Entry: ‘If your happy and you know it’
Swim Front/back:
- Front float hold or swim position.
- Back float baby. Cradle/ two or one hand float or head and shoulders supported.
- Song: There’s a fish at the bottom of the swimming pool, and his name is Wiggly Woo.
Swim Front/Back: Seat hold and Safety hold. Adult supports baby swimming for bricks in the water. Start making a tower on the edge.
Conditioning: Watering cans and cups at the other side, baby swims to, and adult cues water pour. (Put toys behind the tower).
Submersion: Front facing hold or Swim Position – Progress to let go in the water. X2
- Adult swims baby across the pool towards the tower saying “Who’s in the tower?”
- Half way across, cue submerge and swim to tower and find/collect toy.
(One at a time water pour from teacher if needed).
Back floats – In a circle: Holding toy
Swim: Song: Twinkle, twinkle little toes.
Big Mat – Kicking on tummy/ Hold on, Jumping in.
- Put baby on tummy, legs in the water
- Sit up on the mate
- Cue baby to Jump/fall in – Adult looking for readiness to go in the water.
- Song: ‘This is the way…’ Kick our legs, sit on the mat, jump in the pool.
Back floats and encouraged kicking:
- Adult floats baby with baby’s head on their shoulder encouraged kicks across the pool. Baby’s feet on the wall to start with a zoom into: two or one handed float or head and shoulder supported float.
- Song: Zoom, Zoom, Zoom we’re going to the moon launching from the wall
Playtime
Toys and woggles in the pool for relaxed play.
Exit: Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, and goodbye.