Early Childhood - Connecticut State Department of Education

Aesthetic & Physical Development Chapter 9
• Incorporate culturally diverse materials, and
encourage families to contribute items from
home that may be interesting additions to
the collage area.
• Model and encourage experimenting with
materials and various media. Encourage
children to realize that mistakes are OK
Connecticut’s Preschool Curriculum
Framework Performance Standards
Preschool programs will provide children with
opportunities to:
• demonstrate competence in a variety of activities
that require coordinated movement using large
muscles;
• perform activities that combine large-muscle
movements with equipment;
• combine a sequence of several motor skills in an
organized way;
• choose to engage in physical activity that is child-
selected or teacher-initiated;
• perform fine-motor tasks that require small-muscle
strength and control;
• use eye-hand coordination to successfully perform
fine-motor tasks;
• show beginning control of writing, drawing and
art tools;
• move through an environment with body control;
and
• demonstrate spatial awareness in fine-motor
activities.
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and trial and error is common when one is
creating.
• Save children’s artwork as important windows
into their growth and development.
• Most importantly, emphasize that process is
more important than product.
The Connecticut K-12 Physical Education
Framework Content Standards
As a result of education in Grades K-12, students
will:
• physical activity – become competent in a variety
of, and proficient in a few, physical activities;
• human movement – understand and apply
principles of human movement to the learning
and development of motor skills;
• fitness – use fitness concepts to achieve and
maintain health-enhancing levels of physical
fitness;
• responsible behavior – exhibit responsible
personal and social behaviors in physical
activity settings;
• respect for differences – exhibit an understanding
of and respect for differences among people in
physical activity settings; and
• benefits of physical activity – identify and
understand how physical activity provides
personal enjoyment, challenge, self-expression
and social interaction.