Madison is in the Level 3 lessons right now (goes up to Level 4). She is one of six kids taking lessons in her group, and once again this year, she's the only girl. The nice thing is all of the boys are her friends, and all of these kids took lessons together last year. She's also the youngest, as most of the boys just finished kindergarten.
She's doing VERY well. Level 3 starts to focus on the actual strokes, along with diving and swimming underwater for long lengths of time. We have been working on things at the pool when we go, and just last night, she was swimming really well under water for good distances. Her favorite thing is to go off the diving board. She hasn't mastered diving, but she loves jumping off of it. Today, they started working on diving techniques, and it was quite funny to watch. She would put her hands into a dive position and still jump into the water. We'll keep working on it :) She also thinks the backstroke is really funny, and it's so cute to watch her little self try to coordinate her arms and legs at the same time to do the backstroke. She's really doing a good job.
Here with one of her instructors
If you count, you see five kids. There are six in the class, but one of her friends, Gabe, got stitches (courtesy of Edward) from jumping and spinning as he entered the pool. He busted his chin and was out for a couple of days...let's just say none of the other kids want that to happen to them!
Moving their hands into diving motions
Working on their different kicks...at this point, they are working on kicking with the breast strokeLevel 3 has another week of lessons, and then, they'll start a new two-week-cycle of lessons.
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