The Ms. Kip Fan Club

If the name Ms. Kip sounds familar, it is because you read it on this post about gymnastics. It turns out that Ms. Kip teaches swim lessons...all you need is a pool. Um, check! However, because I waited until our pool was not green, I couldn't get in until this past week. The lessons went for 4 days, but we didn't watch or take pictures until the last day.

Here is Ms. Kip instructing James and John:



They usually took turns as Ms. Kip would work with one:



and then the other:



James did really well. He learned to swim a little bit underwater and then flip over onto his back.



Ms. Kip had all these things to help them do things. One thing she did in order to get them to go underwater is she would ask them "do you want to eat ice cream or read a book?" James picked read a book. (?) Here is his transformer book:



and here he is reading the book:



If you were good, at the end you got the jump in!



Here are some videos of James swimming: