PHYSICAL EDUCATION FOR YOUNG CHILDREN

Young children more easily accept and enjoy lesson

• with immediate meaning

• if they enjoyable

Lesson plan includes:

• Planning for lessons

• Class name and Skill level

Children’s skills will improve if the

• lesson provide more practicing time

• related practice opportunities

Games are an important educational

___________ of the physical education program.

• tool

• games

• education

Low Level Games is

• Easy to play

• Involve an element of creative problem

Body awareness is

• a sense of what the body can do

• knowledge of where the body

  can move.

Relationship awareness is

• knowing how the body can move

• a sense of with whom and with what the body can move

Locomotor movements is

• bending, stretching, twisting, turning, pushing

• walking, running, jumping, skipping, hopping, sliding, rolling

Safety guidelines for environment:

• Physical education teacher should concern about the weather

• Routinely inventory the physical condition of the supplies, equipment and facilities

What is the purpose of physical education for young children?