Skating Update (Logan)

 Logan's skating ended a while ago, at the end of March, I think? But as we've already established, I haven't been very good at keeping the blog updated so I thought I'd post about how it ended up.

How he spent a lot of the 10 week session.

 He can skate now, but he certainly doesn't love it and because of that he never got super confident. He can get up when he falls and get around, but that's it.

Cautiously getting up.

 I'm still not convinced that he had the best instruction overall. His teacher was good but there were a few kids who monopolized a lot of her time because they never got up and cried a lot. But they encouraged the kids to crawl on the ice a lot to get around. I was ok with that the first couple of weeks but they were still doing it close to the end. Sure they could get around a lot faster that way (and without any tears) but it didn't really teach them anything.

In the crawling position.

Receiving some encouragement from his teacher.

Mr. Serious. He rarely smiled.

 I think another problem for Logan was that there wasn't a lot of direction when they were on the ice. They would be given an instruction (ex. skate to the blue line) and then they'd have to stand around and wait once they got there while the stragglers were dealt with. Whenever he was engaged and they were playing a game or singing or something, he loved it!

Much happier now.

Someone must be saying something interesting.

Ah! A smile!

 Yes, Logan can now skate. Does he love it? I'm not sure. He certainly hasn't asked to go back since it ended. We'll see what he wants to do next winter. Although now that he's been introduced to the skill, we can probably just take him out on our own next winter.

He did like admiring his collection of stickers that he received on his nametag though!