16 Months - 3 Year Old Program
ages taken as of January 1st
(45 minute parent assisted lesson)
AIM: To provide a stimulating physical environment in order to enhance overall motor development.
Lessons are designed to encourage the child’s development in a variety of areas including:
- Gross and Fine Motor Skills
- Spatial Awareness
- Visual & Auditory Skills
- Eye-Hand/Foot Co-ordination
- Balance
The above areas are developed each lesson (through the use of)
- Free Play - time for the child to explore the environment, to create his/her own idea of how to use the equipment, socialization with peers and their carer and learning/practicing the skill of sharing and taking turns.
- Exercises - mobilization of body parts, enhance muscle tone, develop understanding of directions and interpreting them.
- Activity Time 1 - may include the following activities – tumbling skills, animal walks, eye-hand co-ordination, a fun activity with parent/carer.
- Dance - a gross motor activity where children can jump, skip, hop and stimulate the vestibular system (a part of the brain which enhances balance and co-ordination) by the parent swinging the child.
- Activity Time 2 - this is specifically used to develop a child’s skill level with a particular piece of apparatus eg. bat and ball, bean bag. It will involve eye-hand co-ordination, gross motor, muscle tone and balance.
- Climbing - enhances muscle tone and strength, balance, spatial and body awareness, gross motor, concepts and how to climb safely.
- Sticks - development of the fine motor skills, body awareness, eye-hand co-ordination, following directions (both visual and auditory), rhythm.
- Parachute - a fun time for carer and child to come together with balloons or lizards and songs to complete the lesson.
