1 As part of their physical development children need to develop confidence in movement.
* Encourage confident children to extend their experience of movement, and the less confident to build on previous achievements. Make it a total experience, by moving quickly, slowly, heavily or lightly, pretend to be big and small, tall and short. Plan to accommodate all the children at their individual levels.
* Communicate movements verbally and non-verbally to increase children's body awareness and vocabulary. Cross reference to C11 and C15.
2 Activities need to be lively and interesting enough to encourage children to participate.
* Use a variety of learning aids to stimulate hearing, touch and sight. For example, use tape recordings of music, songs and sounds; home-made or multi-cultural musical instruments; singing; pictures; hoops, ribbons or other lightweight fabrics.
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