Our Infant Swim Lesson Mission
We seek to provide the BEST swimming and learning experience possible. We constantly strive to enhance our programs and customer service so that our clients (your children) will make swimming part of a healthy lifestyle. Whatever your goal, swimming competitively, to relieve stress, or to stay fit, we hope you enjoy the sport for a lifetime.
Our Philosophy
At Noonan Family Swim School, we create a safe and loving environment in which infants and toddlers can be reacquainted with the aquatic environment. With a soft touch approach, the parent and child are gently guided through water adjustment, water safety, and participate in a bonding experience that lasts a lifetime
Our Program
In our program, we aide in infant and toddler’s physical, mental, emotional and social development.
The swimming skills that the Little Swimmer program focuses on are: water safety, balance, floating, breath control and movement. We accomplish these through:
Teaching basic swim skills using songs and games
Developing gross and fine motor skills
Teaching commands and signals for water safety and breath control.
Our Levels
Parent and Me 1 (PM 1)
The focus of PM 1 is to create an environment in which parent’s can bond with their children while working on water adjustment.
6 to 15 months
This class helps parents learn how to handle and teach their children in the water, while focusing on floating, development of sensory and tactile skills, and introducing submersion.
16 to 36 months
At this age, we teach floating, water safety, submersion cues and submersion, while developing communication skills between the parent and child help build a healthy water relationship.
Parent and Me 2 (PM 2)
This class is for children that have completed
PM 1 and are comfortable in the water, know basic water safety, and are comfortable with submersion and floating.
6 to 15 months
This class expands upon the water safety base from PM 1. Children work on developing more comfort in back float, breath control, building communication, and are introduced to independent swimming.
16 to 36 months
Children at this stage are developing more independence, stronger water safety skills, more relaxed floats, as well as developing greater breath control for longer and multiple submersions.
Little Swimmers
This is a transition class in which children begin to swim less with their parents and more with the instructor. Participants of this class must have taken PM 2 and have permission from the instructor to advance.
Tips for Success!
Have Fun! – Your child’s main mode of learning is play. Play teaches infants and toddlers that the water is fun!
Relax! – Do not compare children, every child is different and progresses at their own pace.
Communicate what we are doing. Tell Don’t Ask Don’t ask your child, especially at 2, “do you want to…” because the answer is inevitably NO. Instead use phrases such as ” now we are going to do…”
Allow your child to explore and be independent.
