Information > Teachers/Co-ordinators > Fundamental Movement Skills (Formerly Active Movement) > Early Childhood Educators
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Early Childhood Educators Early Childhood Educators
Early Childhood Educators have the opportunity to provide environments that enable children to experience many different movement and sport skills. Active movement experiences can contribute to a healthy lifestyle for children. At Harbour Sport we believe that for children to enjoy lifelong participation in sport and recreation they need to develop and practice fundamental movement skills, the “building blocks” of Sport and Recreation.
Fundamental movement skills Active movement defines four fundamental movement skills – These are the building blocks for more complicated movements such as those required for playing sports, gymnastics, dancing etc. Locomotor - Is moving from one location to another. This can include running, hopping, jumping and crawling, dodging & skipping. Manipulative skills - include catching, throwing, kicking and hitting an object. These are the skills we need for moving balls and objects around on the sports field/court. Stability skills - enable us to balance whilst moving or staying still, this set of skills also includes landing, rolling, rotation and spinning Movement and body awareness - is the understanding of “what my body is like and how I move with it |
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