Synopses & Reviews
A complete movement curriculum for early elementary children
Physical education is a critical part of early learning. Movement experiences exercise the whole bodyincluding the mindand 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 childrens 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 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
A wide variety of activitiesplus extensions and adaptations for children with special needsfalling under five categories: openers and closers, basic movement, cooperative activities, educational gymnastics, and rhythm and dance
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 early elementary children and understands the critical role of movement.
Synopsis
Complementing any early elementary curriculum, this movement program provides more than one hundred standards-based activities that are exciting and developmentally appropriate. It also includes extension ideas, adaptations to use with children who have special needs, and a CD with more than twenty original songs.
Synopsis
More than 100 movement activities for early elementary children
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. Early Elementary Children Moving and Learning provides more than 100 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
More than 100 activities that fall under five categories: openers and closers, basic movement, cooperative activities, educational gymnastics, and rhythm and dance
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.