Description: Develop basic swim skills and front and back strokes. Passing skills will be accomplished without instructor assistance.

Goals: safe entries/exits, blowing bubbles, submersion, front
and back floats, roll from front to back, introduction to deep
water, and basic swim strokes
Safety Topics: asking permission, adult supervision, never
swim alone, and getting an adult for help

Description: Continue to work on basic swim skills and strokes. Introduction to rotary breathing and elementary back stroke and diving. Some skills will be accomplished without instructor assistance.

Prerequisite Skills: comfortable in water, submerge full face, and float on front and back
Review: blowing bubbles, floating, basic swim strokes
Goals: in water recovery from floats and swimming, introduction to freestyle with rotary breathing, backstroke, elementary backstroke arms, and sitting/kneeling dives
Safety Topics: asking permission, adult supervision, never swim alone

Description: Work on stroke development and diving. Also continue to work on rotary breathing and introduction to flip turns and treading water.

Prerequisites: comfortable in the water, front and back floats, elementary backstroke arms, introduced to deep water
Review: freestyle with rotary breathing, backstroke, elementary backstroke arms, and diving
Goals: swimming without flotation devices, freestyle, backstroke, whip kick, elementary backstroke, flip turns,
treading water, and sitting/kneeling/standing dives
Safety Topic: asking permission, adult supervision, never swim alone, life jacket safety, boating, nutrition

Description: Continue to work on stroke development and endurance and introduction to butterfly stroke, breaststroke, and feet first surface dives.

Prerequisites: swim freestyle and backstroke for 15 yards, swim underwater, tread water and diving.
Review: freestyle, backstroke, whip kick, elementary backstroke, and flip turns.
Goals: swim 25 yards continuously, feet first surface dives, breaststroke, dolphin kick, butterfly arms, butterfly stroke as well as refine freestyle, backstroke, elementary backstroke, and kneeling/standing dives.
Safety Topic: asking permission, adult supervision, never swim
alone, and entry in unknown depths, and boating

Description: Review of all currently known swim strokes and dives. Continue to work on endurance and introduction to side stroke.

Prerequisites: swim 25 yards continuously, freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, jumping into deep water, and tread
water for 1 minute.
Review: all strokes and turns for each, diving.
Goals: endurance, swim continuously for 50 yards, butterfly, head first surface dives, tread water for 2 minutes, introduction to side stroke, and long, shallow standing dives.
Safety Topics: asking permission, adult supervision, buddy system/never swim alone, entry into unknown depths, boating.

Description: Stroke refinement for all strokes. Continue to work on swim endurance.

Prerequisites: swim all strokes continuously, retrieve object 10ft underwater, and tread water for 2 minutes
Review: freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, elementary backstroke, side stroke, proper turns for each stroke
and long, shallow standing dives.
Goals: swim 100 yards continuously, stroke refinement with streamline, endurance, diving from starting blocks (optional)
Safety Topics: asking permission, adult supervision, never swim alone, entry into unknown depths, boating, and nutrition