Friendly Fin Swim Lessons
E-mail: FriendlyFinSwim@gmail.com
Founded by Allison Woods
Founded by Allison Woods
Instructors
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Allison Woods
*ARC WSI Certificate (extended until Sept. 30) |
Rebekah Smith
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Payments due before class or session. Pay at the club with cash, card, or check (made out to the Culpeper Recreation Club).
Non-members will have to pay a guest fee of $5 per swimmer if their lesson is during pool hours. Thanks!
Non-members will have to pay a guest fee of $5 per swimmer if their lesson is during pool hours. Thanks!
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- Familiarize children approximately 3 and 5 years old to the aquatic environment and help them acquire rudimentary basic aquatic skills
- Help participants begin to develop positive attitudes and safe practices in and around water
- Prerequisites: Children should be approximately 3 years old or older
Lesson Length: 30 minutes
- Build on and improve skills learned in Preschool Aquatics Level 1
- Increase knowledge of water safety topics introduced in Preschool Aquatics Level 1
- Prerequisites: Successful demonstration of the Preschool Aquatics Level 1 exit skills
Lesson Length: 30 minutes
- Increase proficiency and build on the basic aquatic skills learned in Preschool Aquatics Levels 1 and 2
- Reinforce water safety concepts and skills introduced in earlier levels and introduce additional water safety topics
- Prerequisites: Successful demonstration of the Preschool Aquatics Level 2 exit skills
Lesson Length: 30 minutes
- Familiarize children between the ages of 6 months and approximately 3 years with the water and teach swimming readiness skills
- Provide safety information for parents and teach techniques parents can use to orient their children to the water
- Prerequisites: Child must be at least 6 months old, Parent must accompany child to each class
Lesson Length: 30 minutes
- Improve skills learned in Parent and Child Aquatics Level 1 and teach more advanced skills
- Continue to build on water safety knowledge
- Prerequisites: Comfort level with skills taught in Parent and Child Aquatics Level 1, Parent must accompany child to each class
Lesson Length: 30 minutes
- Introduction to water skills
- Orient participants to the aquatic environment and help them gain basic aquatic skills.
- Help participants begin to develop positive attitudes and safe practices around water
- Prerequisites: Participants usually start at about 5-6 years of age
Lesson Length: 40 minutes
- Fundamental Aquatic Skills
- Build on the basic aquatic skills and water safety skills and concepts learned in Level 1
- Prerequisites: Successful demonstration of the Learn-to-Swim Level 1 exit skills
Lesson Length: 40 minutes
- Stroke Development
- Build on the skills learned in Levels 1 and 2 to help participants achieve basic water competency in a pool environment
- Prerequisites: Successful demonstration of the Learn-to-Swim Level 2 exit skills
Lesson Length: 40 minutes
- Stroke Improvement
- Improve participants’ proficiency in performing the swimming strokes that were introduced in Level 3
- Prerequisites: Successful demonstration of the Learn-to-Swim Level 3 exit skills
Lesson Length: 40 minutes
- Stroke Refinement
- Help participants refine their performance of all six swimming strokes (i.e., front crawl, back crawl, butterfly, breaststroke, elementary backstroke and sidestroke)
- Prerequisites: Successful demonstration of the Learn-to-Swim Level 4 exit skills assessment
Lesson Length: 40 minutes
* Learn-to-Swim level 6 (swimming and skill proficiency: personal water safety or fitness swimmer per request)
