Key Goals: Ready Steady Move! Activities for Children

This page gives you a general understanding of key goals of the program, which are both realistic and attainable for children within our teaching age range. 

The full structure of the Ready-Steady-Move curriculum is far more complex than can be outlined here. This is a general overview of the key program goals for Ready-Steady-Move:

Key Movement Goals

• Engaging in moderate to vigorous exercise, so children may profit from the physical and mental benefits it provides
• Improving children’s coordination, flexibility, balance, strength, and body control
• Increasing body awareness by exploring varied movement possibilities and utilizing different parts of the body with respect to space, force and time
• Laying the foundation for proper body relaxation, breathing and stretching techniques
• Raising children’s level of self-confidence, by providing them with the opportunity to contribute their own personal movement ideas in each session
• Deepening children’s awareness of their own body’s boundaries, while developing their understanding of both personal space and group space
• Stimulating children’s tactile and sensory perception

Key Language Goals

• Introducing and reinforcing children’s basic English or target language vocabulary within a wide variety of subjects including: animals, body parts, colors, directions, emotions, food, numbers, opposites, physical actions, forms of locomotion, questions and answers, and more
• Fostering openness and positive associations regarding the English or target language, in order to facilitate current and future language learning
• Offering children the possibility of learning English or target language directly, rather than through translation from their mother tongue
• Increasing children’s confidence in their own ability to learn and speak a second language
• Allowing children exposure to the sounds (phonetics) of English at an early age, in order to minimize their accent at later stages in life

Key Music Goals

• Introducing children to a wide range of musical styles in order to encourage and expand their appreciation
• Helping to improve children’s sense of rhythm, through movements designed to match varying musical tempos