Hobby Horsing USA
Standards Connections for Physical Education & Dance
Physical Eductaion Literacy Standards Supported
Standard 1: The physically literate individual demonstrates competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns.
Standard 2: The physically literate individual applies knowledge of concepts, principles, strategies and tactics related to movement and performance.
Standard 3: The physically literate individual demonstrates the knowledge and understanding of physical activity and fitness.
Standard 4: The physically literate individual exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.
Standard 5: The physically literate individual recognizes the value of physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction.
National Physical Education Standards Supported
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- Encourages students to demonstrate competency in a variety of motor skills and movement patterns
- Helps students to gain an understanding of the benefits of physical activity
- Demonstrates to students the benefits in participating in regular physical activity
- Encourages being physically fit
- Enables students to develop body control
- Builds student strength, endurance and flexibility
Hobby Horse Locomotor Movement Learning for – Kindergarten
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- Travel within a group
- Forward, back, sideways, changing direction, straight, curved, zig zag
- Fast and slow
- Engages in a variety of locomotor skills with increasing levels of learning
- Rhythmic skills
- Move at a steady beat
- Balance Skills
- Body Management
- Jump over stationary rope (Noodle)
Hobby Horse Locomotor Movement Learning for – Grade 1
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- Awareness of space boundaries, moving in different directions
- Travel around fixed objects
- Change speed, tempo, rhythm
- Locomotor skills include hopping, jumping, galloping, sliding, and skipping
- Engages in a variety of locomotor skills with increasing levels of learning
- Leap, jump, and hop landing on 1 foot
- Rhythmic skills
- Create movements to music and rhythms
- Balance Skills
- Body Management
- Jump over stationary rope (Noodle)
Hobby Horse Locomotor Movement Learning for – Grade 2
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- Same as Grade 1
- Learn proper form for skipping
- Engage in simple dances
- Engages in a variety of locomotor skills with increasing levels of learning
- Jump for distance
- Leap with proper form
- Rhythmic skills
- Simple dance movements
- Balance on one foot while manipulating an object
Hobby Horse Locomotor Movement Learning for – Grades 3-5
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- Combines varied locomotor skills in a variety of tasks
- Transfers weight from 1 foot to another
- Learn enhanced balance and coordination
- Learn choreographed locomotor skill movements
- Develops more complicated locomotor skills
- Performs locomotor skills that will increase heart rate
- Develops an understanding for warm up and cool down needs relative to the physical activities performed
- Learn to respect others while performing physical activities
- Demonstrate safe behaviors performing with others
- Creatively manipulate locomotor skill activities
- Create locomotor skill self-expression
National Dance Standards Supported
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- Utilizing dance choreography with locomotor movements and music.
- Performing, connecting and responding to dance instructions
- Connecting Dance with Physical Education
- Allowing for student driven creative movement sequences and music choices.
- Recall and demonstrated body awareness through specific dance elements individually and as part of a group.
- Creating an awareness for personal and general space needed for physical activities
- Performing dance sequences of beginning, middle and end.
- Perform simple, short and repetitive dances using locomotor skills
- Moving to the rhythms and changes of tempos.
- Consistently recall positions, movements and steps
- Execute dance and locomotor movements to different beats, rhythms and tempos.