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 programme.
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 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
