Mrs. Miller

Physical Education/Educacion Fisica

• Learn direction in movement.

• Begin to manipulate objects with purposeful movement.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

• Increase heart rate.

• Feel the joy that results from having the ability and freedom of

exploration, discovery, and expression through movement.

• Learn to move at varying speeds.

• Learn basic eye-hand, eye-foot manipulative skills, e.g., toss underhand,

bounce with two hands, retrieve, stationary kick and strike objects that

are safe, with the hand.

• Learn to recognize how long it takes to move from one place to

another and how long it takes an object to travel from one place to

another, e.g., locomotor activities include hopping and galloping on the

non-preferred foot, marching, sliding, and performing other patterns

according to specific rhythms.

• Learn non-locomotor activities including symmetrical and asymmetrical

balances, lifting and carrying, starting and stopping, swinging, swaying,

curling and stationary dodging.

• Learn the biomechanical principle of dynamic stability, that is, that

balance is inherent in all movement and that it can be increased

through static stability by widening their base of support and lowering

their center of gravity.

• Learn simple dances in columns and circles with partners.

• Learn about the body’s need for oxygen and food as fuel to supply the

body with energy.

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