Health & Physical

1. Understand and care for physical well being.
2. Develop small and gross motor skills
3. Use the senses

Standards:

1. self care routines
2. safety rules and directions
3. components of healthy lifestyles, including nutrition, exercise, rest and the role of health care providers
4. use of multi-sensory abilities to process information
5. strength, control, balance, coordination, locomotion, and endurance
6. hand-eye coordination, strength, control and object manipulation
7. use of the senses to take in, experience, integrate and regulate responses to their environment

Skill Areas:

1. Walking, climbing, running, jumping, hopping, galloping, marching, throwing, kicking, catching, balancing,
2. Drawing a person with recognizable parts
3. Copying simple shapes and using scissors to cut simple shapes
4. Using manipulatives in a variety of activities to improve eye-hand coordination
5. Changing the shape and arrangement of objects by flattening, rolling, stretching, stacking and folding
6. Developing strength and dexterity needed to use tools such as paper punch, hammer, scissors, tweezers and writing and art tools.
7. Identifying main body parts
8. Following directions
9. Using the bathroom
10. Dressing self
11. Washing and drying hands
12. Taking turns
13. Tying shoes
14. Printing numerals and alphabet
15. Caring for his/her teeth
16. Describing how to keep from getting hurt
17. Identifying healthy and unhealthy foods
18. Knowing how to get help and 911
19. Expressing feelings

Core Concepts:

• Health, safety and nutrition
• Fine motor control (small-muscle movement
• – manipulation of materials and tools, hand dominance, eye-hand coordination)
• Gross motor control (large-muscle movement – balance coordination, purposeful control, locomotion, stability of body movements and functions)
• Sensory motor control (take information from senses to inform muscle response – self-regulating skills)

Instructional Activity Suggestions:

Recommended Points of Assessment: