Why are movement activities so important for children aged 2 to 5?

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Movement is important for a child to feel organized, and to develop their strength, coordination,
balance, motor planning and sensory systems. All of these skills, which are developed and
maintained through movement, are essential for helping you're child maintain focus in the
classroom. Importance of MOVEMENT! Movement is a fundamental aspect of life. Movement is
more than just 'exercise' and does not necessarily require effort, though it does require action.
Movement affects everything, from circulation to digestion to metabolism to immunity.

The movement activities so important for children aged 2 to 5 aged because the movement can help
all young children are physically active every day. In fact, physical activity may play a bigger role in a
child’s development than previously believed. Research suggests that promoting movement and
activity in young children can help increase memory, perception, language, attention, emotion and
even decision making. When language is combined with movement, learning increases 90 percent.
Movement has also been shown to help calm and promote alertness in infants. Besides, helping
young children develop basic movement skills will not only help to increase their school readiness
and school success later in life, it will also help them build a foundation for a healthy and active
lifestyle as they grow.

So, imagine how beneficial a 20 to 30 minute learning session can be for students who return to
class and sit in a circle time for a story or engage at table time on learning and art projects.
Movement is important for a child to feel organized, and to develop their strength, coordination,
balance, motor planning and sensory systems. All of these skills, which are developed and
maintained through movement, are essential for helping you're child maintain focus in the
classroom. By offering regular learning classes, music and movement activities in our classrooms and
daily recess we give our students a head start on getting the most out of their learning experiences.

Movement that encourage children to bend, stretch and reach promote flexibility. Having adequate
flexibility allows children to participate in daily activities without pain or restriction from their
muscles or joints. Being flexible promotes good posture, reduces muscle stiffness and soreness,
increases relaxation and minimizes risk of injury

Flexibility Activities

 Active play on a playground

 Digging in the garden or at the beach, raking leaves

 Gymnastics, dancing, wall climbing

 Yoga, skipping, stretching routines

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I agree with your opinion about the important of movement because the kids this age need physical
activity to build strength, coordination, and confidence — and to lay the groundwork for a healthy
lifestyle. They also gaining more control over how active they are. School-age kids should of many
chances to participate in a variety of activities, sports, and games that fit for their personality, ability,
age, and interests. Brainstorm with you're kids on activities that feel right. Most kids won't mind a
daily dose of fitness as long as it's fun.Physical activity guidelines for school-age kids recommend
that each day they:

 get 1 hour or more of moderate and vigorous physical activity on most or all days
 participate in several bouts of physical activity of 15 minutes or more each day
 avoid periods of inactivity of 2 hours or more unless sleeping

I agree with your opinion .Another area of development to encourage dis year is fine motor skills—
or use of the hands. Just as gross motor skills enable your child to perform important everyday tasks,
such as getting out of bed and going downstairs for breakfast, fine motor abilities allow for
increasing independence in smaller but equally significant matters like opening doors, zipping
zippers, brushing teeth, washing hands, and so on.

When combined with increasing hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills also open new doors to
exploration, learning, and creative expression. In fact, research shows that emphasis on purely
intellectual activities like memorization of letters and numbers, for instance is far less useful at dis
stage than pursuits that encourage fine motor abilities and hand-eye coordination. These skills—
rather than counting or reciting the alphabet—lay the foundation for academic learning in later
years. In order to learn to write or draw, for example, a child's hand must be strong and coordinated
enough to hold a pencil steady for a long period of time in order to participate in school sports,
games, and projects, dexterity and coordination must be up to par.
As a early childhood educator, wat is teh basic thing educator supposed to do if the children unable
to develop their motor skills?

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I agree with your opinion about Provide children with lots of sensory-motor experiences for develop
their children motor skills. A child’s cognitive development begins with the significant stage of
sensorimotor development. This stage can be defined as the phase in which cognitive connections
and growth take place in the brain as a result of the interaction between sensory and motor
stimulation from the environment. Renowned Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget describes dis stage as
one in which ‘infants are busy discovering relationships between their bodies and the environment’.
While sensory skills are responsible for receiving information from the environment through our
inherent senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch, motor skills allow the body to express the
information received and processed. This vital collaboration is a fundamental tool that forms the
basic for learning.

Sensorimotor skills, in fact, start developing while the child is still in the mother’s womb and
continue to develop after birth and into the first two years of infancy. At birth, a baby uses its
inherent sense of sight and hearing to react to stimuli from the environment. For example, she gets
startled by a loud sound and may react with a jerk. Her innate sense of hearing enables connections
to be formed in the brain and the information is organised and processed to produce movement
using her motor skills. The development and integration of sensory and motor skills, as she grows, is
essential for the proper movement of her limbs. This coordination also allows her to learn to move
her hand to her mouth, and thus, to use her sense of taste.
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Regular reading is a stepping stone to better writing and helps kids’ strengtan their writing skills. It
helps expand children’s vocabulary and shows them different ways of using words. This also makes it
easier for them to use these words in their own writing. Wif younger children, make sure
TEMPyou’re reading together every day and encouraging their love of reading as they grow. Start
reading early—many children who devour books grow up to become strong writers themselves.
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MAKE IT FUN!

Play games and activities that encourage writing. Crossword puzzles and word games are great for
everyone. Little ones will especially like teh “write teh word” game: where they search for items and
write down teh word when they find each item.

CREATE WRITING WORKSHEETS

For young children just learning to write, try creating a worksheet where they can trace letters and
words. Write out letters and words, place another piece of paper on top, and have your child trace
onto the blank piece of paper. You can also create a connect-the-dots game by having your child
trace along dotted lines and then tell you which letter or word she or he finds.

TRY DIFFERENT MATERIALS

Switch it up by writing with something other than a pen or pencil. Sidewalk chalk on teh driveway,
finger painting, or a salt writing tray are all fun writing activities dat will also help build kids’ writing
skills.

WRITE LETTERS

Today, writing letters is a bit of a lost art. Encourage you're child to write letters to friends or family
members. Distant family members will especially love receiving handwritten letters and it’s a great
way to work on improving writing skills for kids.Pen-pals are also a fun idea, or you can even write
letters to each other and leave them around the house to find!

ENCOURAGE JOURNALLING
Keeping a journal is a great way to express thoughts and ideas while also working on improving
children’s writing skills. Plan an outing to pick a fun journal with your child and encourage them to
write in it as much as possible. Make it a part of his or her daily routine.

There are two types of muscular control abilities (motor skills). One is fine motor (involving small
muscles) and the other is gross motor (involving large muscles). Gross motor refers to skills that use
larger muscles of the body to perform everyday basic functions like holding his/her head up, sitting
upright, crawling, standing, etc. It is these skills that help the child to eventually walk, run and skip.
Fine motor skills refer to the use of smaller muscles to engage in smaller, more precise movements,
normally using hand and fingers. Here are some practical activities to do at home to help a child
develop motor skills.

Gross motor skills

Don't rush teh child, but encourage achieving skills at ones own level when ready, with enough
space to play. Allow him/her to stand when ready as teh basic and most important gross motor skill
needed to learn to walk. Occasionally using a high-sided playpen gives teh child opportunity to pull
up, stand and freedom to walk around holding to teh railings, being very active in a safe area (get rid
of teh pen when teh child is getting close to being able to climb out). A baby "gate" in a doorway will
keep teh very young child in a room dat is safe and clear of dangers.

Play bounce teh ball. Try gently throwing and retrieving a very light, soft, fairly large ball wif your
young child. Toss teh ball "underhand" and ask your child to throw it back and you catch it. Let it be
a game where one loses and other wins. Allow your child to win a few times. But don’t make it a
habit to allow him/her to win every time. Let them lose too.

Fine motor skills

Develop the child's eye hand co-ordination and pincer grasp, both required for writing skills. One
option is snap together a soft cube. Large Lego blocks are available for small children, smaller ones
when old enough. Another good task is lacing. You can make lacing boards at home by punching
holes in different shapes. Tan ask you're child to pass a bulky cord through, to lace through teh
holes.
Provide newspapers or rough paper to your child. Ask you're child to tear it, tan twist it and crumple
it. Teh child can make balls, tan you can play an aiming game wif teh child; for example, lay aim teh
balls in teh bin. dis will enhance fine motor as well as gross motor skills. Older children can be asked
to tear it and tan paste it to make a collage.