Benefits of the Program
- Water exploration boosts confidence, self-esteem and independence
- Promotes Parent-Child bonding
- Establish positive parenting methods that can be used outside the pool
- Encourage social interaction and peer learning
- Increase in strength, muscle tone, endurance and lung capacity
- Improves coordination, motor development, and balance
- Results in healthier naps after swim class
- Acquire essential safety skills using a learning-thru-play format
- Accelerates the child’s psychomotor, cognitive & affective development (physical, mental & emotional development)
- Enhances tactile stimulation
Skills Your Baby Will Learn
- Safe entries and exits – safe attitudes and behaviors in and around the water
- Self-exploration – opportunity to experiment different ways to move through the water
- Breath control and submersion – learning to hold breath when submerged in the water
- Discover Buoyancy – develop balance, stability, relaxation, and confidence through exciting games and activities
- Specific water safety skills – potentially life-saving movements and maneuvers in the water
Swim Goals
Level 1 (6-12 months old)
- Assisted sitting pool entry
- Participates in the lesson
- Prepared for pouring water on head
- Assisted back float – cheek-to-cheek
- Assisted Monkey walk on wall
- Ready for cheek roll – breath holding cue
- Assisted sitting jump – eyes in
- Assisted Run-run jump
- Assisted underwater turn to parent
- Ready for 3-5 second swim – eyes in
- Intro safety exit
- Sensory movements and developing eye hand coordination
Level 2 (13-24 months old)
- Attempts bubbling
- Attempts Kicking
- Assisted back float – nape and forehead/ chin hold
- Hold the wall independently for 10 counts
- Ready for 3-5 second swim with assisted pop-up breath
- Sitting jump independently – eyes in
- Run – run jump independently
- Assisted sitting jump and turn 180 degrees to wall
- Horizontal balance in front float
- Assisted safety exit
- Attempts to turn underwater vertically
- Introduction to roll- over from front to back float
Level 3 (25-35 months old)
- Bubbling on their own
- Kicking on their own
- Starfish float
- Independent Monkey walk on wall`
- Developing Rolling Skills
- Standing jump and swim to parent / teacher
- Standing jump – turn – and swim back to the wall
- Assisted retrieval of toys underwater
- Attempts pop-up breath independently
- Climbs out independently
- Turns underwater vertically to wall / parent
- Swims 5-7 seconds with assisted roll-over