Gross Motor Skills Game for Preschool age students in your Childcare or Daycare center.
“Move Like An Animal” is a fun gross motor skill activity (See Albany University site here for details) that provides the opportunity for children in your child care or daycare center to practice rebound activities and spatial relationships.
Teachers of preschool age children, whether in a Montessori school, a child care center, or a Daycare center should include age-appropriate activities that promote fitness and develop gross motor skills.
What are Gross Motor Skills that preschool age children should master?
Some important physical gross motor concepts and skills that young children learn to master are balance, spatial orientation (which means that the child is aware of the position of his or her body in space as well as in relation to other people and objects), laterality (which means that the child is aware of the left and right sides of the body), and the coordination of major muscles.
Children learn gross motor skills through practice. Activities which involve hopping, jumping, and climbing as well as games which involve catching and kicking balls are great examples of activities that promote the development of gross motor skills. What games or activities do you use to promote fitness in your childcare center?
