Infant & Toddler



Sea stars
Sea Stars are our first-time infants and toddlers, 5-36 months old working on enjoying the water, safety, comfort, putting their face in, and assisted back float and tummy float.
Cuttlefish
Cuttlefish are our experienced infants and toddlers. They know the routines, safely enter the water only when parent/caregiver gives permission, happy participate in class, and selfinitiate putting face in the water and holding breath for a few seconds. These up-andcoming swimmers are working on independent floating and movement through the water, self-rescue, and rollover breathing.


Bat rays
Super two-year-olds! Bat Rays are not quite ready to participate without mom and dad, but they ARE swimming independently, floating on their own, and ready to improve their breathing technique.
Seal Pups
Seal Pups is a specialized level in our Infant Toddler program with a 3:1 ratio. These grads
of Pacific Flow Parent and Me (Sea Stars, Cuttlefish, or Bat Rays) are transitioning to class
in the shallow end, class without mom and dad, and to more of a pre-school environment.
Parents should be prepared to get in the water on any given class day. Swimmers stay in
Seal Pups until their third birthday then we’ll find a spot in a 3-year-old Jellyfish or Sea
Otters Class for them.


Orcas
Orcas have mastered side-breathing and have the foundation of backstroke. We’ll add bilateral breathing for freestyle, refine the overall freestyle stroke to competitive but efficient form, introduce long-axis rotation to backstroke, and start breaststroke.
Curriculum
How we teach
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Safety and Comfort
From infants to adults, safety and water adaptation skills are in every class
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Breath Control
Swimmers will extend their breath count as they progress and learn how their own body responds in the water with rhythmic breathing
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Balance and Buoyancy
Through play and drills, swimmers will become comfortable in any body position in the water as they prepare for formal
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Basic and Advanced Strokes
From basic paddling to butterfly, rollovers to competitive freestyle, swimmers will progress through all formal strokes.

