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Description
Preschool Stage 3 - Students learn personal water safety and achieve basic swimming competency by learning two benchmark skills: Swim, float, swim - sequencing front glide,roll, back float, roll, front glide, and exit; and Jump, push, turn, grab.In stage 3, Water Stamina, preschool swimmers will learn how to swim to safety from a longer distance than in previous stages in the event of falling into a body of water. This stage also introduces rhythmic breathing and integrated arm and leg action.
Preschool Stage 4 - Having mastered the fundamentals, students learn additional water safety skills and build stroke technique, developing skills that prevent chronic disease, increase social-emotionaland cognitive well-being, and foster a lifetime of physical activity.
Preschool swimmers in stage 4 will develop stroke technique in front crawl and back crawl and learn the breaststroke kick and butterfly kick. Water safety is reinforced through treading water and elementary backstroke.
Please bring swim suit and towel for your child. If your child is not potty trained, please make sure they wear a swim diaper.
Age Category
Early Childhood
Location
Boll Y - Pool - Family at Boll Family YMCA
Prerequisites
Adult - Boll
orÆAdult Association Annual - Boll
orÆYoung Adult Association - Boll
orAssociation Corporate Adult
orCorp Company Paid Adult - Boll
orMOT Adult - Boll
orMOT Adult Annual - Boll
orÆMOT Young Adult - Boll
orMOT Young Adult Annual - Boll
orYoung Adult / Student - Boll
orAdult +1 - Boll
orAssociation Corporate Adult +1
orCorp. Company Paid Adult +1 - Boll
orCorporate Adult +1 - Boll
orMOT Adult +1 - Boll
orMOT Adult +1 Annual - Boll
orÆCorporate Association Family +1 - Boll
orÆFamily +1 Association - Boll
orÆFamily Association - Boll
orAssociation Corporate Family - Boll
orCorp. Company Paid Family - Boll
orCorporate Family - Boll
orFamily - Boll
orMOT Family - Boll
orMOT Family Annual - Boll
orY For All - Boll
orStaff Full Time - Boll
orStaff Part Time - Boll
or$0.00 Program Membership
Instructor
Keith Simpson
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