Red Cross Swim Kids 4 Lesson #1 – Dara's

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Page 2 Red Cross Swim Kids 4 Lesson #9 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. Kickboard Pile High Relay Description: 1. Divide swimmers into 2 teams. 2. Make 2 piles of kickboards on the far side of the pool. 3. The first member of each team swims over, grabs a kickboard, and returns. 4. The next member of each team swims over with the kickboard, picks up a second kickboard, and returns. 5. The relay continues until all kickboards are retrieved. Pick a Card Purpose: Review water safety knowledge Description: 1. Show index cards with pictures or descriptions of sites where swimmers should and should not enter the water. 2. Ask swimmers to identify what types of entries are safe (if any) to perform at these sites. Prompt swimmers to identify what they need to do to check the depth of the water for safe diving prior to dive entries. Front Glide/Side Glide Combination Description: 1. In a front glide position, swimmers do a flutter kick while slowly exhaling with their face in the water. 2. One arm pulls through the water into a side glide position. 3. Swimmers take a breath to the side and then recover their arm back to the front glide position. (Arm recovery can be under or over water, depending on the level of the swimmer.) 4. Swimmers can repeat this combination with the same arm several times or can alternate arms. Sponge Relay on Back Purpose: Develop endurance to 15m Description: 1. Divide swimmers into teams. Position each team across the pool from a bucket and sponge, which are placed on the pool deck. Ensure that the distance between the bucket/sponge and the swimmers is between 5 and 15m. 2. Swimmers kick one or two at a time on their back to the sponge, get it wet, roll over, and squeeze it into the bucket. Swimmers then return, doing a flutter kick. 3. The winning team is the one that fills the bucket first. Copyright © 2010 The Canadian Red Cross Society
Red Cross Swim Kids 4 Lesson #10 Duration: 30 minutes Time: ___________________ Equipment: Kickboards Time (mins) Activity/Skill Formation 7 Skills and Water Safety Show How to Contact EMS/9-1-1 - While performing surface support, have swimmers tell you situations for which they would call EMS/9-1-1, call parents, or handle themselves Introduction to Sculling, Shallow Water 12 Strokes and Drills Front Crawl 10m - Streamliner (see page 2) Front Glide/Side Glide Combination 15m (see page 2) - Kicking Competitions (see page 2) - Exaggerated Shoulder Roll Drill 15m (see page 2) 5 Fitness Activity Flutter Kick on Back 15m 5 Review Work on skills requiring further development for this level or the next level. 1 Evaluation Records Hand out a progress card to all swimmers and a completion badge (recognition item) to swimmers who have successfully completed all performance criteria in RCSK 4. Hand out Personal Best Fitness stickers (awarded for distance achieved). Encourage swimmers to continue to practise their swimming skills and to register for more Red Cross Swim Kids lessons. Copyright © 2010 The Canadian Red Cross Society
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