Swimming Sea Animals
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2025 Swim Lessons
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Levels of Progression
Options & Pricing
2025 Session Dates

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Swimming Sea Animals is dedicated to teaching aquatic survival life skills to swimmers of all ages. Our instructors are certified professionals who meet the rigorous standards of our Guard Houston program, ensuring a safe and effective learning environment. Students are grouped by experience level and progress through our curriculum as their skills improve. This approach fosters a sense of accomplishment and motivation to continue learning.

One of the most rewarding parts of having a pool is watching a child learn to swim. Our classes contain no more than four students to ensure that all children receive the attention they need to become proficient swimmers. As well as delivering the lesson programming, each instructor handles class registration, certificates, and communication with parents. Relax by the pool while our trainers do the work.

Swimming Sea Animals
Five Levels of Progression

• IPAP Lessons - Baby Seal

  The Swimming Sea Animals Infant and Preschool Aquatics Program class is for very young children with participation of their guardians. This is an entry-level water familiarization and comfort course targeting basic skills like water comfort, breath holding, and submersal.

• Level 1 - Clown Fish

  Help students feel comfortable in the water. For a child who has developed a fear of the water through a bad water experience or who has difficulties due to parent separation anxiety. This class will teach the child that the water can be fun and safe by using toys, stories, and water safety rules. They will be taught to submerge mouth, nose and eyes breath control, front and back float, front crawl (beginning freestyle), elementary back stroke, and how to enter and exit water safely.

• Level 2 - Sea Horse

  Level 2 gives students success with fundamental skills. Students will learn and become comfortable entering water by stepping or jumping from the side, opening eyes underwater pick up a submerged object, rolling over from front to back, back to front, learning to swim on their side. Students will continue with exiting water safely using a ladder or side float on their front and back. Students will also learn to tread water using arm and leg motions, move in water while using a float, submerge entire head, perform front and back glide and swim on front and back using combined strokes.

• Level 3 - Sting Ray

  Level 3 builds on the skills in Level 2 through additional guided practice. Level 3 participants learn to:

  • Jump into deep water from the side
  • Bob with the head fully submerged
  • Perform a survival float and butterfly-kick
  • Demonstrate proper body motion
  • Dive from kneeling or standing position
  • Use rotary breathing in horizontal position
  • Change from horizontal to vertical position on front and back
  • Submerge and retrieve an object
  • Perform front and back glide
  • Perform front and back crawl
  • Perform a reaching assist
• Level 4 - Hammerhead

  Level 4 develops confidence in the skills learned and improves other aquatic skills. Participants learn to perform a shallow dive or dive from stride position, perform open turns on front and back using any stroke and develop and critique strokes.

• Level 5 - Shark

  Level 5 provides further coordination and refinement of strokes. Level 5 participants learn to perform the following:

  • Tread water with two different kinds of strokes
  • Standing dive
  • Butterfly Front flip turn
  • Breaststroke
  • Backstroke flip turn
  • Elementary backstroke
  • Tuck surface dive
  • Front and back crawl
  • Sidestroke Shallow dive
  • Glide two body lengths & begin any front stroke

Swim Lesson Options & Pricing

• Group Lessons

  Starting at $130 per session, with a one-time registration fee of $50. Our group sessions maintain a 4-to-1 student-teacher ratio, ensuring personalized attention. Classes are 30 minutes long, meeting twice weekly for three weeks, totaling six classes per session. Sessions are available Monday through Thursday throughout the day.

• Semi-Private Lessons

  Offered at $240 per session, these sessions provide a more personal learning environment with a 2-to-1 student-teacher ratio.

• Turbo Learner Lessons

  For those seeking accelerated progress, our Turbo Learner program offers four classes per week. This intensive schedule is ideal for swimmers looking to quickly advance their swimming skills.

Swimming Sea Animals Scheduling

We understand the importance of flexibility. Our classes are held in various neighborhoods across the city and surrounding suburbs during daylight hours. Enrollment for the 2025 sessions is open:

• Session 1June 2nd – June 20th
• Session 2June 25th – July 15th
• Session 3July 21st – August 8th
• Session 4TBD
• Session 5TBD

Session 4 and 5 dates will be confirmed and announced around Memorial Day. Swimming lesson classes are regularly held in the morning, afternoon, and evening in select communities around the city; visit the Swimming Sea Animals enrollment form for an up-to-date list of the exact locations and availability.