Being active and body awareness
Young children need lots of opportunity to be physically active, especially through play involving running and jumping, pushing and pulling, lifting and carrying, throwing, stretching and hanging. These experiences give a sense of well-being, develop vital body awareness and contribute to the child's growing feelings of who they are.
Resources
* wheeled vehicles * carts * wheelbarrows * pushchairs * chalk *stepping stones * crates * logs * small tyres * wooden * planks and blocks * pulleys * buckets * bags and baskets 3brooms 3spades 3rakes 3long and short ropes * bubbles * feathers * leaves * ribbons * bells * scarves * CDs of lively music * balls *beanbags * quoits * hoops * small parachute * Five Little Monkeys (action rhymes) by Zita Newcome (Walker Books) * Bumpus jumpus dinosaurumpus! by Tony Mitton and Guy Parker-Rees (Orchard Books)
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