What Does Ready Steady Move! Give Your Child?
Ready Steady Move! has three main benefits for children: it encourages basic fitness through a fun movement routine; it promotes language learning; and it builds self-confidence. By combining these three, Ready Steady Move! creates a unique learning environment that stimulates the mind and body together.
The movement and language components of Ready Steady Move! offer a series of benefits to your child:
Movement Program:
- Engage in moderate to vigorous exercise
- Encourage proper body relaxation through breathing and stretching
- Practice coordination, flexibility, balance and strength
- Explore body awareness through varied movements
- Develop an awareness of personal and group space
- Improve the sense of rhythm
Language Program:
- Increase children’s confidence in their ability to learn and speak a second language
- Introduce basic target language vocabulary in a wide range of subjects
- Expose children to target language phonetics, to encourage proper accent
- Demonstrate the target language directly, rather than by translation