A Selection Of Gymnastic Exercises Suitable For Children In Elementary Schools

Author : Fanny L. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781331196938
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Educational Gymnastic Play for Little Folks (Classic Reprint) written by Fanny L. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Educational Gymnastic Play for Little Folks A vacancy seems to exist in physical education between the play of the kindergarten and the regular gymnastic work of the school, and it is in the hope that this little book will help to furnish the needed connection that it has been prepared by the authors. The Swedish system of educational gymnastics, as set forth in "Special Kinesiology," by Baron Nils Posse, forms the basis of our work, but Baron Posse's further teaching, concerning exercises for little folks, and our own experience, have led us to diverge somewhat from the order which he adopts in his progressive lists and to intersperse other exercises. We present here only those classes of movements that correspond to the stage of development through which the child is passing during his first two years in the primary school, and have culled from those classes the gymnastic exercises best suited to the needs of the little child. With the technical name of each movement we have furnished a description, to aid the uninitiated, and also the name of an animal, object, or action which the movement suggests. Little children should forget their bodies while performing physical exercises, and to induce this forgetfulness they must have in mind a picture of something extraneous to themselves which they are to represent. These representations appeal to the imagination of the little ones who are perfectly happy while playing they are ducks, chickens or statues. Left to themselves, children will play at being all of these things and a thousand more, the difference in this directed play being, that the teacher has a definite purpose in the selection of movements, the sequence of these in the day's lesson, and their progression from one lesson to another. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.