Locomotor

I will be using the skill theme approach in a preschool class over the next few weeks. I would like to have a better idea of what developmental level the students are at since I have not worked with preschoolers thus far. What developmental issues/problems/difficulties are common with preschool that I can focus on early that will help in teaching other skills later.

Any locomotor pre-assessments for preschoolers you could point me towards may help as well.

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Permalink Reply by Gaetano J. Amato on August 7, 2011 at 3:48pm
Hi Rebecca.  Pre-school children do not need a structured lesson.  Much better to set up areas with small apparatus or playground equipment or equipment such as balls, hoop, ropes etc., and let them explore and enhance their own motor development/planning.  You just need to focus on safety issues.  If you give them a structured task, it should be open ended and not direct, so that they can solve the task in their own way.  For example, it would not be a good thing to tell everyone to skip.  Most probably cannot.  Better to discuss with them the meaning of the word travel and ask them to find some different ways to travel on their feet.  They will walk, jump, hope etc., and you can have them repeat the task using a different way of traveling.  You give them the what and they chose the how.  Classroom management may be the biggest problem, but as long as they have choices, they are usually okay.  Hope this helps, G......
Permalink Reply by Howie Weiss on August 22, 2011 at 7:09am

Check out pre-k physical education primer from my web site. You may find it useful.

 

http://weissice.com/pk.htm

Permalink Reply by Jacob Olson on February 7, 2012 at 7:59pm

The approach at the preschool level should be rolling, jumping, landing, left, transfering weight, chasing, fleeing, dodging, and balancing. Each of these skills can be done in some sort of tag variation. Problems that could arise would be keeping kids in order, lack of understanding, also a wide range of skills will be appearant. Make sure to lay out every single rule you can so that students are well in order. Also, to find more information a website call PE-Central.com is a great tool.

Good Luck Rebecca

Permalink Reply by Kristen Koontz on February 29, 2012 at 10:56pm

Rebecca,

The good thing about teaching younger students is that they will have fun with just about anything. If you are still interested in making a theme with loco motor movement, you can play silly games. A silly game could be simply tell your students to act like a zoo animal. You would call out a cheetah and allow your students to run freely around the gym. This will allow them to gain knowledge about the different movements along with zoo animals. I hope this helps!

Permalink Reply by Jayme Ryan on March 4, 2012 at 3:25pm

What everyone else said is right- this age of kids love to have fun!  When working with my preschool kids at a daycare in the gym area, the hardest thing is classroom management and keeping them all on the same page due to their different levels of development (ages 3-5ish).  To see what development level you're dealing with, have them do something simple like a race (animal races, also) just to see how the children move and how enthused they are.  Different activities like this will show where they are at, and every child is different.  As far as games go, I have found that the less rules there are, the better.  The kids have a hard time remembering everything and it just turns out stressful.  Good luck!

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