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.