Monday, 12 August 2013

Ice Skating, and Park Days


(August 2013) – Tuesday 6th


Gosh we have had such a busy day today, but it was lots of fun.

Ice Skating


This morning Jasmin had her ice skating lesson with Paul, who isn’t her usual coach but the lesson went very well. 

After asking me what she needed to concentrate on, he quickly got started with backwards skating, which isn’t Jasmin’s favourite thing to do on the ice.

Paul watched her and corrected her and she soon became a lot happier. She even managed some small one legged backwards skating.

After the lesson her coach said that her problem was she had been taught to do backwards skating doing lemons instead of lifting her feet. This had caused her to slow down and loose her balance.  I am hoping now that she will be able to go more quickly and not worry as much with this particular skill on the ice; especially as this is a feature in the next skating level for her.

Park Visit.


This afternoon we went to our friends Alison who has five children, and walked down to Forge Dam and through to Endcliffe Park.  The children had lots of fun, running off, climbing through the trees.  Talking all the way.

On the path to Endcliffe Park the children spotted some small ducklings, unfortunately we didn’t have any bread to feed them on the way there, but the café, gave us some bread for the return journey.  This was quickly snapped up by the ducklings.  We also saw a heron on the pond.

The park was very busy but we still had lots of fun. Jasmin found her confidence on the big slide.  You have to climb sideways on the top part of the ladder so that was good.  We also bumped into some other friends whom we hadn’t seen for a while, which was a nice surprise.

Walking back was hard as the children were very tired.  Luckily we had stepping stones and a small stream to occupy them for some of the way.

A quick play and a snack at Alison’s and it was tea time and time to leave.

A fab day.xxx





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