"This lively movement program complements any early elementary curriculum. With many developmentally appropriate, standards-based activities, this resource provides ideas for basic movement, cooperative activities, educational gymnastics, and rhythm and dance lessons"--
Pica, an education consultant specializing in children's activity, provides movement activities for use with children ages six to eight in schools, child care settings, recreation centers, and gymnastic centers. She presents openers and closers; basic movement activities (both traveling and nontraveling) related to space, shape, time, force, and flow; cooperative activities for partners and groups; educational gymnastics related to rolling, weight transfer, and balance, and combinations of locomotor and nonlocomotor skills; and rhythm and dance activities related to swinging, sustained, suspended, percussive, vibratory, and collapsing movement, as well as combinations of skills involving emotional content. Each includes extensions, evaluation questions, and curriculum connectors to other content areas, as well as ways to add equipment. The CD contains supplementary music for some activities, and the introduction describes the benefits of moving and learning, benefits for children with special needs, meeting standards, implementing the program, teaching methods, and developmental considerations. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
A complete movement curriculum for early elementary children
Physical education is a critical part of early learning. Movement experiences exercise the whole body including the mind and can help children develop a lifetime desire for health and fitness and success in all areas of academic learning. With more than 100 developmentally appropriate physical activities, this curriculum promotes children’s participation in and enjoyment of creative movement that is inclusive, active, and fun.
Everything you need to get started is here, including:
An introduction to implementing physical education into your curriculum
An explanation of the ways creative movement supports children’s physical, social/emotional, cognitive, and creative development
Tips to create a positive learning environment, suggestions for adding equipment to activities, simple questions to evaluate whether or not the children are meeting the activity’s objective, and information on how the activities meet early learning standards outlined by NAEYC and AAHPERD
A wide variety of activities plus extensions and adaptations for children with special needs falling under five categories: openers and closers, basic movement, cooperative activities, educational gymnastics, and rhythm and dance
Curriculum Connectors that identify each activity’s correlation with content learning areas
A CD filled with original music to add joy and energy to the activities
A physical education curriculum for everyone who works with early elementary children and understands the critical role of movement.
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