Rae Pica

Early Elementary Children Moving and Learning (eBook, ePUB)

A Physical Education Curriculum

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 & 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 children's 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
Original music to add joy and energy to the activities

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Redleaf Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781605542720
• Artikelnr.: 40538936

Autorenporträt

Rae Pica: Rae Pica has been an early childhood education consultant, specializing in children's physical activity, since 1980. She is cofounder of the BAM! Radio Network, the world's largest online education radio network, and host of Educators Radio programs Body, Mind, and Child and Teacher's 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, 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 serves on the executive committee of the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences International.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Curriculum Connectors Chart
Song List
Preface
Introduction
Benefits of Moving & Learning
Implementing the Program
Early Elementary Children: Developmental Considerations
Unit 1 Openers and Closers
This section consists of the "quieter" activities-those involving isolated
body parts, such as the hands, face, arms, or legs, and specific relaxation
exercises. Choose these activities to psychologically and physically
prepare your students to begin or end their movement classes-or any time a
less vigorous activity is called for.
Unit 2 Basic Movement
These activities explore the fundamental locomotor and nonlocomotor skills
and the movement elements of space, shape, time, force, and flow. They form
the foundation of a child-centered physical education program and provide
the basic knowledge essential to the next three categories.
Unit 3 Cooperative Activities
The activities in this section serve three purposes: 1) They offer the
students opportunities to work cooperatively with partners and in small and
large groups. 2) They provide greater challenge, beyond what the children
experience in Unit 2. 3) These activities can physically and emotionally
prepare the students to successfully work together in those educational
gymnastics and rhythm and dance activities requiring participation in pairs
or groups.
Unit 4 Educational Gymnastics
Included in this section are activities related to the gymnastic skills of
transferring weight, rolling, and balancing. The exploration of
combinations of locomotor and nonlocomotor skills are also included in this
unit, as gymnastics typically involves the sequencing of movement skills.
Unit 5 Rhythm and Dance
The movement element of rhythm, the musical concepts of beat and meter, and
the qualities of swinging, sustained, suspended, percussive, vibratory, and
collapsing movement are explored in this unit. The Statues activities offer
students the opportunity to improvise and express themselves to a variety
of music, and the Movement Words activities provide a chance for students
to perform combinations of skills in interpretive and expressive ways. All
of the activities in this unit prepare children for dance experiences in
the upper elementary grades.
References
Additional Resources