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A complete movement curriculum for preschoolers and kindergartners
Give children opportunities to explore all kinds of movement, to find and use their own personal rhythms, and to feel good about participating in physical activity. This curriculum incorporates more than 80 developmentally appropriate movement activities designed to help preschoolers and kindergartners develop habits that encourage lifelong health and fitness and success in all areas of learning.
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 childrens 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 activitys objective, and information on how the activities meet early learning standards outlined by NAEYC and AAHPERD
Twenty lesson plans with four 45-minute activities per planplus extensions and adaptations for children with special needs
Curriculum Connectors that identify each activitys correlation with content learning areas
A CD filled with original music to add joy and energy to the activities
Synopsis
A physical education curriculum for everyone who works with preschoolers and kindergarteners and understands the critical role of movement.
Synopsis
Physical education, a critical part of the early childhood curriculum, helps children develop lifelong love for fitness. This movement program includes standards-based lesson plans with eighty fun activities, along with a CD with more than twenty original songs. Each activity includes adaptations to use with children who have special needs.
Synopsis
80 movement activities for preschoolers and kindergarteners
Physical education is a critical part of every early childhood curriculum. Children need to move to channel their energies in creative, beneficial ways and to learn habits for lifelong health and fitness. Preschoolers and Kindergarteners Moving and Learning provides 80 developmentally appropriate activities that contribute to a well-rounded curriculum in any classroom or program.
The book contains
An updated introduction reflecting new research and trends in early childhood health and fitness and information on how movement benefits childrens learning and development
Twenty lesson plans, each with one body parts activity, one nonlocomotor activity, one locomotor skill experience, and one activity exploring an element of movement, for a total of 80 activities
Extension ideas and adaptations to use with children who have special needs
Curriculum connections for each activity and explanations about how activities are aligned with and meet early learning standards from NAEYC and AAHPERD
A CD with original music to add joy and energy to the activities
About the Author
Rae Pica: Rae Pica has been an early childhood education consultant, specializing in childrens physical activity, since 1980. She is cofounder of the BAM! Radio Network, the worlds largest online education radio network, and host of Educators Radio programs Body, Mind, and Child and Teachers Aid, for which she interviews experts in education, child development, play research, the neurosciences, and more, on a wide variety of topics. Rae is the founder and director of Moving and Learning, a company offering services and materials related to physical activity for children from birth to age eight. A former adjunct instructor with the University of New Hampshire, she is the author of many books for early childhood professionals and parents. Rae 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, Nickelodeons Blues 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 serves on the executive committee of the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences International.