Mapeh (P.E) 4th Quarter

• Fundamental Skills - Practical skills that a child need for living and being which are sometimes considered basic or functional
• Locomotor - Movements that allot you to move from one point in space to another
• Locos - Place
• Motor - Movement
• Step - Transfer of weight from one foot to the other
• Walk - Series of steps executed by both of your feet
• Run - Series of walk executed quickly in any direction where in only one foot stays on the ground while the other is off the ground.
• Leap - Spring from one foot and land at the other foot in any direction
• Jump - Having feet loose contact with the ground
• Non-Locomotor - Performed in one point in space without transferring to another point
• Flexion - Decreasing the angle of a joint, to bend
• Extension - Increasing the angle of a joint, stretching
• Contraction - Muscle movement, tightens, using sufficient amount of energy in the execution
• Release - Opposite of contraction
• Collapse - To delibrately drop the exertion of energy into a body segment
• Recover - Opposite of collapse, to regain the energy into a body segment
• Rotation - Move a body segment allowing it to complete a circle with it’s motion
• Twist - To move a body segment from an axis halfway (front,back,left,right)
• Pivot - To change the position of the feet or any body part that carries the body weigth ( to turn 360 degress)
• Turn - Turning movement with a base of support
• Manipulative Skills - Skills developed when handling an object