EC4 during Music and Movement Class

EC4 during Music and Movement Class

EC4 students were engaged in different activities. They have been practicing basic fundamental movement skills, while they were developing understanding of our agreements and expectations in music and movement class.

What are Fundamental Movement Skills?

“FMS are movement patterns that involve different body parts such as the legs, arms, trunk and head, and include such skills as running, hopping, catching, throwing and balancing. They are the foundation movements necessary for 3–8-year-old children as a precursor to the more specialized, complex skills used in play, games, sports, dance, gymnastics, outdoor education and physical recreation activities.”

Fundamental Movement Skills

1.     Balance

2.     Jump

3.     Locomotor Skills

Some Movement Skills practice :

“Gross motor skills involve the use of the large muscles in the arms, legs and torso during 

movement. Using the large muscles, children are able to perform the fundamental movement skills comprising locomotor, non-locomotor and manipulative skills”

EC4 students develop their gross motor skills in Music and Movement class. They practiced manipulative skills that involve handling and controlling objects with their hand and locomotor skills that are the foundations of movements needed to perform a variety of physical activities. They are the building blocks of coordination. EC4 students were traveling to one place to another in different ways such as frog jump, walk, bunny hop, bear walk and crab crawl (Animals Move)

Animals Move!

Students were balancing the beanbag in different body parts

Children will move on different pathways using different movement skills to gain 

a better control of their movements.