Perceptual-Motor Lesson Plans, Level 1 Preschool to First Grade - Softcover

Capon, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496037944 ISBN 13: 9781496037947

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1998

Synopsis

This book is an intensive beginning program of perceptual-motor activities for ALL your preschool to first grade students AND your special education classes. Like the Level-2 book, it is fully illustrated, covers a 25 week period, contains program background setup information, evaluation scale, performance objectives, equipment construction diagrams (or equipment sources, if you don't want to make your own), plus activities kids can do at home, and special Perception Games the teacher can use to go along with the programed activities, and especially helpful sample letters to parents and organizational forms and information in setting up your own Perceptual-Motor Program. Each week is made up of three activity stations and is sequenced according to difficulty. Activity pages can be easily cut out, laminated, and used as individual activity cards!

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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: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1496037944
• ISBN 13: 9781496037947
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Alexander Frank