Essential Gross Motor Activities. Increasing gross motor ability helps a child gain strength and confidence in their body. Mastering these skills helps a child's ability to perform more complex skills in future activities, such as dribbling a ball while traveling or returning a tennis serve.
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Basic ways to move from one place to another; they are the building blocks of coordination. Walk, run, gallop, jump, hop, side-slide, leap and skip.
The ability to conceive, plan, and carry out a skilled, non-habitual motor act in the correct sequence from beginning to end. Incoming sensory stimuli must be correctly integrated in order to form the basis for appropriate, coordinated motor responses.
Common exercises and yoga movements done in class to support imitation of movement.
The ability to stay upright or stay in control of body movement, and coordination is the ability to move two or more body parts under control, smoothly and efficiently. Static balance is maintaining equilibrium when stationary, while dynamic balance is maintaining equilibrium when moving.
Complex motor skill that involves the entire body in a series of linked movements starting from the legs, progressing up through the pelvis and trunk, and culminating in a ballistic motion in the arm that propels a projectile forward.
Basic manipulative skill in which you swing your arm back then forward without raising your arm above your shoulder to project an object forward.
Skill where after release, a ball rolls smoothly on the ground; commonly used in games such as bowling, bocce and lawn bowling.
Fundamental object manipulation skill using the foot to propel an object from one area to another.
Basic children's games, often played between children or between a parent and child, wherein the participants throw a ball, beanbag, flying disc or similar object back and forth to each other.
Bouncing the ball on the floor continuously with one hand at a time.
Other Movement Skills
Other Movement Skills
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Participation / Behavior
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Summer Physical Activity Ideas
Summer Physical Activity Ideas
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