"Movement activities can help toddlers channel their energy in creative and beneficial ways as they learn healthy habits. This physical education curriculum includes a variety of lesson plans and activities that support toddlers' movement in developmentally appropriate ways"--
Pica, an education consultant and author specializing in early childhood physical activity, provides 14 30-minute lessons with four activities each to teach toddlers to move and learn. Arranged in progressive order, they consist of body part, nonlocomotor, locomotor, and movement activities for each lesson, with extensions, questions for observation and evaluation, ways to add equipment, and connections to content areas, as well as illustrations of movements. She also discusses the benefits of movement, benefits for children with special needs, standards, implementing the program, teaching methods, adapting activities, and developmental considerations. The accompanying CD contains music to add to the activities. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
A physical education curriculum for everyone who works with toddlers and understands the critical role of movement in early childhood.
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Rae Pica is the founder of Moving & Learning and has been an educational consultant, specializing in children's physical activity, since 1980. A former adjunct instructor with the University of New Hampshire, she is the author of many books, including the text Experiences in Movement and Music, and the award-winning Great Games for Young Children and Jump into Literacy. Rae is known for her lively and informative workshop and keynote presentations and has shared her expertise with such groups as the Sesame Street Research Department, the Head Start Bureau, Centers for Disease Control, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, Gymboree, and state health departments throughout the country. Rae also served on the task force of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) that created national guidelines for early childhood physical activity, is a member of several advisory boards, and blogs for Huffington Post. She is the recipient of the 2013 John P. McGovern Award, presented by Ball State University for contributions in the health field. In addition, Rae is cofounder of BAM Radio Network, the world's largest online education radio network, and host of three radio programs on the Educators Channel: Body, Mind and Child; Taboo; and Teacher's Aid, for which she interviews experts in education, child development, play research, the neurosciences, and more.
