AMERICAN RED CROSS SWIM LESSONS
American Red Cross Swim Lessons
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Parent and Child Aquatics Level 1
In Parent and Child Aquatics Level 1, great experiences
and fun activities are provided to teach infants and
young children to:
• Feel comfortable in the water.
• Enter and exit the water safely.
• Explore breath control and submerging.
• Explore floating on the front and back.
• Change body position in the water.
• Play safely in the water.
• Experience wearing a life jacket.
Parents, you also learn:
• How to properly supervise children and maintain safe
behavior in, on, and around the water.
• How to hold and support your child in the water.
• How to select and fit a U.S. Coast Guard-approved
life jacket for your child.
• Valuable water safety information to make your family
safer in, on, and around the water
Parent and Child Aquatics Level 2
In the Parent and Child Aquatics Level 2 course, great
experiences and fun activities will be provided to allow
your child to:
• Learn more ways to enter and exit the water safely.
• Retrieve objects below the surface and submerged
objects with eyes opened.
• Glide on the front and back with assistance.
• Perform combined arm and leg actions on front and back
with assistance.
• Change body position in the water.
• Experience wearing a life jacket in the water.
Preschool Aquatics Level 1
In Preschool Aquatics Level 1, your child is introduced to basic skills. These skills lay the foundation for developing water competency and the future skill development of swimming strokes. In addition, your child starts to develop positive attitudes and safe practices around the water.
Certain milestones are necessary for successful completion of Preschool Aquatics Level 1, including:
• Entering the water independently using ramp, steps, or side and travel at least 5 yards.
• Submerging mouth and blowing bubbles for at least 3
seconds.
• Exiting the water safely.
• Gliding on front for at least 2 body lengths with support.
• Rolling to back and floating for 3 seconds with support.
• Recovering to a vertical position with support
Preschool Aquatics Level 2
Pre-school Aquatics Level 2 marks the beginning of independent aquatic locomotion skills. Children continue to explore using simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back to gain greater proficiency in preparation for performing strokes.
Some of the milestones achieved in Preschool Aquatics Level 2 include:
• Gliding on front at least 2 body lengths.
• Rolling to back, floating on back for 15 seconds, then
recovering to a vertical position.
• Gliding on back for at least 2 body lengths.
• Rolling to front, then recovering to a vertical position.
• Swimming using combined arm and leg actions on front
for 3 body lengths.
• Rolling to back, floating for 15 seconds, rolling to front
then continuing to swim on front for 3 body lengths.
Preschool Aquatics Level 3
Preschool Aquatics puts the fun in fundamentals. Each
class is loaded with enjoyable, engaging, and challenging activities that motivate children to want to perform and learn to swim.
Some of the milestones in Level 3 include:
• Stepping from the side into chest-deep water.
• Pushing off the bottom and moving into a treading or
floating position for 15 seconds, swimming on front and/
or back for 5 body lengths and then exiting the water.
• Moving into a back float for 15 seconds, rolling to front then recovering to a vertical position.
• Pushing off and swimming using combined arm and leg
actions on front for 5 body lengths.
• Rolling to back, floating for 15 seconds, rolling to front then continuing to swim for 5 body lengths.
All Preschool Level 3 skills are performed independently.
Learn to Swim Level 1
In Level 1—Introduction to Water Skills, your child is introduced to basic skills as the foundation for future skills and
the development of water competency (the basic minimum skills needed for water safety). Certain milestones are necessary for successful completion of Level 1, including:
• Entering the water independently using the ramp, steps, or side.
• Traveling at least 5 yards, bobbing 5 times, and then safely exit the water.
Level 2 (ages 5+)
(Prerequisite: Completion of level 1)
Give students success with fundamental skills. Float without support, recover to vertical position, flutter kick on front and back, finning on back, back crawl, combined front stroke 5 meters, and personal safety.
Level 3 (ages 5+)
(Prerequisite: Completion of level 2)
To further build on level 2 skills. Coordinated front crawl 10 yards, elementary backstroke, coordinated back crawl 10 yards, change directions, tread water, and personal safety.
Level 4 (ages 6+)
(Prerequisite: Completion of level 3)
To build confidence in previous learned strokes and increase endurance. Introduce breaststroke and sidestroke, turning on wall, front crawl with rotary breathing, 25 meter front dive.
Level 5 (ages 6+)
(Prerequisite: Completion of level 4)
Coordination and refinement of strokes. Introduce butterfly, open turns, feet first surface dive, freestyle 50 meters, backstroke 50 meters, elementary backstroke 25 meters, sidestroke and breaststroke 10 meters each under water.
Level 6 (ages 6+)
(Prerequisite: Completion of level 5)
Enhance strokes so students can swim with ease, efficiency over a greater distance. Diving, turns for breaststroke, sidestroke, flip turns for front crawl, longer distances for previous learned strokes.
Adult Beginner (ages 16+)
Designed for teens and adults who wish to improve their knowledge and skill for many reasons. It may be to overcome their fear of the water and to learn the basic skills and achieve a minimum level of water competency to improve their skill and technique either to increase their level of safety to improve their health and fitness or to perhaps compete in triathlons or to join a master’s team.
Private Swim Lessons
Currently, Private Swim Lessons are on Hold.
If you're interested in Private Swim Lessons please fill out our request form.
Group Swim Lessons
$35
Includes 8 Lessons.
Private Lessons
$45
Includes 5 Lessons.
Semi-Private ( 2 Students)
$80
Includes 5 Lessons.
Semi-Private ( 3 Students)
$120
Includes 5 Lessons.