Learning Through Movement and Active Play in the Early Years ─ A Practical Resource for Professionals and Teachers

This resource contains ideas for supporting children’s well-being, learning, and physical, brain, and social and emotional development through movement and physical activity. Focusing on children ages three to seven, it explains how movement underpins cognitive learning, brain development, social skills, and well-being, and provides information, ideas, tools, and tips for creating activities to help children learn through movement and being active, in the areas of math and numeracy; language, literacy, and communication; personal, social, and emotional development; knowledge and understanding of the world; expressive arts, design, and creative development; spiritual, moral, and cultural development; and risk taking and risky play. It also addresses the role of environments in the learning experience. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Tania Swift is the founder of BInspired, a training company for practitioners delivering physical activity to children. She has 15 years' experience training and supporting practitioners in early years physical development, health education and outdoor education during which time she set up and ran a Children's Centre and been commissioned to develop multiple training packages for local authorities and NHS Trust.