If your child is between 6 months and 5 years old, this program can help develop swimming readiness by teaching children to have fun in the water. Through guided practice sessions, children learn skills such as water entry, bubble blowing, front kicking, back floating, underwater exploration, and more. I is to help students feel comfortable in the water and to enjoy the water safely. At this level, students start developing good attitudes and safe practices around the water. The objective of Level II is to give students success with fundamental skills.
Students learn to float without support and to recover to a vertical position.
The objective of Level III is to build on the skills in Level II by providing additional guided practice. Students learn to coordinate the front crawl and back crawl, elementary backstroke, and the fundamentals of treading water. Students also learn rules for safe diving and begin to learn to dive from the side of the pool. As in all levels, additional safety skills will be learned. The objective of Level IV is to develop confidence in the strokes learned thus far and to improve other aquatic skills.