Hudson Community Services: Community Education, School Age Care, Summer Programs

Ages 5+

Objective:
To develop participants’ confidence in the strokes learned thus far and to improve other aquatic skills. In level 4 participants’ improve their skills and increase their endurance by swimming familiar strokes (front crawl, elementary backstroke) for greater distance. Participants add the arms to the scissors kick for the sidestroke. Participants also start to learn the back crawl, breaststroke and butterfly and the basics of turning at a wall.

Exit Skills Assessment:
When participants complete Learn-to-Swim Level 4, they are starting to demonstrate effective and efficient strokes in the front crawl and elementary backstroke. They are starting to show stroke proficiency in the breaststroke, back crawl, butterfly and sidestroke. They can enter the water headfirst from both compact and stride positions. There are two parts to the exit skill assessment:

1. Perform a feet-first entry into deep water, swim front crawl for 25 yards, change direction and position as necessary and swim elementary backstroke for 25 yards.
2. Swim breaststroke 15 yards, change direction and position as necessary and swim back crawl for 15 yards.