Aqua Tots

(Ages 6 months to 5 years with parent or guardian)

Enjoy swimming with your child while building swimming readiness by emphasizing fun in the water for children ages 6 to 36 months old accompanied by a parent or guardian. Parents learn to help their child adjust to the water and develop safety awareness. Participants become comfortable in the water learning basic swimming skills with assistance from a parent or guardian. Safety topics include basic water safety, healthy swimming, safe water entry, helping yourself and others in an emergency, use of lifejackets, safe weather conditions for swimming, and waterpark safety. *Each child must be accompanied by a parent/guardian in the water during class.

Skills (may be performed with flotation or assistance):

• Enter the water
• Submerge head
• Bob underwater and blow bubbles, 3 times
• Front float, face in or out of water, 3 sec.
• Front glide, face in or out of water
• Back float, ears in or out of water, 3 sec.
• Back glide, ears in or out of water
• Roll over: front to back/back to front
• Paddle stroke on front, face in or out of water, 5 yd.
• Finning stroke on back (back crawl arms or Monkey, Tree, Soldier arms), ears in water, 5 yd.