Star of the Week!

This week Peirce is Star of the Week in his class. He wanted to share something special about himself, so we made this blog post!

STAR OF THE WEEK
L'ETOILE DE LA SEMAINE:

PEIRCE!!

Twice a week Peirce goes to swim practice.

First they stretch to warm up. Swimmers always do a good stretch first. They stretch their arms and legs and body. They give special attention to warming up their arms. Maybe you could ask Peirce to show you how they warm up their arms (especially how they swing their arms in opposite directions!)

In this video Peirce is practising streamlining.

They use the flutter boards so they can focus on their kick. It's good to have strong legs if you're a swimmer!

In this video he is practising backstroke. His coach says he has almost a perfect backstroke! His uncle was a backstroker and we think maybe Peirce will be too!

In this video you get to meet three coaches: Jello, Carmen and Tom. Carmen is Peirce's coach. Tom coaches the bigger kids. He swam in the Olympics! He is the only swimmer in Canadian history to win four Olympic medals in three different Olympic Games (1992, 1988 and 1984). Maybe one day we should invite him to school to show our class his medals!

At this swim practice they did some relays. This relay is a backstroke relay (although some kids forgot and swam freestyle)

And then they had a fun relay called The 8 Legged Relay!(But we can't get that video to download!)

Jill is a swimmer too! She doesn't like this picture though because she just finished doing butterfly and she was really tired!