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Lessons
Lessons: The Dalton CRA offers a
full range of swimming lessons
including:
Parent Toddler: (6 mos. to 3
years)
Parent Toddler is a passive
unstructured and friendly
environment encouraging the
interaction between other
parents and children and future
swim instructors. Children learn
safety, bubble blowing, and arm
and leg movements. For this
class only parent or child has
to have a membership. NOT BOTH.
Pre School: (3-5 years)
This class is for beginners with
little or no experience in the
water. Children will work on
water adjustment and basic
skills including blowing
bubbles, front and back floats,
putting their faces in the
water, jumping in, turtle dives
and swimming the length of the
pool. Child must have general
membership.
Beginners: (5 years and up)
This class is for beginners who
have little or no experience in
the water. Children will work on
putting their faces in, front
and back floats, rhythmic
breathing, and swimming on their
fronts and backs with a
flotation device such as a
noodle or kickboard.
Beginners Deep End: (5 years
and up) (No Bubble)
This class is for beginners who
are comfortable in the water and
deep end with no flotation
device. The children will review
the skills from the shallow end
beginner’s class and be
introduced to front crawl, back
crawl and rhythmic breathing.
Advanced Beginners:
The children will work on
strengthening their front crawl,
back crawl and completely
submerging their heads. They
will be introduced to diving,
while kneeling, rotary
breathing, and elementary
backstroke kick.
Intermediates:
This class is for those who want
to continue learning the basic
strokes. The children will
strengthen upon rotary
breathing, front crawl and back
crawl. They will be introduced
to the elementary backstroke,
breaststroke kick, side stroke
kick, turning on the wall and
standing front dives.
Swimmers:
This class is for those children
who are up for a challenge.
Child will be able to swim 50
yards of front crawl and back
crawl. They will learn the
butterfly kick, side stroke,
open turns, standing dives from
the board, long shallow dives
and stride jumps.
Advanced Swimmers:
This class is for serious
swimmers. Child will work up to
swimming 100 yards of front
crawl and back crawl, 25 yards
of sidestroke and breaststroke,
and 10 yards of butterfly. They
will also be able to demonstrate
appropriate turns for each
stroke and tread water for 3
minutes.
Private
Swim Lessons:
The CRA has 3 instructors
available to perform private
swims. Please call Tammy
StJohn at 413-684-0260 ext 16 or
send an
email to be set up with an
instructor.
• Please note: Every child
must have a CRA general
membership to participate in
swim lessons. |
