Bobbing
Free-style. We need work on this one. Acadia is more comfortable with putting her face in the water than she used to be, but still has a ways to go. She has a hard time keeping her face in the water while she swims. And instead of turning to the side, she lifts her head straight out of the water - which of course makes her feet sink and keeps her from swimming properly. However, even doing this is a huge improvement this year! Before lessons started in June, she wouldn't put her face in the water and couldn't float at all!
Back stroke. Here she is much better! She likes floating on her back, glide kicking on her back, and here she is practicing the back stroke. (Even though you can't see her arms moving much in this picture.) She swam on her back all the way to the other side of the pool!
Here they learn how to dive. When it was time to do the actual dive, the teacher held them and dove along side them. Hard to explain, but it worked and it really helped the kids.
Reward - going down the slide into the deep end! Acadia wanted the teacher to catch her, but the teacher knew Cadi could do it alone. Acadia went down and then swam (doggie paddled) to the edge all by herself!
Way to go, Cadi!
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