We enrolled the girls in one last session of swim lessons and today was their last day. Emily did awesome, as usual, and completed level 5. They mostly worked on perfecting their basic swim strokes (i.e. front and back crawl, breast stroke and butterfly) but they also got to learn how to tread water (properly) and she learned the elementary backstroke. They also worked on their endurance a bit by swimming laps using the different strokes they were working on.
Caitlyn did much better this time around (although she almost didn't get to go swimming at all due to a mild ear infection the week before swim lessons were to begin). She is a lot more comfortable in the pool now. She's still not a real strong swimmer, but she is coming along pretty well. The only thing she seemed hesitant in doing for her teacher was learning how to dive...which is weird, because we went swimming at the pool once during their open swim hours and she practiced diving at least 20 times based on what her previous teacher had taught her.
If she would actually do it in her class, she would find that she could do it at least as good, if not better than any of her classmates. She is so weird and stubborn sometimes. I think she ended up doing it only once, but luckily, it isn't something they need to do in order to pass her level, so she did complete level 3 this time around and will be able to move on to level 4 next year.
They had different class times because there was not a level 3 and 5 class at the same time, so we set them up back to back and I had to stand in the heat for a whole hour while they did their swim lessons. It was less than pleasant as the past two weeks have been excruciatingly hot. The heat is not letting up so far and school starts in another week!
