Gives participants success with fundamental skills.  This level marks the beginning of true locomotion skills.  Participants learn to glide and float without support and recover to a vertical position.  Participants further develop simultaneous and alternating arm and leg actions on the front and back, laying the foundation for future strokes.

Introduces basic aquatic skills.  Participants start developing positive attitudes, effective swimming habits and safe practices in and around the water.

Fish:  Participants refine their performance of all six strokes and increase the distance that they swim.  Participants also learn to perform flip turns on front and back.

Flying Fish:  Participants will learn personal water safety and will have a good understanding of how to be safe in, on and around water.

Expand proficiency of previously learned skills by providing additional guided practice.  Participants learn and practice survival floating and learn to swim front crawl and elementary backstroke at rudimentary proficiency levels.  Introduction of the scissors and dolphin kicks, treading water and seated dives.

Students will increase endurance on skills learned in level 3 and will be introduced to sidestroke, breaststroke, back crawl, butterfly and open turns.