Classes

Classes are once a week for 30 minutes, and continue year round. Studies show that students best retain their swim skills when they have regular instruction over a long period of time. Many students sign-up for classes twice a week. We highly recommend classes twice a week for those who only swim with us part of the year, rather than year round. We do our very best to offer you a class time that works great with your busy schedule. We teach private, semi-private, and group lessons.

Our group lessons are very different than what you might have experienced at other swim classes. We limit our group classes to a maximum of 4 students, and our "parent & me" classes to a maximum of 6 students. Our semi-private classes have a maximum of 2 students.

Students in a semi-private class are comfortable around water but are just learning to swim should consider a semi-private class. Semi-private classes are recommended for students in our pink through yellow levels, but are also available for other levels. Semi-private classes also work great for siblings that swim at different levels, but parents would like them to swim at the same time.

We recommend private lessons to our students with competitive swim goals. In fact, we have a lot of competition swimmers who come to us for help with their technique because swim teams often focus on speed and neglect technique. We also recommend private lessons to our students who just want the one-on-one attention. All of our students are welcome to enroll in private lessons. Whether you or your student is enrolled in group or private lessons, it is our goal to provide the best service and highest quality of swim instruction.

No matter what type of class you're student is enrolled in, you will have a "Safety Week" class at least once a quarter. The entire swim lesson will be conducted in street clothes, in the pool, while we teach essential life saving tips for kids and parents. Call us for a free phone consultation. We would to help make your child safer in the water.

Tuition Rates

Private Lessons: $185/per month
Toddler Private: $100 (20 min. private class)/per month
Semi-Private: $98 per child/per month
Parent & Child: $65 per child/per month
Group Lessons: $65 per child/per month

Class Levels and Descriptions

At Little Honu Swim School we believe it is important to know how well our students are swimming. We want to encourage our students to become the best swimmers possible, while maintaining a fun learning environment. Our reward system is designed to teach young minds that commitment and hard work yields rewards. This serves as a wonderful confidence builder with kids.

As students display that they possess the skills of their current level, they will be awarded a ribbon, a certificate of recognition, and advance to the next swim level. Below is a short summary of the swim levels/ribbon levels that our students will be instructed on, and assisted to achieve the following...

Achievement Awards

: Ages 6 months to 14 months. This level will focus on educating parents on water safety, have water fun, emphasis on back floats and water on the face, learning to hold on to the edge and feel water movement/balance, assisted kicking movements, horizontal swimming, intro to water submersions. Maximum of 6 students per class.
: Ages 15 months to 35 months. This level with focus on the following: a pool edge experience - monkey walk, learning how to exit pool, jump recovery, comfortable face submersion, kicking development, intro to breath control, and basic jumps.
: Ages 18 months to 35 months. This class is for students who are transitioning from a "Toddler and Me" or who have swim experience. This level will focus on children becoming comfortable with their face in the water, opening their eyes under water, swimming under water and reaching for the pool edge, monkey walking along the wall, retrieving objects from lower steps, back floats assisted by the instructor, and sit-jumps to the instructor.
: Introduction to the basic skills necessary for swimming. For nervous students or beginners. We work on putting face in the water comfortably, underwater submersions, survival skills off the edge of the pool, kicking, back floats, and great attitudes.
: Must be comfortable underwater but not have yet caught a breath on their own. We work on consistent kicking, back floats, extended swim lengths, independence in the water to get their breath unassisted and introductory dives.
: Must be able to take their own breath and be comfortable swimming across the pool independently. We work on breath control and swimming horizontally with heads down and bottoms up with efficient kicking. On the backstroke development we work on swimming on their back independently without arms.
: Must have mastered breath control, horizontal swimming, efficient kicking and independence on the back. We focus bringing freestyle arm development with side breathing and horizontal swimming on the back.
: Must have mastered horizontal swimming on the back and a basic freestyle arm stroke with an independent kick. We focus on back stroke arm development freestyle side breathing, with an introduction to breaststroke and butterfly kick.
: Must have solid freestyle and backstroke skills. We focus on development of the breast stroke and butterfly stroke, incorporating arm and leg coordination. Starts and flip-turns will be introduced.