Here are some suggestions to get you started:
- Visit the haveaballtogether.ca website to increase your knowledge
- Share this presentation with colleagues or other parents
- Create a tip sheet or newsletter article to share with members of your community
- Implement a ‘tip of the day’
- Put up pictures of children being active
- Develop a weekly program plan which includes structured and unstructured physical activity
- Incorporate some of the modification recommendations into activities you use
- Purchase some non-traditional equipment
- Try a new physical activity every day for a week
- And if you are a professional, develop physical activity guidelines or a policy for your setting
Course Menu
- Physical Activity and Early Childhood: Building Lifelong Habits
- Learning Objectives
- About the Best Start Resource Centre
- Theory Review – Move / Sweat / Step
- Theory Review – Sleep
- Theory Review – Sit / Screen Time
- Theory Review – Benefits
- Physical Activity for Infants (0-18 months)
- Activity Ideas for Infants
- Physical Activity for Toddlers (1.5 – 2.5 years old)
- Activity Ideas for Toddlers
- Physical Activity for Preschoolers (2.5 – 4 years old)
- Activity Ideas for Preschoolers
- Physical Activity for Kindergarten-aged Children (4-6 years old)
- Activity Ideas for Kindergarten-aged Children
- Tips for Families
- Tips for Families
- Tips for Professionals
- Tips for Professionals
- Tips for Physical Activity
- Modification Ideas
- Modification Ideas
- Modification Ideas
- Equipment Suggestions
- Website Review
- Personal Action Planning
- Personal Action Planning
- Thank You