This program offers children their first experience in the pool with instructional assistance. Students will learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competency by learning two benchmark skills: swim, float, swim and jump, push turn grab. The preschool program includes children ranging from ages 3 to 5 years old. The school age program includes children ranging from 6 to 12 years old. These classes are 30 minutes in length and meet once a week for 7 weeks. Pre-registration is required.
This Parent-Child class introduces infants and toddlers to the aquatic environment through games, songs, and independent work. Milestones include encouraging parents to set appropriate expectations for their children, introducing and emphasizing basic water safety, building relationships between parents and children, and providing a positive family aquatic experience. On-going water experiences build self-confidence, water enjoyment, and aquatic education.
*No classes currently scheduled
The Parent-Child classes helps promote water enrichment and aquatic readiness activities for children and their parent or other trusted adult. This class focuses on exploring body positions, blowing bubbles, and fundamental safety and aquatic skills. Milestones include encouraging children to move purposefully through water in response to verbal and visual cues, and using toys and flotation devices, emphasizing basic aquatic safety to parents, and building relationships between parents and children by providing opportunities for fun and interaction in the water.
In this first stage, water comfort increases with underwater exploration and basic self-rescue skills are introduced and performed with assistance. Milestones include exploring the aquatic environment and personal skills with instructor help, developing basic skills to propel and glide through the water with instructor help, and learning basic aquatic safety.
The second stage encourages forward movement in water and basic self-rescue skills performed independently. Prerequisites include being comfortable in the water and able to fully submerge, with the face underwater. Milestones include exploring the aquatic environment and personal skills without instructor help, developing basic skills to propel and glide through the water without instructor help, learning basic aquatic safety, and accepting some of the responsibility for safe practices. By the end of this level, children should be able to swim unassisted for short distances.
The third stage develops intermediate self-rescue skills performed at longer distances than the previous stages. Prerequisites include being able to swim and float completely unassisted as well as able to swim short distances without assistance. Milestones include integrating arm action, leg action, and rhythmic breathing in back and front glides, developing forward movement on the front and back, and practicing skills and safety techniques in deep water.
In this first stage, water comfort increases with underwater exploration and basic self-rescue skills are introduced and performed with assistance. Milestones include exploring the aquatic environment and personal skills with instructor help, developing basic skills to propel and glide through the water with instructor help, and learning basic aquatic safety.
The second stage encourages forward movement in water and basic self-rescue skills performed independently. Prerequisites include being comfortable in the water and able to fully submerge, with the face underwater. Milestones include exploring the aquatic environment and personal skills without instructor help, developing basic skills to propel and glide through the water without instructor help, learning basic aquatic safety, and accepting some of the responsibility for safe practices. By the end of this level, children should be able to swim unassisted for short distances.
The third stage develops intermediate self-rescue skills performed at longer distances than the previous stages. Prerequisites include being able to swim and float completely unassisted as well as able to swim short distances without assistance. Milestones include integrating arm action, leg action, and rhythmic breathing in back and front glides, developing forward movement on the front and back, and practicing skills and safety techniques in deep water.
Having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills and build stroke technique, developing skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social-emotional and cognitive well-being, and foster a lifetime of physical activity. Each skill level builds the preceding level, with each level covering the strokes, diving fundamentals, and safety skills. These classes are 30 minutes in length and meet once a week for 7 weeks. Pre-registration is required.
The fourth stage introduces basic stroke technique in front crawl and back crawl and reinforces water safety through treading water and elementary backstroke. Prerequisites include being able to swim 15 meters on the front and back without assistance. Milestones include developing the front crawl and back crawl, introducing components of the breaststroke and butterfly, and practicing safety techniques in deep water.
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The fourth stage introduces basic stroke technique in front crawl and back crawl and reinforces water safety through treading water and elementary backstroke. Prerequisites include being able to swim 15 meters on the front and back without assistance. Milestones include developing the front crawl and back crawl, introducing components of the breaststroke and butterfly, and practicing safety techniques in deep water.
The fifth stage introduces breaststroke and butterfly and reinforces water safety through treading water and sidestroke. Prerequisites include able to swim front crawl with rotary breathing and back crawl proficiently and knowledge of the fundamentals for breaststroke and butterfly. Milestones include developing stamina in the front crawl and back crawl, developing the breaststroke and butterfly and building endurance techniques for deep-water safety.
The sixth stage refines stroke technique on all major competitive strokes and encourages swimming as part of a healthy lifestyle.
Pool Schedule
Water Finess Schedule
The YMCA will be using Picktime on Monday and Wednesday from 8:00AM – 12:00PM, Friday from 9:00AM – 12:00PM and on Tuesday and Thursday from 8:00AM-10:15AM for lap lane sign-ups. Other times will be open lap lanes and will not require sign-ups on Picktime. See pool schedule for specific days, times and number of lanes available.
includes CPR, 1st aid, and Lifeguard certification. 15 and up. Must swim 12 lengths of the pool, tread water, and timed deep water object retrieval. For more information contact 717-376-1387.
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