The following are descriptions of American Red Cross Learn To Swim classes.
Parent & Child
Parents and children (ages 6 months up to 3 years) learn together to increase a child's comfort level in the water and build a foundation of basic skills, such as arm and leg movements and breath control.
Level 1 Introduction to Water Skills
Purpose: Helps students feel comfortable in the water. Participants learn to:
- Enter and exit water safely
- Submerge mouth, nose and eyes
- Exhale underwater through mouth and nose
- Open eyes underwater, pick up submerged object
- Float on front and back Explore arm and hand movements
- Swim on front and back using arm and leg actions
- Follow basic water safety rules
- Use a life jacket
Level 2 Fundamental Aquatic Skills
Purpose: Gives students success with fundamental skills. Participants learn to:
- Enter water by stepping or jumping from the side
- Exit water safely using ladder or side
- Submerge entire head
- Open eyes underwater, pick up a submerged object
- Float on front and back
- Perform front and back glide
- Roll over from front to back, back to front
- Swim on side
- Swim on front and back using combined strokes
- Tread water using arm and leg motions
- Move in the water while wearing a life jacket
Level 3 Stroke Development
Purpose: Builds on the skills in Level 2 through additional guided practice. Participants learn to:
- Jump into deep water from the side
- Dive from kneeling or standing position
- Submerge and retrieve an object
- Bob with the head fully submerged
- Use rotary breathing in horizontal position
- Perform front and back glide
- Perform survival float
- Perform front and back crawl
- Butterfly kick and body motion
- Perform the HELP and Huddle position
- Perform a reaching assist Use
- Check-Call-Care in an emergency
- Change from horizontal to vertical position on front and back
Level 4 Stroke Improvement
Purpose: Develops confidence in the skills learned and improves other aquatic skills. Participants learn to:
- Perform shallow dive or dive from stride position
- Swim underwater
- Perform feet-first surface dive
- Perform open turns on front and back using any stroke
- Tread water using sculling arm motions and kick
- Perform the following:
- Front and back crawl
- Breaststroke
- Butterfly
- Elementary backstroke
- Swim on side using scissors-like kick
- Use safe diving rules
- Perform compact jump into water from a height while wearing a life jacket
- Perform a throwing assist & care for conscious choking victim
Level 5 Stroke Refinement
Purpose: Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes. Level 5 participants learn to:
- Tread water with two different kicks
- Learn survival swimming
- Perform rescue breathing
- Perform the following:
- Standing dive
- Shallow dive, glide two body lengths and begin any front stroke
- Tuck surface dive
- Pike surface dive
- Front flip turn
- Backstroke flip turn
- Front and back crawl
- Butterfly
- Breaststroke
- Elementary backstroke
- Sidestroke
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