Students will continue developing their swimming endurance and begin working on more advanced swimming strokes, such as the side stroke and butterfly. Basic life saving practices, such as a reach-throw technique, will be introduced that focus specifically on staying safe around pools, lakes, and rivers.
Skills List:
Water Entries
- Jump into deep water from the edge (10 ft or greater) and recover to the wall.
- Jump into deep water from a height (diving board or diving blocks) and recover to the wall.
- Perform a seated head first entry from the edge of the pool in 9 ft of water or more and recover to the wall
- Perform a kneeling head first entry from the edge of the pool in 9 ft of water or more and recover to the wall
- Perform a standing head first entry from the edge of the pool in 9 ft of water or more and recover to the wall.
Aquatic Skills
- Feet first surface dives in deep water submerging at least 3 to 5 feet to retrieve an object
- Treading water using flutter, whip, and rotary kicks
- Introduction of the survival swim and able to perform it for up to 1 minute
- Control breath to swim underwater for 5 to 10 ft.
Swimming Skills
- Demonstrate whip kick, flutter kick, scissor kick, and dolphin kick with kickboard or aquatic barbell.
- Perform the front crawl/back crawl/elementary backstroke for 25 meters (or 1 pool length) without stopping
- Demonstrate the breaststroke for 15 meters
- Demonstrate side stroke for 15 meters
- Perform an open turn during front and back crawl
Safety Lessons
- Throwing Assists from the edge of the pool
- What to do if you get into trouble in water
- How water can make us sick
Exit Skills
- Perform front crawl for 50 meters with open turns
- Perform back crawl for 50 meters with open turns
- Perform elementary backstroke for 25 meters
- Perform breaststroke for 25 meters
- Perform sidestroke for 25 meters
- Perform standing head first entry from edge of pool
