So I told her teacher Ella really needs to have some fun during the lesson in order to hold her attention. It cant all be drills. Take her for a spin on the ice or let her practice actual skating instead of just drills. She is 3! Hello??? Her response was if she is bored why isn't she telling me that? I am like... Hello???? She is 3!!! She probably doesn't even realize she is bored. She just knows this is NOT fun and her first EVER ice skating class should be FUN! SO that she wants to do more and more of it. Anyhow here are the photos from week 4!
Week 5 was much better. I promised Ella whether the teacher wanted to or not, we were gonna have some fun during this lesson. And we did! I took her all around the ice, showed her how to spin around, took her for rides. Every 5-10 minutes when she started getting bored I gave her some fun time on the ice. It worked like magic. She was focused and ready to play some more. She was for the first time willing to skate without me as long as I was making a game out of it. I had her race me and let her win every time. I also told the teacher she was ready to move on to new things. This throwing things across the ice and picking them up and putting them in buckets was getting old and she was too good at it to keep wasting time. So we got to try some new skills. I would be lying if I didn't say that it does annoy me that this women doesn't seem to know how to teach 3 yr olds or keep them engaged or make a class fun for them. I want Ella to enjoy Ice Skating and want to keep going but am worried this woman is going to mess it up. Ahh well. We will see what happens. Here is the photos from week 5. Not too many! PS I also told her she could wear a tutu over her sweat pants today so that she could look like one of the older skater girls but still have protection on her legs if she falls. She got lots of compliments. :)
Only three more weeks of classes left. Then we will see if she wants to continue skating or try something new.
