First swimming lesson

General 

Elliott was really good after school today, especially considering how active everything was.

Activities

Straight after school we went to Carnival Pool for his first ever swimming lesson. He had a red swimming cap to wear so the teachers knew what class he was in. There were about 6 people in his class and they spent most of the half hour lesson learning to kick with a float, and learning to do front crawl arms. He did really well considering there have been some lessons this term already and he seemed to be mainly listening to the teacher. At the end they had 5 minutes of playing on the water slide and with some toys (watering cans, etc). He said he enjoyed the lesson although he seemed a bit frustrated he was a little behind the others but I told him he'd tried really hard and just to keep trying - he definitely wanted to come back next week. He also thought he should have won a swimming award so I explained that was only for football. After swimming he also had a shower and washed his hair, etc (with some help). We had a pasta and bacon sauce tea when we got home and he had some yogurt raisins with apple and blackcurrant smoothie. Then he did his homework and did it really well and quickly - we went for apple, raisins and tomato (pasta sauce) in the diary and he also did the first part of the familiar words but there are still some boxes to fill in. He did stall on doing his homework a bit, but once he got to the table he was really good so I gave him lots of praise. We also read "Shhh!" before bed time and he did really well with that as well.