Kindergarten PE Missouri Standards

Demonstrate safe use of general and personal space.

Demonstrate manipulative skills in a stationary position (e.g., rolling, throwing, catching, kicking).

Identify relationship with body parts (e.g., left hand to left shoulder, right elbow to left knee).

Manipulative Skills

Non-Locomotor

Demonstrate how to seek adult help when an injury has occurred (e.g., playground, field trips, lunch room).

Demonstrate simple movements to music (e.g., march to beat).

Personal Fitness and Healthy Active Living

Fundamental Movement Skills and Games

Body Systems

Demonstrate the correct form of three locomotor skills (e.g., walk, run, jump, hop, gallop).

Efficiency of Human Movement and Performance

Locomotor

Health-Related and Skill-Related Fitness

Tell what it means to be fit.

Developmental Games

Demonstrate the ability to share, be cooperative and safe with others.

Prevention

Essential Elements of Rhythm

Responsible Personal and Social Behavior in the Physical Activity Setting

Demonstrate the ability to use your body as a means of expression (e.g., snowman melting).

Demonstrate the concept of beat/rhythm pattern as it applies to music and movement (e.g., clap, drum).

Rhythms and Dance

Recognize the difference between general and personal space.

Personal/Social Responsibilities

Body Management

Demonstrate introductory individual stunts (e.g., crab walk, bear walk, inch worm).

Demonstrate the difference between slow and fast movement when performing locomotor movements.

Physical Activity and Lifetime Wellness

Demonstrate chasing, fleeing, dodging.

Demonstrate cooperation with partners and small groups to accomplish a game objective.

Identify major body parts (e.g., head, neck, arm, shoulders, elbow, legs, knee, hip, feet, back, fingers, toes).

Injury Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation

Demonstrate selected non-locomotor skills (e.g., push, pull, bend, twist, stretch, turn).

Creative/Interpretive

Demonstrate ways to balance on different body parts at different levels.

Treatment

Movement Concepts