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American Red Cross Parent and Child Aquatics

Developed for children 6 months to 5 years of age, American Red Cross Parent and Child Aquatics builds swimming readiness by emphasizing fun in the water. Parents and children participate in several guided practice sessions that help children learn elementary skills, including water entry, bubble blowing, front kicking, back floating, underwater exploration and more. 

American Red Cross Learn-to-Swim
Our Learn-to-Swim offers something for everybody. A unique six-level instructional approach is unlike anything offered by other aquatic training programs. Plus our instructors are trained and certified by the American Red Cross, so swimmers of all ages and abilities are in good hands.

The prerequisite for each level is the successful demonstration of the skills from the preceding level, except for Level 1, which has no prerequisite. Each level of Learn-to-Swim includes training in basic water safety and helping others in an emergency, in addition to the skills outlined below:

Level 1: Introduction to Water Skills
Purpose: Helps students feel comfortable in the water.
Level 1 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
	Change direction while walking or paddling
	Roll over from front to back and back to front with support
	Explore floating on front and back with support
	Explore swimming on front and back using arm and leg actions with support
	Use a life jacket

Level 2: Fundamental Aquatic Skills
Purpose: Gives students success with fundamental skills.
Level 2 participants learn to:

	Enter water by stepping or jumping from the side
	Exit water safely using ladder or side
	Submerge entire head
	Blow bubbles submerging head in a rhythmic pattern (bobbing)
	Open eyes underwater, pick up a submerged object in shallow water
	Float on front and back
	Perform front and back glide
	Change direction of travel paddling on front or back
	Roll over from front to back, back to front
	Tread water using arm and leg motions (chest-deep water)
	Swim on front, back, and side using combined arm and leg actions
	Move in the water while wearing a life jacket

Learn-to-Swim Level 2 participants receive a Raffy Learns to Swim full-color booklet that reinforces learning and provides parents with additional information about their child’s progress.

Level 3: Stroke Development
Purpose: Builds on the skills in Level 2 through additional guided practice.
Level 3 participants learn to:

	Jump into deep water from the side
	Dive from kneeling or standing position
	Submerge and retrieve an object in chest deep water
	Bob with the head fully submerged
	Rotary breathing in horizontal position
	Perform front and back glide using two different kicks
	Float on front and back in deep water
	Change from horizontal to vertical position on front and back
	Tread water using hand and leg movements
	Perform front and back crawl
	Butterfly—kick and body motion
	Perform the HELP and Huddle position

Learn-to-Swim Level 3 participants receive a Waddles in the Deep full-color booklet that reinforces class instruction to help swimmers develop confidence in their strokes and improve other aquatic skills.

Level 4: Stroke Improvement
Purpose: Develops confidence in the skills learned and improves other aquatic skills.
Level 4 participants learn to:

	Perform a dive from a standing or stride position
	Swim underwater
	Perform feet-first surface dive
	Perform open turns on front and back
	Tread water using sculling arm motions and with different kicks

Perform the following:

	Front and back crawl
	Breaststroke
	Butterfly
	Elementary backstroke
	Swim on side using scissors-like kick
	Perform compact jump into water from a height while wearing a life jacket

Learn-to-Swim Level 4 participants receive a Waddles in the Deep full-color booklet that reinforces class instruction to help swimmers develop confidence in their strokes and improve other aquatic skills.

Level 5: Stroke Refinement
Purpose: Provides further coordination and refinement of strokes.
Level 5 participants learn to:

	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
	Tread water with two different kicks
	Learn survival swimming

Level 6: Swimming and Skill Proficiency
Purpose: Refines the strokes so students swim them with ease, efficiency, power and smoothness over greater distances.  Level 6 is designed with “menu” options that each focus on preparing students to participate in more advanced courses, including the Water Safety Instructor and Lifeguard Training courses.  These options include:

	Personal Water Safety
	Fundamentals of Diving
	Lifeguard Readiness
	Fitness Swimmer

American Red Cross Water Safety Presentations

Designed to help increase safety wherever and whenever water sports are enjoyed, American Red Cross Water Safety Presentations teach easy-to-remember safety tips for pools, spas, water parks, lakes, rivers, oceans and more. Four presentation options—including Water Safety Today, General Water Safety, Home Pool Safety, and Parent Orientation to Swim Lessons—vary in content and length and are ideal for parents, the general public, youth in grades 4-12 or youth organizations, and people who participate in activities in and around the water, such as camp staff and campers. 

Water Safety Today is a 2-hour presentation that teaches individuals how to recognize, prevent and respond to emergencies in, on and around the water, including pools, spas, water parks, lakes, rivers, oceans and more. Taught in a meeting room setting, this presentation is ideal for parents, the general public, youth in grades 4-12 or youth organizations, and people who participate in activities in and around the water, such as camp staff and campers.  Participants receive the American Red Cross Water Safety Handbook.

	General Water Safety is a 30-minute presentation that provides individuals with an awareness of the importance of water safety training and key information on being safe in, on and around the water.
	Home Pool Safety is a 30-minute presentation that provides information for home pool and apartment pool owners on how to keep families, tenants and guests safe in an aquatic environment.
	Parent Orientation to Swim Lessons is a 30-minute presentation that provides parents with an orientation to American Red Cross Learn-to-Swim courses.

American Red Cross Longfellow’s WHALE Tales

American Red Cross Longfellow's WHALE Tales provides easy-to-follow information to help children learn safe behavior in, on and around the water. Taught in a classroom session, WHALE Tales makes water safety fun and easy to learn. Each lesson is reinforced with color posters, worksheets, activities and a video that features Longfellow, the animated whale. Longfellow's WHALE Tales includes eight basic lessons.

	Swim with a buddy in a supervised area.
	Be cool, follow the rule - the reasons behind water safety rules.
	Look before you leap - choose safe places to swim and dive.
	Think so you don't sink - what to do when things go wrong.
	Reach or throw, don't go - safe ways to rescue a swimmer in trouble.
	Don’t just pack it, wear your jacket - the importance of wearing a life jacket.
	Cold can kill - knowing the hazards.
	Learn about boating before you go floating.