over :)
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