Climbing, music and jumping

As I often say, one of the huge advantages of homeschooling (at least for us) is that it's so much more efficient than school-schooling.  We get to spend more of our days doing what we want to do.

Rock Climbing:

On Friday, Miya completed a "green" climb for the first time at Northern Rocks.  (She's the first in our family, too!  I almost got it, but not quite -- maybe next week?!)

What's a "green"?  Here's the grading system:

The way I feel it (as a near-beginner to all this, having only started a month ago), purple is do-able for someone who has done some strength training (weights, gymnastics, etc), but hasn't specifically rock climbed before.

Green, to me at least, needs a bit of rock climbing experience.  Green holds are a bit smaller and need some finger strength that people wouldn't normally have without some climbing.  And green also seems to need a bit more experience with technique -- balance, strategy, etc.

So, good on Miya for getting to that next level.  Miya is really enjoying the climbing, and the two of us do an hour or so three times a week.

Music:

Yesterday morning, Miya had her Class Recitals at Belmont Music Centre.

Several classes performed in front of an audience of about 70 or so family and friends.  All students did extremely well, especially considering that this year's learning has been hugely Covid-interrupted.

Miya is learning three instruments this year, and good on her for consistently practicing most days.  She's made huge improvements and is sounding really good.

Miya was up on stage twice yesterday for both trumpet and clarinet (keyboard was a couple of weeks ago).

Athletics:

Yesterday afternoon, Mulan and I competed in athletics again.

This week, both of us did triple jump.  Our results are here.

Neither of us got PBs (personal bests) this week, but Mulan did get a best non-wind-assisted jump of 9.32m.  (Her PB of 9.53m was wind-assisted.)

This season, Mulan is often doing athletics two or three days a week, with competitions and training.

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And then both girls do ballet a few days a week, gymnastics once a week and swimming once a week.  Mulan is continuing with cello and recorder lessons each week, and Miya also does athletics.  And that's just the structured activities.

If the girls went to school, they probably wouldn't have time to do half of this.