Video Transcript
Narrator: In the Perceptual and Motor Development domain, the strand Motor Development includes the foundation Gross Motor Development. Children from 23 through 36 months coordinate their large muscle groups in increasingly complex ways to move and explore.
Example 1
Text on screen: Coordinates large muscle groups in more complex ways
On screen: 28-month-old Sequoia is arranging ride-on toys. He walks quickly through a play yard toward a toy car. He pushes it from the back and squeezes it past a toy truck into an open grassy area. He walks back to the truck and picks up a small toy school bus. He carries it with one hand and drops it next to the car.
Sequoia walks back to the truck. He pushes it from the back. Then he pulls back on it at an angle so it turns to the left. He continues pushing it to line up with the car. Its wheel catches on the car, and Sequoia pulls it back and tries again. The wheel bumps the car again. Sequoia walks around to the side of the black car and tries to shove it forward, but it doesn’t move.
Example 2
Text on screen: Coordinates large muscle groups in more complex ways
On screen: 35-month-old Bill, in an outdoor play area, runs and kicks a ball, while his caregiver watches.
Caregiver 1: Wooo! More, more more.
On screen: Bill runs to the ball. He quickly squats down and picks up the ball. He stands up, lifting it over his head.
Caregiver 1: My turn?
On screen: Bill picks up the ball and throws it to his caregiver.
Caregiver 1: Ready?
On screen: The caregiver kicks the ball across the yard and Bill runs after it. He picks up the ball and throws it at a small cone. He picks it up again and throws it at another cone further away, knocking it down.
Bill: You’re ok (laughing).
Bill: Oh, again.
Caregiver 1: Are you knocking them over?
On screen: Bill runs and picks up the ball again, throwing it at another cone, knocking it down.
Bill: Yes. Oh, down.
Caregiver 1: All right!
On screen: Bill runs to the ball, picks it up again and knocks yet another cone down.
Example 3
Text on screen: Coordinates large muscle groups in more complex ways
On screen: 36-month-old Yudi rides a push tricycle on a small bridge in a play yard. She stands to try to walk the tricycle partially up the bridge. When she sits, the tricycle rolls back down. She tries again from the base of the bridge and rolls back again.
Sitting on the tricycle, Yudi pushes back several feet from the bridge. She rides the tricycle forward, stopping at the base of the bridge. She stands and walks the tricycle all the way the top of the bridge. She pauses for a moment. Then she coasts forward down the other side of the bridge. The tricycle stops, and Yudi climbs off, swinging one leg back and over the seat.
Example 4
Text on screen: Coordinates large muscle groups to move and explore.
On screen: On an outdoor playground, 33-month-old Carla and 35-month-old Adali are playing chase. Carla runs across sandy ground and climbs the curved stairs of a play structure. She runs across a platform and goes down a set of straight steps, holding the railing. She jumps off the last step.
Adali: Carla, come get me!
On screen: Adali is up on the climbing structure. She begins to run towards the straight steps, going down them, with Carla chasing after her.
Carla: I’m gonna get you.
Adali: Can’t get me.
Caregiver 2: Careful, careful.
Adali: Carla can’t get me.
On screen: Carla stops at the end of the stairs and crawls through the open-sided railing. Once on the ground, she starts running after Adali again.
Caregiver 3: Hurry, Adali, hurry. Uh-oh.
On screen: The scene shifts to show Adali running across the play structure. She slides down the slide and runs around the structure.
Carla and Adali: (laughing and yelling)
On screen: Carla quickly slides down after her and chases her across the large playground area.
Caregiver 2: Carla’s getting you?
Adali: (yelling)
Carla: (yelling)
Child: Run, Adali, run!
Caregiver 3: Get her, Carla. Get Adali.