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Page 2 Red Cross Swim Kids 4 Lesson #5 TEACHING TIP: Remember the 3X (GST) rule when teaching strokes/skills. Do General corrections after entire group attempts item, then give Specific corrections for each swimmer. Follow with Try it again and apply corrections. Local Swimming Conditions and Hazards Purpose: Create awareness about local safe and unsafe swimming conditions and environmental hazards (e.g., spring melt that can result in high water, cold water, changes in water depth and sudden drop-offs, unsafe jumping/diving locations, etc.) and identify Prepare! Stay Safe! Survive! strategies Description: 1. Ask swimmers to identify local water hazards and the conditions that make them hazardous at this time of year (provide pictures if available). 2. Create a safety strategy with swimmers on how to avoid being at risk in these conditions and locations. Have swimmers identify what they need to know and do to prepare, stay safe, and also survive if at risk in these locations. Instruct swimmers to share this safety information with their family members. Bandage Activity Purpose: Practise surface support for 45 seconds and reinforce self-safety Description: 1. Tape a bandage to each swimmer’s nose. 2. Have swimmers enter the water and tread water in one spot without getting the bandage wet. 3. Have swimmers give an example of self-safety (avoiding a dangerous situation). Variations: Party hats, paper in mouth Back Sailboat/Shoulder Roll Combination Description: 1. Swimmers begin with a back glide with a high shoulder roll and then move into a sailboat glide with the arm at a 90-degree angle. Remind them to focus on the transition from rolling the shoulder to bringing the arm out of the water. 2. Each position is held for 3 seconds before switching to the other arm. Multi-Kick Drill Description: 1. In a single stroke cycle, swimmers normally kick 6 times (3 kicks per arm pull). 2. For this drill, use any of the following kicking rhythms to improve coordination, awareness, and the speed of the kick: 4-beat kick 6-beat kick (normal cycle) 8-beat kick Copyright © 2010 The Canadian Red Cross Society
Red Cross Swim Kids 4 Lesson #6 Duration: 30 minutes Time: ___________________ Equipment: Toy phone, variety of toys and rescue equipment, hoops, kickboards, pull-buoys Time (mins) Activity/Skill Formation 2 Skills and Water Safety Show How to Contact EMS/9-1-1 - Practise EMS/9-1-1 phone call with a toy phone - In the call, include your name, your location, what has happened, and the telephone number you are calling from 2 Warm-Up Obstacle Course (see page 2) 2 Fitness Activity Distance Swim 25m - Record the personal best distance for each swimmer 7 Skills and Water Safety Self-Safety – Safe Diving Kneeling Dive, Through Hoops – 3 times Surface Support, Deep Water 45 sec 17 Strokes and Drills Sharks and Minnows (see page 2) Front Crawl 10m - Arms-Only Front Crawl 10m (see page 2) – 3 times - Kicking Competitions (see page 2) – 3 times Front Glide/Side Glide Combination 15m Back Swim with Shoulder Roll 15m Copyright © 2010 The Canadian Red Cross Society
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