Preschoolers and Kindergartners Moving and Learning: A Physical Education Curriculum

Description

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 Review: Good book for little kid PE lessons - I teach TK in California. This book has been very useful as I teach one session of PE per week. I've been going through all the lessons week by week, selecting the portions I find a appropriate and which I can complete in a 30 minute timeslot. There are 20 lessons, some of which I split up into two. I begin each lesson with a jog and warm-up exercises, then we take two or things from the book. Easy, easy. The format is quick and simple to use, there is variety, the vocabulary is good. A valuable source so you don't have to invent it all yourself. Review: Great movement curriculum - As expected