Our Unschooling Adventure - which officially started in Lowell in the Fall of 2005 - now continues in Berlin.

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Swimming and More Reading

Last week we joined the swimming pool at the Radisson hotel in Chelmsford. The hours are much better than at the Y, and it costs only $400 for the whole year for the whole family. Manisha has taken the kids there twice already. Supriya is making steady progress and enjoys the water with her snorkel & the noodle. Aseem is still too scared and clung to Manisha the whole time today - but at least he is getting himself into the water.

Supriya went in for 2 sessions of swimming lessons, but they kept going at their own pace and she was really miserable. Since we started the no-pressure, have-fun-in-the-water family swim time, Supriya has made very good progress (I am sure the alert reader will not miss the obvious lesson here!) and is now swimming like a fish (albeit with her head above water). With her enormous upper-body strength, I can definitely see her going far in the competitive swimming arena if she wants to.

Supriya read a few pages of "Put Me in the Zoo" a while ago. It is slow going, but she is keeping at it.

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