Your child demonstrates more advanced movement patterns. Balancing, flexibility, twisting, turning, galloping, jumping and other movements is done with ease. You will see her doing a combination of these movements to form a pattern in different scenarios. She has an understanding of what these movements mean and can describe them.
When she is pursuing an organized sport, she will learn from her coach different components of a fitness regime. Proper warm up, moderate to intense physical activity, in between breaks and cool down. The goal is to enjoy the challenge of doing new and more advanced movement patterns coupled with fitness activities.
What you need to know
As your child gets into a regular sports activity that’s challenging, engaging and intense, nutrition and adequate sleep become even more crucial for her to do well.
Participating in school sports events is a good platform for her to exhibit the challenging movement patterns and gain confidence. For instance in gymnastics, tennis, etc.
