C1. Movement Skills and Concepts
Specific Expectations
Stability
C1.1
perform a variety of static balances, using different body parts at different levels (e.g., low level: crouch with weight balanced on hands and feet; medium level: stand and lean forward with arms outstretched; high level: stretch tall with arms overhead and legs wide apart) [A1.3 Motivation, 1.5 Self]
- Teacher prompt: “See if you can make different shapes with your body while you balance your weight on different body parts. Can you balance at a low level? Can you balance while stretching up high? How many different shapes can you make with your body when you are balancing on three body parts?”
Locomotion
C1.2
demonstrate the ability to move and stop safely and in control, with an awareness of people and equipment around them [A1.2 Coping, 1.4 Relationships]
- Teacher prompt: “Find your own spot where you cannot touch anyone or anything, even when you stretch out your arms. When the music starts, skip or gallop to the music. When the music stops, stop moving and freeze in place as quickly as you can. Stay on your feet and check your spot. Are you still in your own space where you cannot touch anyone or anything?”
C1.3
perform a variety of locomotor movements, travelling in different directions and using different body parts (e.g., jump over lines; walk carefully backwards along a line while looking over their shoulder; move forward with different body parts touching the ground; move arms in different ways while walking, dancing, or skipping; take giant steps while moving sideways) [A1.5 Self]
- Teacher prompt: “Each time the music changes, change the way you are moving. Can you run or wheel your wheelchair in a big circle? Straight lines? Zigzags? Can you travel forward? Sideways? Can you skip? Hop? Run? Crawl? Can you make up a new way of moving?”
- Students: “Look how I can pull my body along the floor with my arms to move like a seal.” “I am using my arms to make big circles while I jump over all the lines in the gym.” “I can slide sideways taking big steps.”
Manipulation
C1.4
send objects of different shapes and sizes at different levels and in different ways, using different body parts (e.g., roll a ball along a line, throw a rubber chicken underhand to a chosen spot, kick a ball to a specific area, toss or drop a beanbag into a hula hoop, pass a sponge ball over their head to the next person in a short line who passes it between his or her legs to the next person) [A1.5 Self]
- Teacher prompt: “Which body parts (hand, foot, elbow) can you use to send the ball forward?”
C1.5
receive objects of different shapes and sizes at different levels and in different ways, using different body parts (e.g., catch or trap a ball with two hands, catch a beanbag that they toss themselves or that a partner tosses to them, stop a rolling ball with hands or feet) [A1.1 Emotions, 1.5 Self]
- Teacher prompt: “When you get ready to catch, put your arms out with your hands up and your fingers spread wide. When you catch or trap an object, pull it in to your body as you grab it to help cushion it.”