learn to swim Swim Lesson Tips & Tricks Help your child start out swim lessons on the right foot! • Evaluate your child’s swim ability and choose a class level, date and time. • Register for class online or at the Front Desk. Classes fill quickly. • Arrive early to check-in and familiarize your child with the facility. Please have your child ready for class at the start of the lesson time. • Families with an adult (18+) may use a cabana locker room. Please bring your own padlock if you wish to store your belongings in a locker. Group locker rooms are also available and located near the Competition Pool.
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classes for infants, toddlers & children Parent & Child Swim Lessons
• At the end of the set of lessons, your Instructor will recommend the appropriate class level for the next set of lessons. Class levels are frequently repeated to allow students to master skills and feel successful before moving on to a new level.
class a fun experience for both of you.
Parents and children improve and expand the swimming and safety
preschool Swim Lessons
Children may be new to the water or have prior experience. Swimmers
Ages 4-5 years
rolling from front to back.
Parent & Child Level 2 skills learned in level one.
Preschool Level 1 will explore being in the water through games and learn skills such as blowing bubbles, face in the water, floating, front and back glides and
Preschool Level 2 Students in these classes will learn how to bob towards safety, front float, tread water, and swim with arm and leg action on front and on back.
• Bring your child’s towel onto the pool deck. Keep your child warm before and after lessons.
• Please do not bring your child to swim lessons if they are ill. Please note: Make-up lessons are not available.
water. Water exploration, games, and new water skills will make this
Ages 6 months– 3 years
• Have your child go to the bathroom before lessons. Children who are not potty trained must wear a swim diaper and plastic pants (available for purchase at the Front Desk) to prevent bathroom incidents in the pool.
• Check in at the Swim Lesson table in the Cove Pool. Please help your child remember the Instructor’s name and the class flag color. Pass this information on to anyone who may be bringing your child to lessons.
Parent & Child Level 1 Parents are taught how to safely hold and work with their child in the
Preschool Level 3 Swimmers will improve their freestyle form while increasing their stamina by swimming longer distances. Safety bobs, survival floats, and swimming on back will be practiced.
learn to Swim Lessons Ages 6+ years
Level 1: Intro to aquatics Students in this class may be new swimmers or comfortable in the water. Students will learn to blow bubbles, put their face in the water, back float, front glide, roll from front to back and back to front, and swim freestyle with good form for short distances.
Level 2: Aquatic Fundamentals These students will learn safety floats, jumping into the water, back glides, back stroke, elementary backstroke, and will continue to improve their form for freestyle.
Level 3: Stroke Development Students have mastered the basics of freestyle and backstroke, and are ready to learn rotary breathing. Swimmers will improve their elementary backstroke form, learn dolphin kick, and will be introduced to the deep water in the competition pool for treading water and beginning diving.
Level 4: Stroke Improvement While improving their rotary breathing, backstroke, and elementary backstroke students will learn butterfly, breaststroke, and will swim longer distances. Students will learn open turns for freestyle and backstroke and learn to dive from the side of the pool.
Level 5: Stroke Refinement Students can swim full lengths of the Comp Pool and will increase their stamina and speed in all strokes through swimming drills. They are ready to learn flip turns and competitive starts from the starting blocks. 24 winter/spring 2013