St. Mary's Lab 1

Click the link to check out my Lab 1 !

New Blogging Experience

I am a first time blogger, but I  feel like I am learning fast and it already seems like a great, fun, and efficient way to connect and learn from the people I need to!  great teaching method!

Sumarizing Fundemental Skill Development and Assessment

In reference to the text, fundamental movement skill is divided into three categories (stability, locomotor, or manipulative) and is an organized series of basic movements that involve the combinations of movement patterns with two or more body segments.  Examples of these skills would be jumping and throwing, running and rolling, and twisting and turning.  

“Children who have mastered these skills [fundamental movement skills] are ready to begin the exciting process of developing specialized skills and applying them to a wide variety of game, sport, dance, and recreational activities for a lifetime of vigorous movement.”  According to a journal entry on AAHPERD titled Top 10 Reasons for Quality Physical Education fundamental movement skills and proper assessment by teachers is important because they are associated directly with higher levels of physical activities.  Meaning that if a child is taught at a young age these fundamentals, than he/she will most likely live a physical-activity-oriented lifestyle.  The benefits of this is endless:  regular physical activity promotes lifetime wellness, helps prevent disease, helps fight obesity, teaches self-management, and much more…

links to images:

http://www.realmendriveminivans.com/get-in-the-game-youth-athletics/

http://earlylearningsportacademy.weebly.com/canada-sport-for-life.html

Check out this documentary on teaching Badminton in Malaysia

http://documentaryheaven.com/shuttle/