Swimming Lessons Class Description
Parent/Child(ages 6 months-3 years)-This class includes basic skills that prepares young children to be comfortable in the water. This class will not make your child an independent swimmer; instead this class will prepare your child to enter the Learn-to-Swim Program. Skills learned include getting adjusted to the water environment, showing comfort on their front and back positions with assistance, submerging with asistance and changing body positions in the water.
Aqua Tots (ages 3 years)-This class is designed for preschool aged children who have never been in a swim class but are ready to hold on to the wall and be in a pool without a parent. The focus is on the fundamentals of floating and aquatic locomotion skills. In order to move to the next level, students must be comfortable putting their face in the water for three or more seconds.
Preschool (age 4 years)-Preschool aquatics teaches age appropriate water and safety skills in a positive, logical progression beginning with fundamental water safety and aquatic skills. Skills learned are the same as are taught at levels 1 and 2. These skills include independent water entry, front and back glides and combined arm and leg actions. Children are required to stay in the preschool program until they turn five years of age.
Level 1 (ages 5-6 years)-Working on comfort in the water and entering and exiting the pool by themselves. Skills learned include blowing bubbles, getting the face and head in the water, floating on front and back with support, and recovering to a standing position; alternating and simultaneous arm and leg motion on front and back.
Level 2 (ages 5-7 years)-Skills learned include front and back floats, unsupported for 5 seconds, then recover to a standing position; front and back glides for two body lenghts and combined arm and leg actions on the front and back for 15 feet.
Level 3-Skills learned include survival and back floats and treading water for 30 seconds, front and back glides with two different kicks and combined arm and leg actions on front and back for 15 feet.
Level 4-Improve skills and increase endurance on strokes learned in previous levels, including front and back crawl for 25 yards, elementary backstrokes, breastroke, sidestroke with scissor kick and butterfly stroke for 15 yards. Skills learned include head first entries, survival swimming and treading water using two kicks.
Level 5-Increased endurance, coordination and refinement of strokes, front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, breastroke, elementary backstroke, sidestroke and flip turns.
Level 6-Refine strokes so student swims with more ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over greater distances. Skills include introduction to other aquatic activities; areas of focus include personal water safety, fitness, swimming and diving.
NOTE TO PARENTS/GUARDIANS:
we want your child to participate in our learn-to-swim program. We do ask student cooperatin and attention and to be on time and attend every lesson. Each lesson contains new material which is vital to success in the class. We also ask parents/guardians to have patience, be positive and give praise. It is important to give children additional time to practice outside of class. The more practice time children receive the more successful they will be in swimming lessons.
