ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a curriculum framework to guide PreK-2nd grade learners who would begin the physical literacy journey to Milestone 1, “all physical movements have a purpose” to experience the human movement from birth to mid-childhood. The goal is to provide a child development perspective to show that physical movement is an innate human need with purpose even at the time of birth. By focusing on the characteristics of human movement from birth to 5 years of age, the chapter presents, with details on movement themes, the characteristics of the enduring (life) and the transient (immediate movement needs) dimensions as envisioned in such a curriculum. From a development perspective, the proposed framework features the fundamental movement patterns from birth to 5 years with a description of their voluntary (conscious) as well as involuntary (subconscious) purposes. The description further breaks down the ideas by organizing the features into content themes and discusses the theme regarding content focus and learning tasks. The meaning of voluntary and involuntary movement patterns at this young age are explored and their associated concepts are illustrated and discussed. A hypothetical curriculum framework is presented at the end of the chapter to provide a graphic display of the components organized in the two-dimensional framework.
