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Group Swim Lessons by A&B

A&B offers group swim lessons for children in our clients’ neighborhoods through a 7-level program focused on building essential swimming skills for safety and enjoyment. The program is designed to help swimmers progress from beginner to advanced levels, with the opportunity to develop competitive skills and enjoy swimming as a lifelong, healthy activity.

Registration:

Use the link below to register through the Parent Portal. Once logged in, you can select your home pool and sign up for your preferred session. Be sure to filter by location to find classes at your pool.

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Program Details:

Lesson Structure:

  • Time: Each session consists of four 25-minute classes held Monday through Thursday during one week.
  • Cost: $48 per session
  • Minimum Enrollment: 3 children per class

Skill Levels:

  • Levels 1 & 2: For children under 5, focusing on water safety and basic skills
  • Levels 3 & 4: For children over 5 with similar goals
  • Levels 5 and above: For swimmers who have completed Levels 1–4 and want to work on stroke technique and improvement

Session Dates:

  • Session 1: June 2 – June 5
  • Session 2: June 9 – June 12
  • Session 3: June 16 – June 19
  • Session 4: June 23 – June 26
  • Session 5: July 7 – July 10
  • Session 6: July 14 – July 17
  • Session 7: July 21 – July 24
  • Session 8: July 28 – July 31

Private & Semi-Private Lessons:

  • Available if you already know your instructor
  • Semi-private lessons must be for children within the same family

Youth Lesson Level 1 – New to the Pool

Pre-requisites

  • Age 3-5
  • New to no parent in pool
  • New to group setting
  • Comfortable with parent nearby
  • Not afraid of the water

Lesson Objectives

  • Water acclimation and basic water play
  • Assisted floats
  • Kicking
  • Face in water

Youth Lesson Level 2 – Comfortable in the Water

Pre-requisites

  • Age 3-5
  • Comfortable in group setting without parent
  • Follows rules
  • Ready to listen and learn to swim

Lesson Objectives

  • floating
  • kicking
  • Bobs
  • Rolling over
  • Freestyle and backstroke intro
  • Elementary backstroke
  • Safety information

Youth Lesson Level 3 – Water Acclimation

Pre-requisites

  • 5 years old
  • Ready to listen and learn in a group setting

Goals

  • Submerge
  • Assisted front and back floats
  • Confident in the water
  • Jump from side, assisted

Practice Skills

  • Change direction while walking
  • Get in water up to neck
  • Submerge ears
  • Blow bubbles with nose
  • Face in water
  • Standing elementary backstroke movements

Safety

  • Ask permission to get in
  • Enter/exit the pool with ladder, wall
  • Pool rules
  • Jumping safety

Deep Water Acclimation

  • Leave steps/wall with instructor
  • Scooter bug

Youth Lesson Level 4 – Preliminary Stroke Work

Pre-requisites

  • 5 years old
  • Ready to listen and learn in a group setting

Goals

  • 10+ bobs
  • float front and back
  • kick front and back
  • Confident in the water
  • Jump from side, unassisted

Practice Skills

  • Chin tuck
  • Pick up rings from bottom/step while submerged
  • Streamline position – front and back
  • Sculling – front and back
  • Elementary backstroke, assisted

Safety

  • Leave steps/wall with instructor
  • Roll front to back unassisted
  • Jump in, roll to back, assisted
  • Jump in return to wall, assisted

Deep Water Acclimation

  • Scooter bug toward deep water and back
  • Intro to treading water

Youth Lesson Level 5 – Freestyle and Backstroke 1 and 2

Pre-requisites

  • 5 years old
  • Ready to listen and learn in a group setting

Goals – 1

  • Freestyle with bilateral breathing
  • Backstroke, 15 yards
  • Surface dive to bottom, retrieve ring

Practice Skills – 1

  • Surface dives 
  • Swim, roll-over, breath, roll-over
  • Wall push-offs, front and back
  • Big arms

Goals – 2

  • Freestyle with bilateral breathing, 25 yards
  • Backstroke, up to 50 yards
  • Somersaults on land and water

Practice Skills – 2

  • Somersaults
  • Wall push-offs, front, back, side
  • Kickboard skills
  • Goggle use
  • Change direction while swimming
  • Underwater frog swim
  • Intro to circle swimming

Deep Water Acclimation

  • Jump in, touch bottom with feet
  • Treading water with flutter and elem. back kicks), 30 seconds (1), 60 seconds (2)
  • Treading water no legs (2)
  • Floating in deep water
  • Deep water bobs (2)
  • Jump in, return to wall
  • Dolphin dives (2)

Safety

  • Throwing/reaching assists
  • Removal of extra clothing in water
  • Jump in, roll to back, unassisted
  • Jump in, roll to back, float, unassisted (2)
  • Jump in, return to the wall, unassisted

Youth Lesson Level 6 – Breaststroke and Butterfly

Pre-requisites

  • Level 5

Goals

  • breaststroke 10-15 yards
  • butterfly 10 yards
  • somersaults in water

Practice Skills

  • Sculling
  • Breaststroke kick with kickboard
  • Breaststroke arms
  • Putting it together – pull, breathe, kick, glide (timing)
  • Dolphin dives
  • Dolphin kick, front and back
  • Intro to fins
  • 2-hand touch on walls
  • butterfly arms
  • butterfly breathing and timing

Safety

  • 25 free/back fully clothed, remove excess clothing while treading water
  • jump in, surface, treat water 90 seconds
  • tread water no hands, 30 seconds

Youth Lesson Level 7 – Endurance and Pre-competition

Pre-requisites

  • Levels 5, 6

Goals

  • 50 free, 50 back, 25 breast, 25 fly (all without stopping, legal strokes)

Practice Skills

  • Backstroke count
  • Free flip turn
  • Wall push-off and pull-out
  • Intro to diving
  • Stroke drills
  • Backstroke turn
  • Dive with pull-out
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