The kids just finished their first round of two-week swimming lessons. They are doing another two weeks of lessons starting this Monday. All three have enjoyed it very much, and their skills are really improving.
Luke has been in the Level 1/2 class. With that, he's learning his strokes, starting with freestyle. He really is a good athlete, as we've noted with him in sports, and swimming seems to be no different. He has quickly taken to freestyle and is getting very good at it. Luke really likes the backstroke, and he's enjoying learning it.
Alex's lesson is right before Luke's and Madison's. He's in the preschool group, the youngest and only boy. He is also the most daring of the group. When most won't even think of jumping in, Alex is there jumping and coming up laughing. He's really working on survival skills and staying afloat.
Madison has her lesson at the same time as Luke, but she's in the Level 3/4 class. Her class meets in the deep end of the pool, while Luke's class meets in the shallow end. She has really worked on improving her technique in diving, freestyle, and backstroke, along with learning the breast stroke this year. Because we had such great swimming lessons in Arizona that started at three-years-old and focused a lot on diving, she's way ahead of her class in diving. She's the youngest, by two years, of the kids in her class, but that hasn't stopped her at all. What is really funny is that she's the only kid in the class who would dive off the diving board, as pictured here. None of the other kids would do it even after Madison did! I think her teacher was unsure at first if she would and then thrilled she did. Madison's dives have gotten much cleaner over the last two weeks, and the dive she did above turned out to be a great one. I wish I could have gotten a picture, but I was too busy trying to watch it. She still dislikes the freesytle because of having to keep her head in the water, but she's gotten much better at it.
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