Munch & Move

This is evident when children:

• recognise and communicate their bodily needs (for example, thirst, hunger, rest, comfort, physical activity).
• are happy, healthy, safe and connected to others.
• engage in increasingly complex sensory-motor skills and movement patterns.
• combine gross and fine motor movement and balance to achieve increasingly complex patterns of activity including dance, creative movement and drama.
• use their sensory capabilities and dispositions with increasing integration, skill and purpose to explore and respond to their world.
• demonstrate spatial awareness and orient themselves, moving around and through their environments confidently and safely.
• manipulate equipment and management tools with increasing competence and skill respond through movement to traditional and contemporary music, dance and storytelling.
• show an increasing awareness of healthy lifestyles and good nutrition.
• show increasing independence and competence in personal hygiene, care and safety for themselves and others.
• show enthusiasm for participating in physical play and negotiate play spaces to ensure the safety and wellbeing of themselves and others.

Educators promote this learning by:

• plan for and participate in energetic physical activity with children, including dance, drama, movement and games.
• draw on family and community experiences and expertise to include familiar games and physical activities in play.
• provide a wide range of tools and materials to resource children’s fine and gross motor skills.
• actively support children to learn hygiene practices.
• promote continuity of children’s personal health and hygiene by sharing ownership of routines and schedules with children, families and the community.
• discuss health and safety issues with children and involve them in developing guidelines to keep the environment safe for all.
• engage children in experiences, conversations and routines that promote healthy lifestyles and good nutrition.
• consider the pace of the day within the context of the community.
• model and reinforce health, nutrition and personal hygiene practices with children.
• provide a range of active and restful experiences throughout the day and support children to make appropriate decisions regarding participation.