Chapter Two



This is a girl being taught how to use a lacrosse stick.



In chapter two, Childhood Growth and Motor Development it gave us as PE students the basic idea on when children start walking, running, jumping, hopping, galloping, skipping, reaching, grasping and releasing different equipment, etc.  Our main concentration for this chapter was to see if younger children in grades first and second are able to use equipment like hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks, field hockey sticks, etc.  Throughout the reading I believe that children this young can be introduced to using different equipment.  As long as the teacher is providing a safe environment for children to use the different equipment I see no problem with it.  Children need to be introduced to different activities at a young age, in order to have the knowledge and the ability to perform the sport.  This doesn't mean give a seven year old a lacrosse stick and let them go full force with the stick, you as a teacher have to guide them and allow them to understand the right way and the wrong way to use the lacrosse stick.  We as physical educators have to remember that their motor characteristics, cognitive characteristics, and their affective characteristics are all developing at a slow rate.  We have to allow for different activities to develop these needs that young children have to develop.  There are many different views on this subject, but I believe that allowing young children to use different equipment will allow for developing the motor, cognitive, and affective. 

These are Asda Athletes playing Field Hockey.
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Chapter One

Chapter one discusses how important it is for young children to be exercising daily, as the book mentions childhood obesity has been on the rise, along with in school violence among young children and finally because obesity mostly in females are beginning to hit puberty at an earlier age.  The chapter briefly describes the benefits of what physical education can do for the needs and interests of children that is based on the developmental level of the individual.  As a teacher there are many different "aims" we have to follow, learning-to-move, learning-through-movement, and most important being physically educated.  As a teacher we also have different goals and objectives, this is what helps us with the teaching of phys ed.  We too have to remember that children are all unique in their own ways; with that said you have to think of different ways to teach what it is their trying to get out of it.  There are many fundamental movement skills that we all use every single day.  They are listed as Locomotion, Manipulation, and Stability, in almost every sport these in some way are being used.  For locomotion; there is a basic (one element) and a combination (two or more elements), the basic would include; walking, jumping, running, hopping, leaping, a combination would include; climbing, galloping, sliding, skipping.  For Manipulation, their categorized as propulsive and absorptive.  Propulsive would include; ball rolling, throwing, kicking, punting, striking, volleying, bouncing.  Absorptive would include; catching, and trapping.  Finally Stability, this is categorized under Axial and Static and dynamic postures.  Axial would include; benching, stretching, twisting, turning, swinging.  Static and dynamic postures would include; upright balances, inverted balances, rolling, starting, stopping, dodging.  All of these can be intertwined to be involved in any sport.  One being dance; dance uses almost all of the locomotion categories, while gymnastics use mostly stability, you have to be able to balance in gymnastics and in other sports too but gymnastics is a big one.  Our typical sports use mostly manipulation.  There are many more scenarios than these, these are just the basics.  As the chapter comes to a conclusion the thing to remember is that physical activities of any sort will help you maintain a healthy life in the future.  Our goal is to try and decrease obesity and increase physical activity!!