Movement-PreK-2

Acquire movement skills and understand concepts needed to engage in health-enhancing physical activity.

Demonstrate physical competency in individual and team sports, creative movement and leisure and work-related activities. Because God made all human beings in His image, promote this likeness by demonstrating physical competency in individual and team sports emphasizing ethics and fair play.

Analyze various movement concepts and applications. Analyze various movement concepts and apply with Christian values.

Demonstrate knowledge of rules, safety and strategies during physical activity. Understand how order promotes Christian community by demonstrating knowledge of rules, safety and strategies in a compassionate and cooperative way.

Demonstrate control when performing fundamental locomotor, non-locomotor and manipulative skills.

Understand spatial awareness and relationships to objects and people.

Use locomotor movements as seen in lead up games (e.g., walking, hopping, jumping, skipping, galloping, running, leaping).

Use non-locomotor movement.

Understand terms of locomotor and nonlocomotor movements.

Demonstrate skills through activities that develop eye hand coordination/eye foot coordination using a variety of equipment (e.g., juggling scarves, bowling, ball catching, bean bags).

Display respect for self and others as a child of God.

Demonstrate safe movement in physical activities.

Identify personal space.

Mimic animal walks.

Distinguish movements (understanding of prepositions): behind, ahead of, next to, near to, over, under, on, through, beside. 

Practice circuit training with catch balls, koosh balls, paddles in different activity areas.

Play tag (e.g., everyone is it, aquatics*).

Love themselves as children of God by recognizing and maintaining personal space during game play and activities.

Understand and demonstrate safety rules. Tagging safety (concept of force). Knowing physical boundaries (e.g., safe distances from obstacles, using turn around points). Knowledge and understanding of the rationale for strategies, safety rules and why. Aquatics.

Recognize others as children of God by demonstrating respect while playing in a safe manner.