The number one Red Cross Safety Tip is: Learn to Swim!  What better place to take Swimming Lessons than at the Flathead Valley’s Premier Aquatic and Fitness Center, The Wave.

Wave Swim Lessons are conducive to your busy summer schedules, and your child has the opportunity to move through different levels. American Red Cross Swim Lessons are progressive programs. This means that every level in the program is a building block with vital skills and development requirements for the next level. Each child will progress and mature at his or her own rate.

Learn-to-Swim teaches aquatic and safety skills in a logical progression. The objective is to teach people to swim and to be safe in, on and around the water.

Skills are categorized in the following way:

• Water Entry and Exit
• Breath Control and Underwater Swimming
• Buoyancy
• Changing Direction and Position
• Treading
• Swimming on Front, Back and Side
• General and Personal Water Safety
• Helping Others
• Fundamentals of Diving
• Fitness Swimming

Group Lessons consist of eight 30-minute lessons, taught Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday.

Customs (at least 3 swimmers), Privates & Duet (2 swimmers) sessions consist of eight 30-minute lessons scheduled for the convenience of the participants. Single and four class packages available.

Children who are eligible for reduced or free school lunches are eligible for scholarship. Determination will be made upon application.