Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Map and Swimming



Map walking to see cats
    Map's latest vocabularies since last blog 


    • Jirt (for shirt)
    • Cold (for cold)
    • Hug (for hug)
    • Huggie (for hug)
    • Wajer (for water)
    • No (for no)
    • Yeah (for yes)
    • Watch (for watch)
    • What (for what)
    • Why (for why)
    • No-ty (for naughty)
    • No-sy (for noisy)
    • Door (for door)
    • TV (for TV)
    • Ju (for juice)
    • Tee (for tree)
    • Book (for book)
    • Walk (for walk)
    • Work (for work)
    • Hippo (for hippo)
    • Eat (for eat)
    • Milk (for milk)
    • Cook-ki (for cookie)
    • Birch (for bird)
    • Read a book (for read a book) - yes, this was the first 3-word sentence she spoke
    • Nam (for 'water' in Thai)
    • Oau (for 'want' in Thai)
    • Mai-oau (for 'don't want' in Thai)
    • Ook (for 'out' in Thai)


    Map had been swimming since she was 8-months old with AquaDuck.  At the end of Feb, AquaDuck held the Swimming Awards Week to monitor the progress the children were making.  



    Map and the Duckling Level 3 Award 



    Map got "Duckling Award Level 3" as she demonstrated the following:

    1. Unassisted jumps to instructor/parent from edge of pool union cues (with/without) submersion)
    2. Demonstrate breath holding response
    3. Kick and retrieve toy with submersion
    4. Complete submersion (stage 3)


    The teachers took underwater pictures of all the babies in the class during the Swimming Award Week.  Here are Map pictures under the water.


    Map opening eyes underwater
    Map breathing underwater

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