Jack took swim lessons this summer with Emler swim school. He loves water so I thought this would be good for him. He enjoyed his classes most of the time. He had about 7 classes, once a week at 6pm. Not the best time and towards the end of summer when we started transitioning to 1 nap a day, you could tell. He was tired.
We did the same thing at each lesson. Getting in their boats and kicking to get the balls.
We also sat on the "magic carpet" which Jack LOVED. This was his favorite. They have a huge Styrofoam square that the kids can sit on and crawl on so that they get used to the buoyancy of water.
Some of the other things we did were sing some songs. One of them was "the babies in the pool go up and down"
And "the babies in the pool go kick, kick, kick"
Near the end of each lesson that kids get to slide down the slide and go underwater. Jack loves to slide so he usually likes it. But as the lessons went on, he swam underwater for longer periods of time. And I don't think he was too thrilled about going under water again in this video. Oh and the other thing I need to mention is that Jack always had his mouth open when going underwater. I guess one day he'll learn that you have to close your mouth when you go underwater.
Right before it's time to go each baby gets to sit on the "magic carpet" while everyone else in the class sings "bye bye Jack". Then they "jump" off the mat and swim. Yes, that is Jack "crying" that you can hear but he does so well...you can see him kicking when he "jumps" off the mat.
I think one of the main things Jack took away from this was learning to sing the song "bye, bye, baby". We replaced the kids name with baby and started to sing it a lot. Then Jack started to sing it. Here is a video of Jack singing.
