Kindergarten

Motor Skills

Movement Concepts

Health-Related Fitness

Personal/Social Responsibility

Demonstrate motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities. 

Demonstrate understanding of concepts that apply to the learning and performance of movement. 

Demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to achieve a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness. 

Demonstrate responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others. 

Demonstrate recognizable forms of the locomotor skills (walk, run, jump, hop, skip, gallop, leap, slide).

Demonstrate recognizable forms of manipulative skills (throwing, catching, dribbling, passing, volleying, striking, and kicking).

Demonstrate transitions between locomotor skills with recognizable forms. 

Demonstrate rhythmic locomotor and non-locomotor movements to a beat. 

Demonstrate understanding of the movement concepts of space, pathways, and speed through movement. 

Identify one or more of the critical elements for fundamental manipulative skills (throwing, catching, dribbling, passing, volleying, striking, and kicking). 

Use teacher feedback to improve basic motor performance. 

Identify one or more of the five health-related fitness components (cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, or body composition) and their associated exercises. 

Identify opportunities for increased physical activity. 

Actively participate in physical education class. 

Demonstrate cooperation by following directions in group settings. 

Identify physical activities that are personally enjoyable. 

Demonstrate safe practices when engaging in physical activities with minimal teacher reminders.