Pandatime

Here is a list of some of the concepts we use in kindergym programs:

Balance – the ability to maintain or in some cases, regain body position.

Bilaterality – using both sides of the body together in the same motion.

Body awareness - a child’s awareness of their body with respect to the identification and movement of various bodily parts.

Cross pattern – movement of opposite arm and leg simultaneously.

Depth perception – the visual perception of the distance between an object and its observer.

Directionality - spatial awareness of up, down, front, back, sideways, etc.

Eye-hand co-ordination - the ability of the eye and hand to work together to produce a manual task.

Fine motor – the use of small muscles of the body particularly eyes and hands to do academic tasks.

Fixation- the eye’s ability to focus on an object.

Gross-motor – the use of the large muscles of the body , particularly the arms and legs in co-ordination movement to accomplish certain motor skills.

Kinesthetic – internal neuro-muscular sense of recalling from past experiences where the body parts are and how to move them

Laterality – internal sense of one side of the body is different from the other particularly left and right concepts.

Listening skills – the ability to hear sounds and to interpret those sounds into a physical or motor action.

Midline – moving the eyes, hands, arms, feet or legs across the midline of the body without the use of other bodily parts such as the head, the trunk or the opposite limb.

Spatial relationships – one’s position in space and the relationship of other people, objects in that space with respect to size, shape etc.

Unilateral – the unison movement of the arm and leg on one side of the body.

Visual-motor co-ordination – the combining of the body and visual processes into co-ordinated movement .