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Objective:
To teach children how to breathe.
To teach children the back float.
Review:
1. If one of the children in your group gets in the water and
plunges his face right in, remark, "Well, that's a good way
to get wet all over. Shall we all do it? Big breath, face
down." Some will, some won't. The "won'ts" will get wet
in the way familiar to them by now.
2. Big breath and hold it. Blow out the air. If the count of
air held is to ten or fifteen, remark on how tremendous an
achievement this is.
3. Big breath and hold face under water. "If we can hold our
breath out of water to the count of ten, don't you think we
can hold our breath under water to the count of ten?"
Children all submerge faces at the same time and the
teacher counts loudly.
Child: Last night in the bathtub I held my breath to a
hundred.
Teacher: With your head in the water?
Child: Uh uh! With my head out of the water.
Teacher: If you can hold it to a hundred with your head
out, how about holding it to only ten with your face
down?
Child: Because I don't like water on my face.
Teacher: You're not used to having so much water on
your face. When you get used to it, you won't mind it
any longer. The only way to get used to it is to keep
doing it. Let's go. Big breath everybody. Face down; one,
two, three, four. . . . Well, four is more than three, and
you did three yesterday.
Child: I'll do a hundred tomorrow, but I'm not used to it
any more today.
Related terms include swimming lessons and swim fins.
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