Successful Movement Challenges: Movement Activities for the Developing Child - Softcover

Capon, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1495946126 ISBN 13: 9781495946127

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1981

Synopsis

A book of extensive and exciting movement activities for the developming child in preschool, elementary, and special education. Included are movement exploration challenges using parachutes, balls, hoops, ropes, bean bags, rhythm sticks, scarves, and many other equipment items. Physical fitness development activities including body conditioning, mat activities, circuit training, and playground apparatus activities are also featured within this popular publication. Your children will thoroughly enjoy the creative and carefully designed movement experiences contained in this book. An excellent resource guide for both classroom and plysical education teachers.

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From the Publisher

This activity guidebook is for those of you who would rather design your own Movement/Perceptual-Motor Program by integrating different types of tasks that you've chosen from a thoroughly developed wide selection of fun activities. Your preschool, elementary and Special Ed students will enjoy challenges for Body Image, Creative Movement, Walking Boards, Stilts, and on and on!

About the Author

Jack Capon was known nationally and internationally for his practical application of Movement Education to the classroom environment. By means of his numerous workshops that he conducted throughout the world, Jack Capon has shown how teachers and others interested in Movement Education can start their own successful programs. Jack Capon was active in Movement Education from the early 1960's right on up to the mid 1990's when, by an ironic twist of fate, he was forced into early retirement by the onslaught of a rare neurological disorder called Striatonigral Degeneration. After several years of deteriorating health, Jack passed away in the summer of 1999 soon after the publication of the newest edition of his Perceptual-Motor Lesson Plans, Level-2 book. Jack Capon was not only a great Movement Educator, but a great human being as well, as witnessed by his 25 years of volunteering to direct the Special Olympics Program for his local town of Alameda, California. Although Jack is no longer here with his energy and enthusiasm for Movement Education, his Perceptual-Motor Development Programs lives on and continues to provide valuable help in developing the movement coordination skills necessary for the healthy development of children everywhere. Jack Capon, by means of his numerous workshops that he conducted throughout the world, has shown how teachers and others interested in Movement Education can start their own successful programs. It's been told that the original founder of the nationwide and now worldwide chain of Gymboree fitness centers for kids got her inspiration and many of her ideas from observing Jack Capon's programs in action and in attending many of his early workshops. The fact that you can start a business using Jack Capon-like activities for kids is further testament to the obvious that his programs do work and give a valuable boost to the development of any child in the early childhood years.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 1495946126
• ISBN 13: 9781495946127
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 136
• Editor: Alexander Frank