For Parents
Physical Development and Health
The physical development and health
domain stresses the importance of a child’s physical development
as a vital piece to their overall development and education.
Component concepts in this domain include: gross motor development,
fine motor development and personal health and safety.
Indicators for Physical Development
and Health for three year olds include:
Indicators for Physical Development
and Health for four year olds include:
Indicators for Physical Development
and Health for five year olds include:
Parents can help children the Physical
Development and Health domain by:
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Setting up obstacle
course for children to use different gross motor skills
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Playing ball with children-catching,
kicking and throwing
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Providing a variety
of small manipulative toys for children to play with-legos,
pegs in pegboard, puzzles that have increasing difficulty
levels as they are ready
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Providing art materials
for children to practice cutting, pasting, painting and
drawing
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Reminding children
to pick up their toys so that they will not get broken
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Giving children the
extra time children may need to wash their hands, put
on their coats and shoes themselves
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Allowing children to
help with household chores they are able to such as wiping
the tables, getting the bread out for lunch, helping to
pour the milk
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Asking children to
try different ways to move their paintbrushes on the paper,
cut with scissors, stack the blocks
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Eating healthy snacks
and discussing healthy and unhealthy food
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Being a model of good
health and of safety practices-discussing why it is important
that everyone buckle up their seat belt or go to the Dr
for checkups
The physical development and health
domain refers to children’s fine motor and gross motor development
as well as the broader issues of health and safety.
The performance indicators listed above are form the Work Sampling
System Omnibus Guidelines. For more information on the Work
Sampling System, go to
http://www.pearsonearlylearning.com/index.html
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