Parent & Child Aquatics session 1- 2026 - Summer 2026

Ages: 6 months -3 years (with Parent in water)

This class introduces infants and toddlers to the water through fun, guided activities that build comfort and safety.

Children will learn to:

• Feel comfortable in the water.
• Enter and exit the water safely.
• Explore breath control and submersion
• Explore floating on the front and back.
• Change body position in the water.
• Play safely in the water.
• Experience wearing a life jacket.

Parents, you also learn:

• How to properly supervise children and maintain safe behavior in, on and around the water.
• How to hold and support your child in the water.
• How to select and fit a U.S. Coast Guard-approved life jacket
• Valuable water safety information to make your family safer in, on and around the water.

Preschool Aquatics (Pre-K) -session 1 2026 - Summer 2026

Preschool - Age: 3-5 years

In Preschool Aquatics students will build foundation in water skills that prepare children for independent swimming and water safety.

Skills taught include:

• Feel comfortable in the water.
• Enter and exit the water independently 
• Submerging mouth and blowing bubbles
• Front glide with support
• Back float with support
• Recovering to a vertical position with support
• Safe water play
• Experience wearing a life jacket.

Where to go after here - Preschool Aquatics - Advanced:

• Learn to float with assistance and recover to a vertical position.
• Combine arm and leg action on the front and back.
• Learn more self-help and basic rescue skills.

Level 1 - Basic Beginner - session 1, 2026 - Summer 2026

Ages: 5 years & up

Level 1: Basic Beginner: Designed for beginners to build comfort and basic water competency skills

Skills included:

• Independent water entry
• Traveling at least 5 yards and bobbing
• Submerging and opening eyes underwater.
• Front glide and assisted back float 
• Rolling from front to back
• Combined arm and leg action on front and back with assistance.
• Alternating and simultaneous arm and leg actions on front and back with assistance

Next Level:  Level 2 - Intermediate Skills

• More advance skills taught as we begin rotary breathing
• Swimming more independently on our front and back
• Introduction of swim strokes

Level 2 - Intermediate Skills - session 1, 2026 - Summer 2026

Ages: 6 years & up (must be comfortable submerging)

Level 2: Intermediate Skills - Students build on prior skills while increasing independence and endurance

Your child will be learning in a fun, engaging, and challenging activities that motivate students to want to perform and learn to swim. 

Milestones include:

• Entering chest-deep water
• Full submersion and breath holding.
• Floating or treading for 15 seconds
• Rolling between front and back positions
• Pushing off and swimming using combined arm and leg action on front for 5 body lengths, rolling to back float, floating for 5 seconds, rolling to the front and then continue swimming for 5 body lengths.

Next Level: Level 3 Advanced /Deep Water Introduction

Level 3 - Advanced -Intro to deep water session 1, 2026 - Summer 2026

Ages: 7 years & up Students must be ready for deep water 9+feet 

Level 3: Advanced: Students will build on previously learned skills. Your child will learn the front crawl and elementary backstroke at rudimentary levels.

Skills include:

• Front crawl and elementary backstroke
• Flutter, scissors, breaststroke and dolphin kicks.
• Treading water and floating for 1 minute
• swimming 25 yards continuously
• Headfirst entries in deep water

Exist Skills will include the following before advancement:

Jumping into deep water from the side, recovering to the surface, maintain position by treading or floating for 1 minutes, rotating a 360, then swimming the front crawl and/or elementary backstroke for 25 yards and then exit the water.

• Pushing off in a streamlined position, swimming the front crawl for 15 yards, changing position and direction, swimming the elementary backstroke for 15 yards and then exiting the water.

Next Level:  Level 4 -Stroke Improvement

• Increase endurance in swim strokes
• Learning open turns
• Introduction of standing dives

Level 4 -Stroke Improvement -session 1 2026 - Summer 2026

Ages 7 years & up Primarily deep-water instruction

Focus areas:

• Improved endurance and breath control
• Swimming longer distances
• Stroke refinement
• Open turns
• Headfirst entries
  

Stroke distance includes:

• Front crawl -25yards
• Elementary backstroke - 25 yards
• Breaststroke, butterfly, back crawl, sidestroke -15 yards

Next Level: Level 5- Stoke Refinement

Level 5 Stroke Refinement - session 1 2026 - Summer 2026

Ages 7 years & up- Advanced deep-water training

Focus area:

• Refining all six swim strokes
• Increased distance and technique
• Endurance training and drills

Milestones include:

• Shallow-angle dives
• Surface dives (tucks & pike)
• 50-yard front crawl, & elementary backstroke
• 25-yard butterfly, breaststroke, sidestroke, back crawl
• Front and back flip turns

Adult & Older Teens - LTS Session 1 2026 - Summer 2026

Ages: Adults & Teens 13 years & up

This class helps teens and adults gain confidence, safety skills, and foundational strokes.

Skills taught include:

• Chest-deep and deep-water entry
• Breath control and submersion
• Front and back glides
• Survival floating (30-seconds)

Adult & Teen Basic Program Goals:

• Overcome fear of the water
• Build safe, functional swim sills
• Introduction to new swim skills to get you moving in the water
• Achieving the American Red Cross -Water Competency Sequence

American Red Cross -Water Competency Sequence

 Jump into deep water, surface, tread or float for 1 minute, turn a 360°, swim 25 yards, and exit safely