Preschoolers & Kindergartners Moving and Learning - by Rae Pica (Mixed Media Product)

About the Book

A physical education curriculum for everyone who works with preschoolers and kindergarteners and understands the critical role of movement.

Book Synopsis

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

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 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.