STRONG SWIMMERS CONFIDENT KIDS Goggle Up Swim Lesson Program YMCA Swim Lessons teach through five basic components: personal safety, personal growth, water sports and games, stroke development, and rescues. In addition to swimming skills, YMCA lessons incorporate our values of caring, respect, honesty and responsibility. Our curriculum is focused on developing stronger, more confident swimmers and features smaller class sizes and better student to instructor ratios. Lessons are available for ages 6 months-adults. PARENT AND CHILD AQUATICS The Parent-Child class is for parents and their children 6 months to 3 years of age. This class is designed for the parent and child to participate and learn together, while having fun and learning basic water adjustment and aquatic skills. The goal is to increase comfort in the water and build a foundation of basic aquatic and water safety skills. Parent Child Summer Sessions: Summer I: Wednesdays Evenings June 3rd-June 24th Summer II: Mon/Wed Mornings June 15th-June 24th Summer III: Wednesday Evenings July 1st-July 22nd Summer IV: Mon/Wed Mornings July 20th– July 29th Fees: $12.50 Members $25.00 Non-Members PRE-SCHOOL AQUATICS SCHOOL AGE SWIM LESSONS (3-5 years of Age) Four fun, age-appropriate levels teach basic aquatic safety and survival skills to increase children’s comfort level in and around the water. (6-16 years of age) Three progressive levels help swimmers of varying ages and abilities develop their water safety, survival and swim skills. Preschool/Grade School Summer Sessions: Summer I: Mondays Nights June 1st-July 20th Summer II: Tues/Thurs Nights June 2nd-June 25th Summer III: Tues/Thurs Nights July 7th-July 30th Fees: $25.00 Members $50.00 Non-Members Times available at Registration! Registration Now Open! FIND US AND CONNECT! KEARNEY FAMILY YMCA 4500 6TH AVE 308.237-9622 WWW.KEARNEYYMCA.ORG YMCA Swim Lessons Mom, Pop, & Me: This class is for parents and their children 6 months to 18 months of age. This class is designed for the parent and child to participate and learn together, while having fun and learning basic water adjustment and aquatic skills. Pike with Parent: This class is for parents and their children 18 months to 3 years of age. Pike with Parent builds on the skills introduced in Mom, Pop & Me, with participants improving these skills an learning more advanced skills and independence in the water Preschool Lessons: Pikes: this class is designed to be the child’s first experience in the water without a parent in the class with him or her. Water safety skills, water adjustment, independence in the water, and basic stroke development are taught through games and activities. Eels: Participants build on the skills they learned in Pike and continue to become more in-dependent swimmers. Safety skills and knowledge are expanded and reinforced during this level. Swimmers will work to gain confidence without an instructional floatation (float belt). Rays: This class will review the skills learned in the Pike and Eels levels, while continuing to improve on stroke skills, body positioning, and independence in the water. Swimmers work on building endurance, learn basic diving skills, and swimming independently of an instruction flotation (float belt). Starfish: This class continues to build on the skills learned in the previous pre-school levels. Breaststroke kick, front crawl, and breathing techniques are introduced and practiced. Grade School Lessons: Polliwogs: This class will focus on confidence, floating, flutter kicking, forward motion, arm rotation, and breathing. Guppies: This class is for swimmers who are comfortable in the water and can swim independently for 15 feet or more. This class teaches freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and elementary backstroke. Minnows: Swimmers will continue to develop their freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, and elementary stroke, while learning the sidestroke, and begin to refine diving skills.