Bus Crash

Eeeesh! This morning a school bus in Calgary crashed. It's in the neighborhood next to us. Children on the bus may be people we know as they were heading to the other French Immersion school in our area. Scary!

Can you see the van in the yard that is upside down?!

Great Job Jill!!

Jill had a great swim meet this weekend. She worked really hard last year to try to achieve a "B" time but didn't quite make it. There were lots of tears, and then, once swimming was over for the year she decided to move forward with a clenched jaw and prepare to make it happen this year. She made a point of working out all summer either by bike riding or swimming every day. This past weekend she had her first swim meet of the year. And wow!! She did great!

On Friday night they did 400 free....and she got her MQT. I was particular entertained because she said she really didn't try that hard and she had even stopped at one point because she thought she was finished when she wasn't (she says she' terrible at counting lengths!).

Then on Saturday she had three races 100 breast, 200 IM and 100 back. She got a B time for both 100 breast and 200 IM!

This means she no longer can go to League Meets. Time to adjust our calender! Now she'll be swimming in the "B" swimmer meets and working towards her "A" times. She's excited because getting a B time was her goal for this swimming year - and she already did it....so now it's time to adjust the goal and go for the "A"!

All day Sunday she could hardly wipe the smile off her face. She kept coming up to me and saying, "Hey! Did you know I got an MQT, and two B times this weekend?!" And I'd say, "Really?!" ....as though it was the first time she'd told me.

Funny girl.

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!