Week 5 Assignment 2
Week 5 Assignment 2-Course Project:
Creating a Child Health, Safety, and Nutrition Blog
Marilyn Dorrough
EDUC-1005-1Child, Health, Safety and Nutrition
Walden University
April 5, 2012
Dr. Erin Eissler
Week 5 Assignment 2
Physical fitness is important while dealing with young children because it sets boundaries for good health in the future. Children learning how to be active at young ages enables them to continue practicing healthy habits while growing up; exercising aids in preventing some health conditions as well as over all good health.
· Physical fitness is important: Aids in preventing health problems
· Preventing and or controlling childhood obesity
· Build and maintain healthy bones and muscles
· Help children to grow and develop properly
· Enhances physical fitness and promotes active play
Children who are able to become physically active at young ages hopefully will curve the changes of being overweight in the future.
Development skills: Gross motor skills; free style dancing can help children develop their gross motor skills the more children move the more skills they tend to develop. Dunlap (2011) states “gross motor skills consist of jumping, running and other and other large movements”.
Gross motor skills are also evident when a child is playing on playground structures and are capable of hanging by both hands. Robertson (2007) states “hanging by both hands is an example of a gross motor skill that children normally master between the ages 2/ 3/1/2 years old
Fine motor skills: Invite the children to sculpt and mold clay or play dough to music. Payne and Isaacs (1987) defines fine motor skills as such “sewing, sculpting, drawing and playing most instruments. Movement precision plays an integral role in fine motor skills”.
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Children who experience lack of physical activities are prone to health issues such as obesity being over-weight as a child prevents children from being able to participate in some school activities being embarrassed among peers not capable of wearing certain clothing which in due time will eventually cause children to develop low-self-esteem. WebMD (2012) listed “most overweight children feel ashamed of their size and low self-esteem about their bodies does not help kids them make healthy choices”.
Adults must become proactive in helping children become healthy through being good role models exercising is fun if you make it fun. Bowling is a fun exercise that young children are capable of doing (bumper bowling) is offered at most bowling alleys children use both their gross and fine motor skill during bowling not to mention they really enjoy the sport.
Tic-Tac-Toe is a game most children enjoy and learn to play at a young age; make Tic-Tac-Toe board out of a piece of felt place it on the floor and let children throw bean bags until they get Tic-Tac-Toe. Children are using fine motor skill when throwing.
“Killing time gnawed at my spirit: If we could interview each and every child in that class, I would bet my life that every one of them would say that the best part of the day, perhaps the best part of the school year thus far, was that short precious period of singing and dancing together. Yet without malice or hurtful intentions and without conscious negativism, their teacher described the activity as “killing time”. In those minutes, so much happened and so many skills were called on: total participation and cooperation, freedom of expression, oral language, rhythm, small and gross motor skills, listening skills, learning patterns, verbal skills respecting the space of others, repetition, and most important enjoyment. Yet we call this Killing time”.
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References
Dunlap, B (2011) Livestrong.com: Fine and Gross Motor Skills Activities: Retrieved from
Google Website April 6, 2012
Payne and Isaacs (1987) What are Fine Motor Skills? Retrieved from Google Website
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Robertson, C (2007) Safety, Nutrition, and Health in Early Education 4th Edition: Retrieved
April 5, 2012 from Course Text Book pg. 422
WebMD (2012) Raising Fit Kids: Healthy, Nutrition, Exercise, and Weight: Retrieved from
Google Website April 6, 2012
As a teacher I am always looking for indoor activities that promote movement and exercise. The tic-tac toe activity is a great way to promote hand eye coordination for their target and fine motor skills when throwing as mentioned.
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