Preschool Swim Lessons

If your child is not toilet trained, have them wear plastic pants. When your child is dressed in their bathing suit, your child must take a shower. Then bring your child to the pool deck, no more than 5 minutes before class. Check in with the Lesson Coordinator once on deck. Put a float belt on your child. An instructor would be glad to help them with this. At this time, please have a seat on the bleachers.  Class is underway and all students have been placed in the proper groups, the Lesson Coordinator will answer any questions you may have. Parents are required to remain in the building during their child’s swim class. An adult must pick up their child in this age group; we will not send them to the locker room alone. If your child is afraid the first day, wait with them until their name is called. Tell them you will watch from the bleachers, hand them to an instructor and then leave, a clean break seems to work best.  Most children will calm down after 10 or 15 minutes. Others will continue for 2-3 lessons. Please continue to bring your child to class. They will soon adjust and find swimming fun. These skills must be achieved before moving on to the next level. This is accomplished through student evaluation by the instructor.

Preschool Swim Lesson Levels

PIKE This is the beginning swimming level for preschoolers. These are children who have either never had swimming lessons before or are not comfortable in the water. They are building confidence and endurance. GOALS: general pool safety, climb in and out of pool on their own without assistance, swim half the pool length on front and back without assistance, comfort in the water. EEL This is the intermediate swimming level for preschoolers. These. Children have had lessons before and/or are comfortable in the water. They also have built up enough endurance to swim one or more lengths of pool. GOALS: general pool safety, swim on front one length with good paddle and flutter kick, swim on back one length, level with good flutter kick, begin rhythmic breathing, swim one length level with face in the water, good rotary breathing with kick board. RAY This is the advanced swimming level. These children have confidence and endurance to swim at least four lengths of the pool without stopping They have the motor skills to put crawl stroke together.  GOALS: General pool safety, swimming one full length with rotary breathing, good kick and over arm recovery, one full length elementary backstroke, kick board with good flutter kick, swim without floats. STARFISH These swimmers are at the highest level in the preschool program.  They can swim 25 yards of front crawl.  GOALS: General pool safety, diving, and backstroke.