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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:
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 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
- Twenty lesson plans with four 45-minute activities per plan—plus extensions and adaptations for children with special needs
- 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
Price: $27.95
Pages: 160
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Imprint: Redleaf Press
Publication Date:
08 April 2014
Trim Size: 10.88 X 8.38 in
ISBN: 9781605542683
Format: Multiple-component retail product
BISACs:
EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Physical Education, HEALTH & FITNESS / Children & Adolescents, EDUCATION / Curricula, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)
Rae Pica is an education consultant dedicated to the development and education of the whole child. A former adjunct instructor at the University of New Hampshire, she is the author of 20 books, including the Moving & Learning series, the textbook Experiences in Movement and Music, and What If Everybody Understood Child Development?: Straight Talk About Bettering Education and Children’s Lives. A popular keynote speaker, Rae also offers online courses and has shared her expertise with such groups as the Sesame Street Research Department, the Head Start Bureau, Bright Horizons, the Centers for Disease Control, and schools, resource and referral agencies, and health departments throughout the country.
Table of Contents
Activity Chart
Curriculum Connectors Chart
Song List
Preface
Introduction
Benefits of Moving & Learning
Implementing the Program
Preschoolers and Kindergartners: Developmental Considerations
Lesson 1
Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
Let’s Bend
Let’s Walk
Exploring Up and Down
Lesson 2
Show Me
Let’s Stretch
“Walking Along Again”
Big and Little
Lesson 3
My Fingers
Bending and Stretching
Let’s Run
Bridges and Tunnels
Lesson 4
See My Hands
Let’s Shake
Creepy-Crawly
Making Shapes
Lesson 5
See My Face
Let’s Sway
Let’s Jump
“Pop Goes the Weasel”
Lesson 6
Simon Says
Let’s Bounce
“Rabbits and ’Roos”
Moving Backward
Lesson 7
“The Body Song”
Exploring Bending and Stretching
Moving Like Animals
“Moving Slow/Moving Fast”
Lesson 8
Mirror Game
Let’s Turn
“Marching Band”
Exploring Body and Spatial Directions
Lesson 9
“Hands-Hands-Hands”
Let’s Sit
Let’s Leap
“Moving Softly/Moving Loudly”
Lesson 10
“A Face Has Many Roles in Life”
Let’s Push and Pull
Let’s Gallop
“Marching Slow/Marching Fast”
Lesson 11
Switcheroo!
Let’s Strike
Follow the Leader
“High & Low”
Lesson 12
Body-Part Relationships
Let’s Lift
Shadow Game
“Robots & Astronauts”
Lesson 13
Traveling Body Parts
Let’s Swing
“Locomotion I”
Exploring Force
Lesson 14
Exploring Right and Left
Let’s Twist
The Tightrope
Exploring Movement Elements
Lesson 15
Exploring Weight Placement
In My Own Space
Let’s Hop
“Staccato/Legato”
Lesson 16
Counting Body Parts
Imitating Movement
Let’s Roll
“Getting Fast/Getting Slow”
Lesson 17
Arms in Motion
Let’s Focus
Let’s Slide
“Getting Louder/Getting Softer”
Lesson 18
Legs in Motion
Pass a Movement
Let’s Skip
“Common Meters”
Lesson 19
Body Halves Opposition
Dodging in Place
“Locomotion II”
“Different Strokes”
Lesson 20
Left Side/Right Side
Combining Nonlocomotor Skills
Combining Locomotor Skills
“Exploring Space”
References
Additional Resources
Activity Chart
Curriculum Connectors Chart
Song List
Preface
Introduction
Benefits of Moving & Learning
Implementing the Program
Preschoolers and Kindergartners: Developmental Considerations
Lesson 1
Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes
Let’s Bend
Let’s Walk
Exploring Up and Down
Lesson 2
Show Me
Let’s Stretch
“Walking Along Again”
Big and Little
Lesson 3
My Fingers
Bending and Stretching
Let’s Run
Bridges and Tunnels
Lesson 4
See My Hands
Let’s Shake
Creepy-Crawly
Making Shapes
Lesson 5
See My Face
Let’s Sway
Let’s Jump
“Pop Goes the Weasel”
Lesson 6
Simon Says
Let’s Bounce
“Rabbits and ’Roos”
Moving Backward
Lesson 7
“The Body Song”
Exploring Bending and Stretching
Moving Like Animals
“Moving Slow/Moving Fast”
Lesson 8
Mirror Game
Let’s Turn
“Marching Band”
Exploring Body and Spatial Directions
Lesson 9
“Hands-Hands-Hands”
Let’s Sit
Let’s Leap
“Moving Softly/Moving Loudly”
Lesson 10
“A Face Has Many Roles in Life”
Let’s Push and Pull
Let’s Gallop
“Marching Slow/Marching Fast”
Lesson 11
Switcheroo!
Let’s Strike
Follow the Leader
“High & Low”
Lesson 12
Body-Part Relationships
Let’s Lift
Shadow Game
“Robots & Astronauts”
Lesson 13
Traveling Body Parts
Let’s Swing
“Locomotion I”
Exploring Force
Lesson 14
Exploring Right and Left
Let’s Twist
The Tightrope
Exploring Movement Elements
Lesson 15
Exploring Weight Placement
In My Own Space
Let’s Hop
“Staccato/Legato”
Lesson 16
Counting Body Parts
Imitating Movement
Let’s Roll
“Getting Fast/Getting Slow”
Lesson 17
Arms in Motion
Let’s Focus
Let’s Slide
“Getting Louder/Getting Softer”
Lesson 18
Legs in Motion
Pass a Movement
Let’s Skip
“Common Meters”
Lesson 19
Body Halves Opposition
Dodging in Place
“Locomotion II”
“Different Strokes”
Lesson 20
Left Side/Right Side
Combining Nonlocomotor Skills
Combining Locomotor Skills
“Exploring Space”
References
Additional Resources