Northfield Community Education

Starfish swim lessons will orient children to the aquatic environment, help them acquire rudimentary levels of basic swimming, and will build on the aquatic curriculum learned in the Water Babies & Aqua Tots' classes by providing additional guided practice with increased distances and times. Your child will love learning to swim with our creative curriculum themes like Safari, Outer-space, Circus, and Ocean! Children are allowed to participate without an adult/parent in the water.

Purpose: To orient preschool-age children to the aquatic environment and to help them acquire rudimentary levels of basic aquatic skills while becoming more proficient with aquatic movements as distance and time is increased. 

Learning Objectives:
- Enter and exit water using ladder, steps, side, by stepping in from a low height and by jumping in to shoulder deep water
- Blow bubbles through mouth and nose
- Submerge mouth, nose and eyes and hold breath for 10 seconds
- Bobbing
- Rotary Breathing
- Open eyes under water and retrieve submerged objects
- Front and back glides and recover to a vertical position
- Back float for 5 - 15 seconds and recover to a vertical position
- Front, jellyfish and tuck floats for 10 seconds
- Roll from front to back and back to front
- Change direction of travel while swimming on front or back
- Tread with arm and hand actions and tread water for 15 - 30 seconds
- Finning action on back
- Alternating and simultaneous leg and arm actions on front and back
- Combined arm and leg actions on front and back
- Experience wearing a life jacket in the water
- Learn safety rules and what to do in an emergency