Toddlers Moving and Learning: A Physical Education Curriculum

Toddlers Moving and Learning: A Physical Education Curriculum

by Rae Pica
Toddlers Moving and Learning: A Physical Education Curriculum

Toddlers Moving and Learning: A Physical Education Curriculum

by Rae Pica

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Overview

A complete movement curriculum for toddlers

Toddlers need—and love—to move! Young children are ready to use their muscles and minds as they stretch, dance, wiggle, explore, and learn. This physical education program incorporates more than 50 developmentally appropriate activities designed to help toddlers channel their energy in creative, beneficial ways as they 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
Fourteen lesson plans with four 30-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


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781605542676
Publisher: Redleaf Press
Publication date: 04/08/2014
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 662,318
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Rae Pica is an education consultant dedicated to the development and education of the whole child. A former adjunct instructor at the Universityof 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

Table of Contents

Activity Chart
Curriculum Connectors Chart
Song List
Preface
Introduction
Benefits of Moving & Learning
Implementing the Program
Toddlers: Developmental Considerations

Lesson 1
Heads, Bellies, Toes
Let’s Stretch
Let’s Walk
Exploring Up and Down

Lesson 2
Show Me
Let’s Bend
Let’s Run
Exploring Straight and Round

Lesson 3
Flexing/Pointing Feet
Let’s Shake
Let’s Jump
Shapes in Motion

Lesson 4
“Where Is Thumbkin?”
Let’s Sway
Tiny Steps/Giant Steps
Being Balloons

Lesson 5
“Open & Close”
Let’s Turn
Let’s Gallop
“Pop Goes the Weasel”

Lesson 6
“The Wash Song”
Bending and Stretching
Let’s Creep
“Moving Slow/Moving Fast”

Lesson 7
See My Hands
Let’s Strike
Let’s Roll
“The Bumblebee”

Lesson 8
See My Feet
Let’s Push and Pull
“Marching Band”
Moving Backward

Lesson 9
See My Face
The Tightrope
Follow the Leader
“Marching Slow/Marching Fast”

Lesson 10
Mirror Game
Let’s Lift
Moving Like the Animals
“Slow-Motion Moving”

Lesson 11
Simon Says
Let’s Balance
Let’s Tiptoe
“The Tiptoe Song”

Lesson 12
“The Body Song”
Shake, Wiggle, and Vibrate
Let’s Jump Again
“Moving Softly/Moving Loudly”

Lesson 13
Body-Part Balance
“High & Low”
Let’s Crawl
“Robots & Astronauts”

Lesson 14
Traveling Body Parts
“In My Space”
Follow the Leader
“Common Meters”

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