Parent and Child Aquatics:
Purpose: To familiarize young children (from ages 6 months to about 3 years) to the water and prepare them to learn to swim in the American Red Cross Preschool Aquatics or Learn-to-Swim courses. It is not designed to teach children to become good swimmers or to survive in the water on their own.
Prerequisites: No skill prerequisites; child must be at least 6 months old to enroll; parent or other caregiver must accompany each child into the water and participate in each class
Objectives:
- Learn how to enter and exit the water in a safe manner.
- Feel comfortable in the water.
- Explore submerging.
- Explore buoyancy on the front and back position.
- Glide on the front and back.
- Change body position in the water.
- Learn basic water safety rules and how to avoid water hazards around the home.
- Learn how to call for help and the importance of knowing first aid and CPR.
- Learn about the importance of wearing a life jacket and experience wearing one.
- Learn how to stay safe in, on and around the water, including knowing how to stay safe in the sun and how to avoid recreational water illnesses.
Level 1
Introduction to Water Skills
Purpose: To begin developing positive attitudes, good swimming habits and safe practices in and around the water.
Prerequisites: None
Objectives:
- Enter and exit water using ladder, steps or side
- Blow bubbles through mouth and nose
- Bobbing
- Open eyes under water and retrieve submerged objects
- Front and back glides and floats
- Recover to vertical position
- Roll from front to back and back to front
- Tread water using arm and hand actions
- Alternating and simultaneous leg actions on front and back
- Alternating and simultaneous arm actions on front and back
- Combined arm and leg actions on front and back
- Learn how to stay safe, including recognizing an emergency and knowing how to call for help
- Learn how to stay safe in, on and around the water, including the use of a life jacket, recognizing lifeguards and sun safety
Level 2
Fundamental Aquatic Skills
Purpose: To give participants success with fundamental skills, including learning how to float without support and to recover to a vertical position
Prerequisites:
- Demonstrate competency in all required skills and activities, including in-water skills Successfully complete the following exit skills assessment:
Step from side into chest-deep water, move into a front float for 5 seconds, roll to back, float for 5 seconds then return to a vertical position.
- Move into a back float for 5 seconds, roll to front then recover to a vertical position.
- Push off and swim using combined arm and leg actions on front for 5 body lengths, roll to back, float for 15 seconds, roll to the front then continue swimming for 5 body lengths. (You can assist the participant when taking a breath.)
Objectives:
- Enter and exit water by stepping or jumping from the side
- Fully submerge and hold breath
- Bobbing
- Open eyes under water and retrieve submerged objects
- Front, jellyfish and tuck floats
- Front and back glides and floats
- Roll from front to back and back to front
- Change direction of travel while swimming on front or back
- Tread water using arm and leg actions
- Combined arm and leg actions on front and back
- Learn how to stay safe, including recognizing an emergency, knowing how to call for help and perform simple non-swimming assists
- Learn how to stay safe in, on and around the water, including the use of a life jacket, recognizing lifeguards and sun safety
- Learn what to think about and do when exhausted or caught in a dangerous situation
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