Toddlers Moving and Learning (eBook)

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.

Table of ContentsActivity Chart Curriculum Connectors ChartSong List Preface Introduction Benefits of Moving & Learning Implementing the Program Toddlers: Developmental Considerations Lesson 1 Heads, Bellies, Toes Let’s Stretch Let’s Walk Exploring Up and Down Lesson 2 Show Me Let’s Bend Let’s Run Exploring Straight and Round Lesson 3 Flexing/Pointing Feet Let’s Shake Let’s Jump Shapes in Motion Lesson 4 “Where Is Thumbkin?” Let’s Sway Tiny Steps/Giant Steps Being Balloons Lesson 5 “Open & Close” Let’s Turn Let’s Gallop “Pop Goes the Weasel” Lesson 6 “The Wash Song” Bending and Stretching Let’s Creep “Moving Slow/Moving Fast” Lesson 7 See My Hands Let’s Strike Let’s Roll “The Bumblebee” Lesson 8 See My Feet Let’s Push and Pull “Marching Band” Moving Backward Lesson 9 See My Face The Tightrope Follow the Leader “Marching Slow/Marching Fast” Lesson 10 Mirror Game Let’s Lift Moving Like the Animals “Slow-Motion Moving” Lesson 11 Simon Says Let’s Balance Let’s Tiptoe “The Tiptoe Song” Lesson 12 “The Body Song” Shake, Wiggle, and Vibrate Let’s Jump Again “Moving Softly/Moving Loudly” Lesson 13 Body-Part Balance “High & Low” Let’s Crawl “Robots & Astronauts” Lesson 14 Traveling Body Parts “In My Space” Follow the Leader “Common Meters” References Additional Resources