Level B Swim Lessons

Ages 4-5

This class builds on and improves skills learned in Level A. This course is for those students who are not afraid in the water and have had swim lessons on their own before.

Participants will work on:

• Step into shoulder-deep water with aid

• Bobbing

• Front float, 3 sec.; back float, 15 sec. with aid

• Recover from front & back float or glide to a vertical position

• Tread water with aid, 15 seconds

To successfully complete Level B student MUST:

• Lay comfortably on their back and be able to relax

• Put their face in the water and blow bubbles

• Put head all the way underwater doing a full bob

Water safety is a priority!
Beyond the standard skills required by the Red Cross, our water safety instructors teach additional skills to enhance children's safety and preparedness in and around water. If a child were to fall into a body of water it is imperative that they learn how to stay calm, get on their back, orientate themself (find the shore/edge of pool/boat), and get out. You will observe this skill being reinforced daily in swim levels A, B, C and 1.

For safety, swimmers MUST be comfortable with the following before advancing to the next swim level:

Level A
• Lay comfortably on their back and relax
• Completely place face in the water & blow bubbles

Level B
• Completely submerge head while doing a bob

Level C
• Jump off the edge and keep their head above water

Level 1
• Jump off the diving board
• Independent Back float (5 seconds)