Hobby Horsing USA Programs

Standards Connections for Physical Education & Dance

Physical Literacy Standards

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

Hobby Horsing USA:

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

National Dance Standards Supported

Hobby Horsing USA supports dance standards by:

• 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.