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A complete movement curriculum for preschoolers and kindergartnersGive 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 curriculumAn explanation of the ways creative movement supports children’s physical, social/emotional, cognitive, and creative developmentTips 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 AAHPERDTwenty lesson plans with four 45-minute activities per plan—plus extensions and adaptations for children with special needsCurriculum Connectors that identify each activity’s correlation with content learning areasA CD filled with original music to add joy and energy to the activities .
About the Author
Rae Pica has been an education consultant (www.raepica.com) specializing in the education of the whole child, children's physical activity, and the mind/body connection since 1980. A former adjunct instructor with the University of New Hampshire, she is the author of 19 books, including the text Experiences in Movement and Music, in its 5th edition; the award-winning Great Games for Young Children and Jump into Literacy; and her most recent, What If Everybody Understood Child Development? : Straight Talk About Bettering Education and Children's Lives. Rae is known for her lively and informative keynotes and trainings and 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, Nike, and state health departments throughout the country. Rae has blogged for Huffington Post, is a member of the executive committee of the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences, and is co-founder of BAM Radio Network (www.bamradionetwork.com) , the world's largest online education radio network, where she currently hosts Studentcentricity, interviewing experts in education, child development, play research, the neurosciences, and more. Her YouTube channel, Active learning with rae, offers ideas for active learning experiences across the curriculum, as well as transition activities and classroom management tips. You can learn more about Rae at www.raepica.com.
