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Abstract: The dance blends music and movement, allowing children to discover the magic of both and to develop harmoniously. It is important for this activity not to be considered only a simple entertainment. Dance is a good way to exercise, to stimulate imagination and to help the children to have a good social life as well. Dance provides children a harmonious development of their body, elegance and grace of movement, shape their character and stimulate attention, patience and discipline. The present research aimed to verify the effectiveness of a physical activity program designed with the specific means of dance, adapted to the particularities of children aged between 4 and 6 years. We assumed that the deployment of an organized program of physical activity among preschool children between 4 and 6 year olds, using exercises specific for dance will improve the motor memory of children and also the children''s ability to reproduce structures having a complexity closed to the future requirements of a dancer. This research was conducted between 15.XI.2010 - 10.XII.2010 on actual children from three kindergartens in the Cluj-Napoca. Subjects participating in this research were initially evaluated, before the implementation of specific designed program and finally, at the end of research. Following analysis of data we found that the program proposed by us improved the motor memory and the children''s ability to reproduce structures having a complexity closed to the future requirements of a dancer. We are satisfied with improvements in motor ability of children that participated at our program. We hope that this research is an aid to other researchers in the field of physical activities with preschoolers, and an incentive for practitioners who work daily with children between 4-6 years.
Keywords: dance, physical activity, preschool, kindergarten, development |
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