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Early Childhood Education and Care News
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February 18, 2020
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Kia ora, research shows many preschool aged children are failing to meet recommended physical activity guidelines, this week ideas to boost movement in your service. Also, six strategies for supporting successful transitions.
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Fun Ideas for Boosting Activity Levels
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Boosting physical activity levels for young children is high on the agenda as the Government rolls out the new Healthy Active Learning initiative. This program has been designed to promote and improve healthy eating and physical activity in schools, kura and early learning services across Aotearoa.
The increased focus on physical activity is in response to a growing body of evidence showing a drop in physical activity for children of all ages. This places children at a huge disadvantage moving forward as movement primes the brain for learning, fostering the neural pathways that form the foundations for cognitive (hinengaro), physical (tinana), emotional (whatumanawa) and spiritual (wairua) learning.
Research has also shown that habitual physical inactivity and sedentary behaviours in the early years can lead to poor health outcomes later in life.
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Six strategies to help children transition through their day
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In a typical day in their early childhood service children play, dance, paint, eat, sleep, read and in between – they transition.
In a single day, young children do a lot of transitions. It's the time, where under teacher direction, children move as a group between activities and routines and it can sometimes be very challenging.
The perfect vision of young children lined up like orderly little ducklings in a row as they move from one activity to another is a wonderful image but as all early childhood educators will testify, this is rarely the way it happens.
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