Swim Holiday Program

Before the holidays, we asked Ellie if she wanted to do the school holiday program.  It consists of a normal swim lesson, 45 minutes, each day for a week.  She eagerly said yes!  As we were discussing the schedule, we found out that Ellie could do a second week for half price.  Not thinking Ellie would say yes, we asked her.  Not only did she say “Yes”, she had a huge smile. Ellie swam 5 days straight for class, then the next day for fun with a friend.  Finally took Sunday off and then swam the next 5 days in a row. 

This was not an easy class at all. It was not one her regular two teachers.  It turned out to be a teacher of a higher level that works in the swim club pool and also for swim club.  She had the kids doing lap after lap.  Then they had races at the end of the lessons. 

Ellie had been trying to move up to the next level and the one thing holding her back was her breast stroke kick. The next level is where they start learning butterfly and they need to know to other strokes perfectly.  During the second lesson, Erin pulled Ellie aside and said to do the breast stroke kick like this.  That’s all it took, a little different instruction and Ellie was off with a perfect stroke!