The emphasis is on how students move in their environment. Students learn fundamental locomotor (running, hopping, skipping, jumping, leading, sliding, galloping), nonlocomotor (bending, twisting, turning, rocking, swaying, balancing, stretching, pushing, and pulling), and manipulative (rolling, throwing, catching, bouncing, kicking) skills. Students participate in a wide variety of activities that involve locomotor, nonlocomotor and manipulative skills, fitness concepts and fitness development exercises. Students participate in a variety of movement activities leading to experiences of personal feelings of success.
