Rae Pica 
Preschoolers and Kindergartners Moving and Learning [EPUB ebook] 
A Physical Education Curriculum

Table of Contents

Activity Chart

Curriculum Connectors Chart

Song List

Preface

Introduction

Benefits of Moving & Learning

Implementing the Program

Preschoolers and Kindergartners: Developmental Considerations

Lesson 1

Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

Let’s Bend

Let’s Walk

Exploring Up and Down

Lesson 2

Show Me

Let’s Stretch

“Walking Along Again”

Big and Little

Lesson 3

My Fingers

Bending and Stretching

Let’s Run

Bridges and Tunnels

Lesson 4

See My Hands

Let’s Shake

Creepy-Crawly

Making Shapes

Lesson 5

See My Face

Let’s Sway

Let’s Jump

“Pop Goes the Weasel”

Lesson 6

Simon Says

Let’s Bounce

“Rabbits and ’Roos”

Moving Backward

Lesson 7

“The Body Song”

Exploring Bending and Stretching

Moving Like Animals

“Moving Slow/Moving Fast”

Lesson 8

Mirror Game

Let’s Turn

“Marching Band”

Exploring Body and Spatial Directions

Lesson 9

“Hands-Hands-Hands”

Let’s Sit

Let’s Leap

“Moving Softly/Moving Loudly”

Lesson 10

“A Face Has Many Roles in Life”

Let’s Push and Pull

Let’s Gallop

“Marching Slow/Marching Fast”

Lesson 11

Switcheroo!

Let’s Strike

Follow the Leader

“High & Low”

Lesson 12

Body-Part Relationships

Let’s Lift

Shadow Game

“Robots & Astronauts”

Lesson 13

Traveling Body Parts

Let’s Swing

“Locomotion I”

Exploring Force

Lesson 14

Exploring Right and Left

Let’s Twist

The Tightrope

Exploring Movement Elements

Lesson 15

Exploring Weight Placement

In My Own Space

Let’s Hop

“Staccato/Legato”

Lesson 16

Counting Body Parts

Imitating Movement

Let’s Roll

“Getting Fast/Getting Slow”

Lesson 17

Arms in Motion

Let’s Focus

Let’s Slide

“Getting Louder/Getting Softer”

Lesson 18

Legs in Motion

Pass a Movement

Let’s Skip

“Common Meters”

Lesson 19

Body Halves Opposition

Dodging in Place

“Locomotion II”

“Different Strokes”

Lesson 20

Left Side/Right Side

Combining Nonlocomotor Skills

Combining Locomotor Skills

“Exploring Space”

References

Additional Resources

Rae Pica: Rae Pica has been an early childhood education consultant, specializing in children’s physical activity, since 1980. She is cofounder of the BAM! Radio Network, the world’s largest online education radio network, and host of Educators Radio programs
Body, Mind, and Child and
Teacher’s Aid, for which she interviews experts in education, child development, play research, the neurosciences, and more, on a wide variety of topics. Rae is the founder and director of Moving and Learning, a company offering services and materials related to physical activity for children from birth to age eight. A former adjunct instructor with the University of New Hampshire, she is the author of many books for early childhood professionals and parents. Rae has shared her expertise with such groups as the
Sesame Street Research Department, the Head Start Bureau, Centers for Disease Control, the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Nickelodeon’s
Blue’s Clues, Gymboree, and state health departments throughout the country. Rae also served on the task force of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) that created national guidelines for early childhood physical activity, is a member of several advisory boards, and serves on the executive committee of the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences International.