Region 5 - Physical Development: Perceptual-Motor Skills and Movement Concepts

Understand why physical development is included in California’s Preschool Learning Foundations and Curriculum Framework.  Perceptual-motor coordination is the process of receiving, interpreting, and using information from all the body’s senses (visual, auditory touch, smell, taste and kinesthetic) to carry out the physical output (a coordinated movement).  Movement concepts provide cognitive awareness of movement. Knowledge about what, where, how the body is moving.